Online Individual Therapy in Dublin.

Dublin runs the European headquarters of half of Big Tech. The people who staff it moved for the job, and many are quietly struggling with the rest. Online, private, no waiting list.

Aaron Platt

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Individual therapy

One-on-one work on the patterns underneath. The anxiety. The stuckness. The same outcome showing up across your life.

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Couples therapy

For two people caught in the same argument. And the dynamic underneath it that neither of you can quite see.

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In short Online therapy in English in Dublin: weekly individual sessions over secure video, scheduled across time zones. Psychodynamic depth work with a US-trained therapist. You pay directly, so nothing runs through local insurance or health records. Fees and fit are covered in a free 15-minute call.

The work

The work I do is relational and focused on pattern. I don't run intake checklists. I don't assign homework. I pay attention to what happens in the session. The moments when something shifts or goes flat. The pattern that keeps showing up underneath the problem. Most people already know their own story. They still keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time, someone who can name what you cannot see from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.

The arrangement

I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately. No Irish license. No HSE involvement. No referral. No diagnosis on any record. You pay directly, in any currency. Dublin evening sessions are easy to schedule across time zones. When what you need is prescribing, assessment, or covered care, the Irish system handles that, and I will say so directly.

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.

In shortOnline psychodynamic therapy in English for internationals in Dublin. Private, outside the HSE. No Irish record and no wait.

What Dublin brings to therapy

Dublin is the EMEA headquarters town for global tech and pharma. Google, Meta, Apple, LinkedIn, the lot. It imports a young, mobile, international workforce faster than the city can house or hold it. What keeps showing up is specific. You moved for the job. The job is fine. Everything around it is hard. The housing crisis and its grinding stress. The transient colleague-friendships that dissolve when contracts end. The drinking culture that absorbs a lot and resolves none of it. And the quiet realization that you moved your whole life for a role. The role was the only part that came with a structure.

CIPC, the medical card, and the actual arithmetic

The free counselling route in Ireland is narrower than people expect. Counselling in Primary Care offers up to eight sessions, but only to medical card holders, which is income-tested and excludes most working professionals in Dublin, and it takes a GP referral with waits that commonly run three to six months. HSE primary care psychology waits in the Dublin area stretch far longer, often measured in years rather than months. The fuller picture of the Irish system is on my Ireland page.

Privately, Dublin sits at the top of the Irish market: accredited counsellors and psychotherapists commonly charge 60 to 120 euro a session, psychologists more. One thing worth knowing before you choose anyone: counselling and psychotherapy are not yet state-regulated professions in Ireland. CORU published its standards in 2025 and statutory registers are on the way, but for now accreditation with bodies like the IACP or ICP is the marker that matters, and therapy costs can qualify for Irish tax relief as a health expense.

I sit outside all of it, deliberately: a US-trained psychodynamic therapist, working privately online, with no HSE involvement, no Irish record, and no waiting list beyond my own calendar.

The HSE wait, and going private

Public mental-health care in Ireland runs through the HSE. The waits are long. Six to twelve months is common, even for locals. The private sector is where most sustained work happens. The English-speaking pool is real, but it is stretched thin by the size of the international crowd. The mechanics are on my Ireland page.

Work with me is private and online, with no HSE wait, no Irish record, and no referral.

Questions people ask from Dublin

How long is the wait for therapy through the HSE?

Public waits commonly run six to twelve months. Online with me there is no wait and no referral.

Everyone here speaks English. Why an English-speaking therapist?

The value is not language but depth, privacy, and no wait: a sustained relationship with no HSE file and no record, starting now.

Is this private and off the record?

Yes. No Irish license, no HSE involvement, no diagnosis on any record. You pay directly and it stays between us.

Counselling isn't regulated in Ireland? Really?

Not yet by the state. Anyone can currently use the titles, which is why Irish practitioners emphasise IACP or ICP accreditation. CORU's statutory registers for counsellors and psychotherapists are in progress following standards published in 2025. My own training, registrations and background are laid out in full on my professional information page, because if you cannot check a state register you should be able to check something.

The HSE route is free. Why would I pay?

It is free if you hold a medical card, which most employed internationals in Dublin do not, and even then it is eight sessions after a wait of months. If you qualify and it fits your situation, use it. People come to me for the opposite shape of thing: open-ended depth work that starts within days and stays entirely off the Irish record.

Selected research on this approach

My work is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. These are some of the studies on the effectiveness of that kind of therapy. They describe research on the method in general, and are not claims about any individual outcome.

Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378
Steinert, C., Munder, T., Rabung, S., Hoyer, J., & Leichsenring, F. (2017). Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(10), 943-953. PMID 28541091

The full reading list is on the approach page.

What Clients Say

“I came in thinking I knew what my issues were. I’d been over them a hundred times. But those were just the things I could already see. Aaron helped me notice what I couldn’t, and that’s where everything actually started to change.”

- M.J.

“I didn’t think online therapy could really work. How do you feel a connection through a screen? But I’ve done in-person therapy before, and honestly, I’ve felt more understood by Aaron than by any therapist I’ve sat across from. He listens in a way that’s hard to describe until you experience it.”

- T.L.

“A few years ago I suddenly developed prolonged panic attacks but couldn’t begin to understand what had caused them. Having been in therapy in the past, and being a counseling intern student, I felt I had exhausted my resources trying to figure out “What is wrong with me?” I can honestly say Aaron provides a form of counseling that is difficult to find anywhere else regarding efficacy. Not only has his approach been effective, but he also has provided me a safe space to explore aspects about myself I may not otherwise have felt able to. I cannot recommend him enough as he has helped me feel more myself than ever before.”

- K.R.

“I’d been in and out of therapy for years. Different therapists, different approaches, none of it really stuck. Aaron helped me understand more in a few months than all of them combined. And he talked to me like a normal person, not like all this weird therapy-speak.”

- S.A.

Completely private. No insurance, no diagnosis codes, no health registry, no GP notification, no employer visibility. You pay directly. Your therapy is between us and stays that way. More

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