Online Individual Therapy in Ireland.

Ireland has a growing therapy sector, but finding a therapist who does sustained depth work, relational, pattern-focused, not agenda-driven, takes searching. The market is weighted toward CBT and structured short-term approaches. Many American and international English speakers here also want a therapist whose cultural reference points they don't have to explain.

I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in Ireland. Relationship difficulties, a low you can't quite name, something that's been there for years, something that's just surfaced.

What you're feeling doesn't need to be dramatic to be worth taking seriously.

The work

The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run intake checklists or assign homework between sessions; I pay attention to what happens in the session, the moments when something shifts or goes flat, and the recurring pattern underneath the presenting problem. Most people already know the story of their situation and keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.

Being in Ireland

One thing worth noting: I'm American. That brings a different therapeutic tradition than what's typical here - less structured, more interested in what's underneath and how patterns formed. Some people find that distinction matters.Ireland has a particular quality for English speakers, familiar enough that the gap is surprising when it appears. The cultural overlap is real but so are the differences, and the expectation of easy integration can make the ways it doesn't happen harder to name. It can feel petty to say you haven't quite found your footing in a country where you share the language and the general cultural register.

Dublin in particular has changed fast, expensive, crowded, transient in parts, which creates its own specific texture. The warmth is genuine. The belonging takes longer than the warmth suggests. If any of that is part of what brings you, we can work with it. If it isn't, that's fine.

Irish mental healthcare: the queue is the story

Ireland's public route runs through your GP, who can refer you to HSE Primary Care Psychology or to Counselling in Primary Care (CIPC) if you hold a medical card. The services are real and free, and the waiting lists are the national scandal that every Irish news cycle revisits: months at best, years in some areas, with children's services worst of all. Community and charity counseling (low-cost services, MyMind-style organizations) absorb some of the overflow. Statutory regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists has been formally in motion through CORU since the professions were designated, and is still being phased in, so the title rules remain looser than the UK's next door.

Private practice is therefore the default for working adults: 60 to 90 euros per session is the common Dublin range, less outside it, with accreditation through IACP or IAHIP serving as the practical quality signal. Dublin's tech-multinational population (Google, Meta, the IFSC's finance layer) has pushed demand well past supply; well-regarded private therapists in the city frequently run closed books. The Dublin page goes deeper on the HSE wait and the transplant experience. Health insurance plans (VHI, Laya, Irish Life) reimburse a limited number of counseling sessions on many policies.

Where I sit, plainly

I am a US-trained therapist working online and privately, outside the HSE, CORU's emerging register, and the Irish insurance system. My fee range matches private Dublin work. What I offer the international crowd specifically is a practice built entirely around people living outside their home country, including the particular Irish-adjacent version: the American or continental transplant for whom Ireland is friendly, fluent, rainy, and still somehow not home.

Dublin and the rest of the island

Dublin dominates: the tech corridor from the Docklands to Sandyford, the family belts of Ranelagh and Blackrock. Cork has a real second scene around pharma, Galway a smaller one. Rural Ireland and the remote-work blow-ins along the Wild Atlantic Way have scenery, community, and effectively no available therapy in any language, which is its own argument for the screen.

Country details last reviewed June 2026.

Questions people ask from Ireland

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.