“This is the beginning of a road whose end is totally unknown and totally known.”
MARION WOODMAN
Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin (Sullivan)
BSocSc, MSW, MA Psychotherapy, Dip Supervision, Dip Jungian Studies, Certified Coach (WCI)
I am a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Inner Depth Work Coach with over 20 years of experience. I am dual-located in the US and Ireland (In Northern Nevada and on the West Coast of Ireland, in Galway).
I grew up in Connemara, a wild and rugged landscape on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. Oscar Wilde famously said of the region, “Connemara is a savage beauty”. I grew up in a small, rural Gaelic (Irish) speaking community where Gaelic is still spoken today in people's homes. This area was a major centre for the work of the Irish Folklore Commission, recording endangered folklore, mythology, sean-nós (old-style) songs, and oral literature. I have been greatly influenced by the wild physical landscape and immersed in those ancient songs, stories, customs, myths, legends, and music since childhood.
I desire to share with you a sense of that culture and spirit and, as a Psychotherapist, to support how that connection can nourish and guide you on your personal development journey.
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Eileen Sullivan (Ní Shuilleabháin) (BSocSc, MSW, MA Psychotherapy, Dip Supervision, Dip Jungian Studies, Certified Coach (WCI)) is a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor. She is dual-located in the US and Ireland (In Northern Nevada and on the West Coast of Ireland, in Galway). Eileen has been in private practice for 14+ years. Eileen has 20 years of experience working with individuals and families in Adult Mental Health Services, in both acute and continuing care settings, as a Mental Health Social Worker and Psychotherapist. She was a Manager of a Mental Health Social Work Department in the Health Services in Galway City for six years. She works full-time in private practice as a Psychotherapist and International Personal Development Coach.
Her background includes a Master's in Social Science (Social Work) and a Master's in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, specializing in Psychodynamic, Existential, and Gestalt Psychotherapies. She has a diploma in Advanced Reflexive Supervision and a Diploma in Jungian Psychology. She is a certified Wellness Coach in the United States. Eileen is a fully accredited member of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP), the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP), and the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP).
Her work also reflects her additional training and experience in facilitating group work, Gestalt Body Work, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Attachment, and Emotion-Focused Therapy, as well as her interest in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Jungian Psychology, and Marion Woodman’s BodySoul rhythms work.
Eileen has completed Jungian training intensives in London and the Jungian Institute in Zurich. For six years, Eileen lectured at the National University of Ireland Galway in the School of Social Work on Mental Health and Health Promotion. She was chair of the National Special Interest Group in Mental Health Social Work for the Irish Association of Social Work from 2018 to 2020. She also provided consultation on national service development in the Irish Health Services in areas such as Specialist Peri-Natal Mental Health Services, Talk Therapies, and Self Harm presentations in Emergency Departments. She was involved in the oversight and development of a specialist Mental Health Homeless Service in Galway City between 2017 – 2022.
L’ame de la Foret (‘Soul of the Forest’) 1898 – Edgard Maxence
What does Teallach mean?
Teallach is the Gaelic word for hearth. The hearth was of central importance in Celtic society. The cottage was built around the family hearth. Turf burned continuously there day and night. This was a symbol of family continuity, where many traditional crafts were carried out. It provided warmth and nourishment and was a gathering place for story-telling and music, it symbolised an open place for hospitality to all. When it went out, it was said that the soul went out of the people of that house therefore it was only extinguished on the first of November - the traditional day of Samhain. People would then gather together to light large fires on sacred hilltops in honour of and to make offerings to the gods. In both pagan and Christian cosmologies, fire is representative of the illumination of mind and spirit and of divinity.
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
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