• Embarking on the Mist Filled Path

    NEW! OCTOBER 19, 2025 | 4 HOUR WORKSHOP & COURSE

    The Journey of Individuation- Sacred Time and the Numinous

    Together, we’ll explore how the shadow is shaped in childhood, how it carries the imprint of family and ancestral story, and how turning toward it with compassion and curiosity becomes a gateway to greater depth, freedom, and inner truth…

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  • Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld

    New! Encountering the Numinous  | 6 Part Series

    Rooted in the wisdom of the Gaelic Otherworld, this series is an immersion into ancestral ‘deep’ time and the numinous, interweaving insights from Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy to support your exploration of the hidden terrain of the psyche on your own journey of individuation…

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  • A Journey Inward

    Self-Abandonment Wound | Online Course Series

    A Journey Inward is a series of online courses that explore the Self-Abandonment Wound and how to support yourself in healing the wound of unworthiness and embracing life—mind, body, and spirit.

    Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit
    The Cailleach's Descent to the Underworld
    Resting Under Brigid's Mantle
    Awakening Bealtaine
    Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa

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  • Returning to the Well

    Healing the Mother Wound | Online Course Series

    In this series, we journey into the depths of the Mother Archetype—perhaps the most universally recognised archetype of the feminine across cultures. In Jungian psychology, she is the great symbol of nurture, protection, compassion, and the life-giving force that sustains us. Mother is not only personal—she is mythic, ancestral, and collective.

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  • Deepening the Senses

    Deepening the Senses is an immersive, transformative experience, a space of exploration where we build connections and reconnect with our inner world and soul self.

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  • Cultivating Sanctuary

    Join the Deepening The Senses Mailing List to receive access to the Cultivating Sanctuary Guided Visual Meditation.

    ✓ Create Your Sanctuary Tutorial
    ✓ 15 Minute Guided Meditation with Video
    ✓ Companion E-Workbook + Journal Invitations
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  • Depth Work & Psychotherapy

    I aim to provide a compassionate space where difficult and sometimes painful experiences and emotions can be heard, felt and healed. A space for you to feel welcomed and understood. A space to explore and deepen curiosity and wonder at your inner world and embark on a journey of self-understanding and deeper connection, that can lead to personal growth and empowerment.

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Deepening the Senses is an immersive, transformative experience, a space of exploration where we build connections and reconnect with our inner world and soul self through the Ancient Gaelic world. 

It is a facilitated space of guided ritual, deep reflection, and learning. Deepening the Senses is cultivated with care and honed over many years to create an intentional space where we cross into the inner realms, responding to the call of the soul, and drop down into the ‘subtle body,’ which speaks to us in the language of metaphor, symbol, and images. The Deepening the Senses experience shares knowledge, skills, and resources from depth psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, literature, and art with you in an accessible, practical, and creative way. It weaves a visceral tapestry of experience, incorporating embodiment practices, rich visual meditations on images, music, poetry, stories, Irish mythology, and songs, and memorable sweeping images and footage of the beautiful Irish landscape.  Deepening the Senses is intended as a voyage of soul and discovery, where we explore what Patrick Kavanagh, the Irish poet, called “the true Gods of sound and stone”.  Here, we can catalyse the change and transformation we need in our lives, expanding our understanding and experience of our inner world and soul selves.

About

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin

BSocSc, MA Social Work, MA Psychotherapy, Dip Supervision, Dip Jungian Psychology, Certified Coach (WCI)

I am a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor, and Personal Development Coach with over 20 years of experience. I work internationally and am dual-located in the US and Ireland (in Northern Nevada and on the West Coast of Ireland, in Connemara). I work from a Jungian and depth-oriented perspective, integrating Jungian Psychology, Psychodynamic and somatic therapies. 

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 Gaeilge (Irish) speaking community where Gaeilge is my first language, and 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.

My work interweaves the Gaelic (Irish) World and Otherworld with Jungian Depth Psychology. The Gaelic world, with its symbols, language, myth, folklore, literature and heritage, becomes a doorway through which you can enter and explore your own inner landscape. I desire to share with you a felt sense of that ancient culture and spirit and, as a Psychotherapist, support how that connection can nourish and guide you on your personal development journey.

Online Course Series

A Journey Inward

A Journey Inward is a series of online courses that explore the Self-Abandonment Wound and how to support yourself in healing the wound of unworthiness and embracing life—mind, body, and spirit.

  • Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit

    Healing the Wounds of the Abandoning Self

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  • The Cailleach's Descent to the Underworld

    Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country

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  • Resting Under Brigid’s Mantle

    Cultivating Sanctuary and Self Compassion in Daily Life

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  • Awakening Bealtaine

    Embracing Our Authentic Power
    A Celebration of Granuaile

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  • Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa

    Taking Your Seat at the Banquet of Life

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Inner Depth Work

I work in a process-orientated, holistic and integrative way, creating a space to explore how our past belief patterns, experiences, and unconscious can interrupt us in the here-and-now moments of our lives. Creating awareness in the body, noticing and exploring thoughts, feelings, sensations, beliefs, images, and memories, can support us in understanding the roots of complex issues and how these often unconscious processes and our past trauma can interrupt us and our life potential.

If you are interested in deepening into this work on an individual level, you are very welcome to explore my website to learn about my Inner Depth Work and Psychotherapy Practice.

Individual Services

Latest Reflections

Macneamh | Reflections
The Healing Power of the Numinous and the Sacred
Otherworld, Numinous
The Healing Power of the Numinous and the Sacred
Otherworld, Numinous
Otherworld, Numinous
Scéalta, “Stories” - Seeing into the Darkness
Focail Gaeilge
Scéalta, “Stories” - Seeing into the Darkness
Focail Gaeilge
Focail Gaeilge
The Summer Solstice in Connemara
The Summer Solstice in Connemara
The Emotion of Guilt and the Mother Wound
Returning to the Well, Mother Wound
The Emotion of Guilt and the Mother Wound
Returning to the Well, Mother Wound
Returning to the Well, Mother Wound
What is the Gaelic Otherworld?
Walking Between Worlds
What is the Gaelic Otherworld?
Walking Between Worlds
Walking Between Worlds
The Mythopoetic Approach to Trauma Healing
Deepening the Senses
The Mythopoetic Approach to Trauma Healing
Deepening the Senses
Deepening the Senses
Cultivating the Inner Touchstone
A Journey Inward
Cultivating the Inner Touchstone
A Journey Inward
A Journey Inward
Raftery, The Last of the Wandering Bards [Video]
Video, Poetry, Irish Writers
Raftery, The Last of the Wandering Bards [Video]
Video, Poetry, Irish Writers
Video, Poetry, Irish Writers
Mountain, Pilgrimage and a Returning Home to the Self
Mountain, Pilgrimage and a Returning Home to the Self
Living in Alignment with the Seasons
Living in Alignment with the Seasons
Born In Light
Video, Poetry
Born In Light
Video, Poetry
Video, Poetry
Celtic Winter Solstice and the Blessing of the Cailleach
Celtic Winter Solstice and the Blessing of the Cailleach
Nollaig na mBan
Nollaig na mBan
What is the Mother Wound?
What is the Mother Wound?
Irish Writers & The Symbolic Life
Irish Writers, Poetry, Walking Between Worlds
Irish Writers & The Symbolic Life
Irish Writers, Poetry, Walking Between Worlds
Irish Writers, Poetry, Walking Between Worlds
James Joyce
Video, Irish Writers
James Joyce
Video, Irish Writers
Video, Irish Writers
Eavan Boland
Video, Irish Writers
Eavan Boland
Video, Irish Writers
Video, Irish Writers
Michael Hartnett
Video, Irish Writers
Michael Hartnett
Video, Irish Writers
Video, Irish Writers
Edna O’Brien
Video, Irish Writers
Edna O’Brien
Video, Irish Writers
Video, Irish Writers
Brendan Behan
Video, Irish Writers
Brendan Behan
Video, Irish Writers
Video, Irish Writers
What is Somatic Therapy?
What is Somatic Therapy?
Samhain and the Otherworld
Video, A Journey Inward
Samhain and the Otherworld
Video, A Journey Inward
Video, A Journey Inward
The Changing Season
The Changing Season
Athrú - On the Cusp of a New Season
Focail Gaeilge, Video
Athrú - On the Cusp of a New Season
Focail Gaeilge, Video
Focail Gaeilge, Video
Poetry and the Inner World
Poetry
Poetry and the Inner World
Poetry
Poetry
The Irish Language - Speaking the Inner World
Poetry
The Irish Language - Speaking the Inner World
Poetry
Poetry
The Festival at Lúghnasadh [Video]
Video
The Festival at Lúghnasadh [Video]
Video
Video
Misneach
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Misneach
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Video, Focail Gaeilge
An Fharraige
Video, Focail Gaeilge
An Fharraige
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Cineáltas
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Cineáltas
Video, Focail Gaeilge
Video, Focail Gaeilge

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  • “Eileen is insightful, she has a remarkable aptitude for dealing with the abstract. It was fantastic. Highly recommend.”

    Sarah
    Previous Participant of the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2021

  • "Oh my goodness, Eileen. Your workshop touched me deeply. You made it safe to enter our own realm and helped us navigate. Your stories and poems helped me see and understand the process, which has never been made clear before. I feel honored to be guided by you, as my journey is just beginning. I eagerly await the rest of the series. Your style is amazing."

    Wendy - BC, Canada
    Previous Participant of the entire A Journey Inward Series

  • "I cannot recommend this wonderful retreat enough. Deepening the Senses and the pleasure of meeting Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin was life changing."

    Mary
    Previous Participant of the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2016

  • "I have found these recent gatherings likened to being wrapped in a warm, comforting blanket and curled up to listen to the music that resonates with my heart, under your gifted guidance and the company of seekers. I am looking forward to joining you again soon. Many thanks."

    Roseleen - Ireland
    Previous Participant of A Journey Inward and Deepening the Senses Workshops

  • "This workshop has been so introspective—a coming into consciousness. I love the idea of putting yourself into the way of beauty, using our perceptions to allow us to see a new way of life. I've quit crying and just feel such a sense of relief."

    Ellie
    Previous Participants of Celebrating the Harvest at Lúnasa

  • "The format is light and creative and inviting, a gentle entry to personal resonance with an ancient story, landscape, and archetypal experiences. It involves mugs of tea, blankets, and stones from the garden. A journey through landscape, Irish myths and legends. Keep cultivating this soul space."

    Noel
    Previous Participant of Resting Under Brigid's Mantle and Returning to the Hearth

  • "Eileen has created a beautiful workshop. Eileen’s style is engaging, warm, and also boundaried. She creates a wonderful, safe space while being playful and creative. I would love to do an in-person retreat or workshop sometime with Eileen."

    Ellis - Ireland
    Previous Participant of Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit

  • "It was phenomenal."

    Dominique - Ireland
    Previous Participant of Embodiment Soul and the Celtic Spirit, Returning to the Hearth and Awakening Bealtaine

  • "Wow... just...Wow... See you next month."

    Stacy - WA, USA
    Previous Participant of the entire A Journey Inward Series

  • “It was just beautiful and profound. I got so much out of it and no doubt I will continue to do so for quite awhile."

    Deirdre
    Previous Participant of the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2023

  • "Eileen has a unique style. She is true to herself, gentle yet challenging and supportive. She practices what she preaches. This workshop was for the soul. Refreshing which evokes a real sense of purpose, a divine guidance."

    Lucy
    Previous Participant in the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2020

  • "Through these workshops and Personal Development Coaching Work with Eileen, I am able to return to a more grounded deep knowing that transformation is a necessary part of life. I am finally allowing myself that grace and self compassion to grieve the aspects of myself and my life that are dying off or are no longer useful. Eileen’s style is amazing. Her empathy, intuition and gentle nature creates a supportive environment of exploring and reclaiming one’s ‘Self’."

    Heather - Canada
    Previous Participant of     The Cailleach’s Descent to the Underworld and Awakening Bealtaine

  • "Your words will live in me forever. Your presentation is so powerful, a Tsunami of history. So much coming at me, each word you spoke a thousand emotions. Music, voice, and evocative pictures stirring my soul. I did feel energized and uplifted from three hours of Awakening Bealtaine, a fire lit to welcome us home. Banshee wailing, keening a lament, calling her lost children home. She holds a lantern of shadows and light, a warm glow in the distant stars beckoning the journey to begin….Thank you Eileen for this wonderful experience, delightful and inspiring. A soulful journey of history and mystery."

    Graham - CA, USA
    Previous Participant of     Awakening Bealtaine

  • "I enjoyed the workshop very much, I thought it was presented beautifully. For someone who experienced exactly what you were sharing, it was hugely validating and comforting."

    Kelly - Guatamala
    Previous Participant of Awakening Bealtaine

  • "This changed my life and has given me the courage to start a new journey."

    Mairead - Ireland
    Previous Participant in the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2020

  • "Thanks so much for a beautiful afternoon. It was a lovely mix of visual and spoken elements which dug deep and brought up some emotions! It's been a long time since I dedicated that much time to doing something for myself and I am happy that I did. I miss my other home (Ireland) a lot and it was a delight to return there in my mind's eye through your story-telling, music and your beautifully calming voice."

    Eleanor - USA
    Previous Participant of Awakening Bealtaine

  • "I loved the encouragement to take the courage of Grace O’Malley in spite of feeling fear. I really enjoyed learning how to harness & marry masculine & feminine energies. I shall aim to carry the Workshop learning with me as I move forward, including the words in your final ‘blessing’ in the email. Your Workshop has inspired and supports me & will support me going forwards. Till next time then!"

    Vee - United Kingdom
    Previous Participant of The Returning of Light and     Awakening Bealtaine

  • "I sense my soul is smiling. Wow, working on myself has encouraged me to live my life true to me. Thank you."

    Aine - Ireland
    Previous Participant of the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2022

  • "The experience brought me to corners of my psyche I had been turning away from for 50 years- I had no awareness these wounds were even there! I was able to go there with gentle, loving curiosity, and feel those vulnerable, scary and tender parts. Before, when those parts were touched I would dissociate, or be overcome with defenses, so much that I had no awareness whatsoever of the process that was happening. I am astounded by how healing that experience was... something I did not expect! It was really amazing!"

    Sherry - WA, USA
    Previous Participant of Awakening Bealtaine

  • "My favorite was hearing the story of Grainuale, Grace O'Malley. The weaving of the story into reclaiming what is rightfully ours (or mine) was timely. From creative pursuits to my relationships to finding my place post-COVID in my community, Grace's story of authentic courage echoed deeply and emotionally. You made it safe and comfortable to share. To weave in this history and connect it to reclaiming our abandoned selves, standing up for rights, stopping oppression at all costs, sparked the fiery rebel part of my soul."

    Kathleen - MA, USA
    Previous Participant of Awakening Bealtaine

  • "I enjoyed meeting so many different people and hearing about their stories. Connecting with the Irish diaspora abroad made me realize something on a deeper level about the level of pain that the dispersed Irish carried around the world with them, not being able to 'come home'. I love Eileen's style of facilitation; it is very engaging, inclusive, and empathetic. I like how the workshop was structured and how it stayed 'on plan' while respecting everyone's time. I would highly recommend this to a friend."

    Denise - Ireland
    Previous Participant of Awakening Bealtaine

  • "Thank you so much for how you have presented and shared through each step of your presentation what is happening inside. It allows me to remember how normal and human I am! I felt like I was being guided back inward with a mirror, of how it has been for me. I also felt the strength of our ancestors and Gráinne from the beginning."

    Anne
    Previous Participant of The Returning of Light, Returning to the Hearth and Awakening Bealtaine

  • "Eileen embodies the celtic oral/aural tradition in the deepest most accepting way. The group that were called together were some of the most open hearted i have ever been blessed to meet. We changed our inner lives in the gentlest and profoundest ways. It will take some reflection to examine those ways."

    Patsy - Ireland
    Previous Participant of the Deepening the Senses Programme, 2016

  • "I enjoyed all of it. I have to say. The pace of everything was perfect. The content was absolutely excellent. Your style is truly magical. Your tone, voice, cadence, and soft facial features are very inviting, trusting, and powerful. I would like one every Sunday."

    Linda - USA
    Previous Participant of Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit

  • "I really enjoyed the beautiful images, music, stories, and poetry and continuous orientation to the body and inner felt sense. Eileen’s style is incredible, gentle, soft, inviting, empathetic, and compassionate. Thank you for a beautiful presentation. You gave me a wonderful appreciation of our island, culture, and heritage."

    Mairead - Ireland
    Previous Participant of     Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit

  • "I had a wonderful, deep and rich experience with your intermixing of stories, images, poetry and music. In the presence of so much beauty and so much mystery. I hope you will continue to offer this type of experience on any topic related to healing and growth. Your style is just wonderful. Your voice, pace, and obvious experience and command of all aspects of the workshop. Thank you so much for this marvellous and moving gift."

    Anonymous - USA

“As we look we feel the presence of a lost world. We are out of touch. We have no bridge on which to step across so many centuries.”
— Sean OFaolain ("The Irish")