That’s a wrap!By James Lloyd

Welcome to episode 31 of the Therapy Explained podcast. My guest today is Dr Art O’ Malley. Art has practiced as a medical doctor since 1990 and as a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist from 2004 until 2015 for the NHS. He is currently Head of Clinical Services with The Ely Centre based at offices in Enniskillen and Markethill in Northern …

Welcome to episode 30 of the Therapy Explained podcast. I am delighted to be joined by Dr. Melanie Lee and Bridger Falkenstien. This is a return to the show for Mel whom I spoke with in episode 14 about Cognitive Analytic Therapy and a first appearance for Bridger although he is well accustomed to the world of podcasting with his own podcasts, the …

Welcome back to a new episode of the Therapy Explained podcast. This week I am joined by Rob Ó Cobhthaigh, the co-founder of Inwardbound. Inwardbound offers psilocybin retreat programmes in the Netherlands, with pre-screening and integration processes supported by their team of facilitators. As part of our talk, Rob explains what psilocybin is and …

Welcome to episode 28 of the Therapy Explained podcast. Today we head across the pond to speak with Dr Ronald Frederick, a clinical psychologist and senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute. Ron carefully explains what AEDP is and how it came to be. Ron goes puts forwards and unpacks how AEDP is a…

Hello and welcome back to the Therapy Explained podcast. In today’s episode, I speak with Shaun Mehew about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, otherwise known as ACT. Shaun is a contextual behavioural science specialist with a particular interest in process based therapy. As part of his work, Shaun develops AI informed digital therapy products. Sha…

In today’s episode, I speak with Sinead Smyth, a couples’ therapist and Master Trainer in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Sinead is the Clinical Director of East Bay Relationship Center, California and trains clinicians in the US and Europe in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Sinead explains how the Gottman Method Couples Therapy emerged and took sh…

Thanks for joining me on the Therapy Explained podcast. This week is all about compassion as I speak with Dr Georgina Mullen about Compassion-Focused Therapy. Georgina is a clinical psychologist working at the Irish Centre for Compassion Focused Therapy in Dublin. We speak about the origins of CFT, its roots in neuroscience and attachment theory, t…

Thanks for joining me on episode 24 of the podcast, where I speak with Dr Ben Sessa. Ben is a consultant psychiatrist, psychedelic therapist and chief medical officer at Awakn Life Sciences, the UK’s first on-the-high-street provider of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Awakn is researching, developing and delivering evidence-based psychedelic me…

Welcome to episode 23 of the Therapy Explained podcast. Today I am joined by Dr David Lee, a psychologist, scientist and clinical director for Sleep Unlimited. David specialises in treating insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), considered the gold standard for treatment for insomnia. We cover the history of CBT-I, the sc…

Thanks for joining me on episode 22 of the podcast. In this episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Paul Moore, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and course director of the Masters in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and lecturer in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis in Trinity College, Dublin. Paul gave me his understanding of what psychoana…

Paul Sibson is a humanistic and integrative psychotherapist now working as a trainer for the Coherence Psychology Institute. He contributed to the book “Unlocking the Emotional Brain”, a groundbreaking publication on Memory Reconsolidation and Coherence Therapy. Today’s discussion covers the discovery of memory reconsolidation and how this shaped t…

Episode 20 sees me joined by breathwork expert Patrick McKeown. Patrick is hugely passionate about the power of the breath, in part due to the impact poor quality breathing had on his physiology in his younger years, as well as the misinformation on breathing in society at large. Patrick explains the risk mouthing breathing poses to our well-being,…

Thanks for joining me on another episode of the Therapy Explained podcast. My guest today is Behavioural Psychologist Pádraig Walsh, a specialist in applied behavioural analysis (ABA). Pádraig has a wealth of experience working with families, organisations and schools using ABA which shone through in our talk. We discussed the principles behind ABA…

Hello, welcome back to the Therapy Explained podcast. This week I am speaking with Bruce Hersey, an Internal Family Systems-Informed EMDR consultant. I am excited to share this episode as we talk about the two forms of therapy that interest me the most, Internal Family Systems, also known as IFS, and EMDR. Both therapies are trauma-informed, meanin…

Thanks for joining me on another episode of the Therapy Explained podcast. This week we're discussing craniosacral therapy, a form of bodywork consisting of remarkably light touches across the body. Joining me is Cork-based craniosacral therapist Fabrizio Vitali. Fabrizio describes his discovery of craniosacral therapy, how it was developed, its ph…

Thanks for joining me for episode 16 of the Therapy Explained podcast. Today I’m joined by Yvonne Hemming where we discuss interpersonal therapy, more commonly known as IPT. Yvonne explains what IPT is, in particular the impact current interpersonal relationships have on our mood, the different focal points of interpersonal problems (those being co…

Hello and welcome back to the Therapy Explained podcast. Today I’ll be speaking with Mindfulness teacher John Cummins. We spoke about John’s journey to mindfulness, what it was about mindfulness that lead him to want to teach it, how it can help you, the risks of the overprescription of mindfulness and some of the recommendations from John for thos…

Thanks for joining me on episode 14 of the “Therapy Explained” podcast. I’m joined by Dr Melanie Lee of Trust Psychology as we discuss cognitive analytic therapy (CAT). Mel talks through the history of CAT, how it balances structure and flexibility, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, endings in therapy and where CAT fits alongside EMDR…

Welcome to episode 13 of the Therapy Explained podcast where I speak to EMDR guru Melissa Benintendi. Now, although EMDR is a real passion of mine, this week, Melissa and I talked about a passion of hers, Reiki. We cover what Reiki is and where it comes from, where it converges with modern psychotherapies, its relationship with the placebo effect a…

Check out episode 11, where I discuss schema therapy with clinical psychologist Sarah Thompson. Sarah skilfully talks through the fascinating world of schema therapy, including its evolution, what schemas are, how we can understand what these are like when they are activated in us, the types of schemas you can typically see in men and women and Iri…

Welcome to episode 11 of the “Therapy Explained” podcast. In this week's episode, I chat with Donna Breen of Donna Breen Counselling, a counselling and CBT service based in Tipperary. Donna has over a decade of experience as a counsellor, having started in her early 20s. She explains what counselling in its essence is, the core components of counse…

On episode 10 of the Therapy Explained podcast we discuss one of the frontiers of therapy, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Joining me is Shannon Carlin, the chief of training and supervision for MDMA-assisted therapy at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, otherwise known as MAPS. MAPS are currently completing the third and final…

Welcome to episode nine of the Therapy Explained podcast. This week I’m exploring Somatic Experiencing with David Lillie, a somatic experiencing practitioner. As David explains, somatic experiencing has its roots in the observation of how animals in the wild process and recover from stress and trauma. We discuss what a typical session is like, who …

Welcome to episode eight of the Therapy Explained podcast. I am your host James Lloyd and in this week’s episode, I speak with Michael Keane, a behavioural neuroscientist. Michael is the founder of the Actualise Clinic, a Dublin based mental health service specialising in neurofeedback. During our talk, Michael explains how neurofeedback is a learn…

Welcome to episode 7 of the Therapy Explained podcast. This week I am joined by Dr Christine Dunkley, where we speak about Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT for short. Christine is from Yorkshire, England and has worked in the NHS for over 30 years, initially as a medical social worker and then a psychotherapist. She is a consultant trainer in D…

I’m joined by Alex Monk, a London based art therapist. We discuss the roots of Art Therapy, the advantages of art therapy over conventional psychotherapy, common misconceptions regarding art therapy, how it helps traverse the line between the conscious and subconscious and more. Whether you are someone who is considering art therapy as a form of th…

Episode five sees me joined by EFT practitioner and trainer Grainne O Neill. EFT stands for emotional freedom technique which is more commonly known as tapping. EFT is a technique where you tap on a specific set of acupuncture points around the body to release stress and anxiety. We spoke about Grainne’s path to becoming an EFT practitioner, how it…

In this instalment of the Therapy Explained podcast, I speak with Marie Tierney, an Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist based in Galway. IFS is a fascinating approach to psychotherapy that views our personality as having multiple subpersonalities that interact with each other as well as our true Self. We spoke about the theoretical foundations …

This week I am joined by Monika Gos, a clinical and counselling psychologist and an international Brainspotting Trainer. We talk about Brainspotting, a precise deep brain intervention that has evolved out of EMDR and can be used to treat trauma as well as enhance performance and creativity. We covered a lot of ground including how it was discovered…

In this week’s episode, I speak with Gus Murray, an integrative psychotherapist and EMDR trainer. Gus is the current president of the EMDR All-Ireland Association. We talk about EMDR, how it came to be, how it's not a silver bullet but can be extremely effective, its relationship with hypnosis and much much more. Music 'Doing It Stealthy' by Oloff …

In the inaugural episode of the Therapy Explained podcast I speak with Anne-Marie Shepherd. Anne-Marie is the founder and operator of the Centre for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Cork (www.ccbt.ie). Anne-Marie works as a CBT therapist as well as a clinical supervisor and has over a decade of experience delivering CBT. We discussed what CBT is, w…

I am excited to introduce this podcast to you and let you in on my vision for episodes to come. Although there's no shortage of podcasts out there, there is a real shortage of understanding when it comes to therapy. Join me as I interview specialists from across the field of psychotherapy to find out what different therapies are and are not. If you…