Providing psychotherapeutic services to children and adolescents and supervision to fellow psychotherapists working with young people.

Rachel Veerman qualified in Child Art Psychotherapy from the School of Medicine at University College Dublin in 2007 and from the School of Psychotherapy at St Vincent's University Hospital in 2019. She holds diplomas in Integrative Supervision and Jungian Psychotherapy and is trained in Trauma Therapy, CBT, Motivational Interviewing and Systemic Family Therapy.

Rachel's approach is relational, psychodynamic and person centred. She works at the pace of a young person with respect for diversity and individuation, aiming to carefully balance the need for privacy and self determination with a parent or carers need for feedback and involvement. Over the past twenty years Rachel has worked with young people experiencing a wide range of difficulties, both innate and environmental, but more often a complex and dynamic mix of inner and outer experiences. This is where the use of creativity, play and non verbal communication are of vital importance and can enable a young person to feel heard and attuned to where experiences are far beyond words.

Rachel has extensive experience working across educational systems, addiction services and the community arts, this brings expertise and depth to her work. As a Supervisor she promotes reflective practice, humility and openness. Rachel sees artistic expression as a tool with which to connect to the self, each other and the world around us. Creativity can promote development and foster an increase in communication both within the therapeutic, as well as the supervisory space providing insight and additional perspectives. 

Rachel is a registered member of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy and an accredited member of the Association of Child Art Psychotherapists, ACAP, who are a Member Organisation of both the Psychoanalytic Section of the ICP and the European Federation of Arts Therapists. She is one of the two Company Directors of ACAP and a serving member of the board of the Psychoanalytic Section of the ICP. She is a visiting lecturer and supervisor on the current four year Professional Masters Training Programme in Child Art Psychotherapy with the School of Medicine at UCD. Rachel is committed to life long  and reciprocative learning and furthering the development and training within the field of child and adolescent mental health.

For further information please visit;

https://acap.ie/

https://psychotherapycouncil.ie/therapist/rachel-veerman/

https://www.ucd.ie/courses/x997

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