About
Honorary Patron
Una McCluskey
Tina is a BACP Registered and Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and Senior Accredited Supervisor with over 35 years experience in various settings including private practice, the NHS, Further and Higher Education, and in the charitable sector. She also has significant experience in service management. She currently works in private practice as a psychotherapist, supervisor, institutional consultant and group facilitator.
Sharan Collins is an experienced professionally qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist, supervisor and group facilitator. She has previously worked in the voluntary sector as a therapist and in the establishment and management of a counselling centre in the charity sector and in higher education. She is currently a core trainer and professional programmes director on the PG Diploma in Counselling at the University of Edinburgh and chair of The Sutherland Trust which is a trust that exists to stimulate and promote psychodynamic thinking in all aspects of life, personal and professional. She has a particular interest in the relationship between shame, silence and trauma.
Jonathan Egan MA, MPsychSc, PsyD, began training with Una McCluskey in 2011 and is a member of an advanced EGCP training group. He is currently co-facilitating a training group with Una in Slovakia.
He was a director of a clinical psychology programme at University of Galway (2012-2023). His clinical work uses the EGCP model in relation to ‘being met as a person in Intensive Care’. Previously, he was a Director of Counselling for adults who experienced childhood abuse, subsequently becoming Principal Clinical Psychologist at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. He authors in relation to how a caregiver’s childhood trauma/neglect, attachment and defence styles affect their current vitality and wellbeing. Jonathan is also a practitioner member of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA).
