Madeleine Connolly - Family Therapist & Senior Social Worker
MSc. Systematic Psychotherapy; BA(hone) SocSc / NQSW, BAECCE, Dip.SocCare.Dip,Mont.Ed
Registered Bodies: CORU: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulating Body, Family Therapy Association of Ireland, Irish Council of Psychotherapists
I have experience of providing assessment and therapy in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for over ten years. I provide support for parents and therapy for children and adolescents, who experience emotional and behavioural difficulties.
I have worked for over twenty years as a provider, lecturer, supervisor and trainer in the Early Childhood Care and Education Sector, supporting quality care and relationships between children and their carers/parents.
My approach: I use an integrated approach with families with the aim of providing a space for individuals, couples and families to explore problems and issues from different perspectives in working towards improving their quality of life and relationships. I also offer counselling support and parenting strategies with the aim of improving parent-child, peer and sibling relationships. I take a family systems approach of exploring problems from a variety of perspectives towards a greater understanding of how patterns of communication and family interactions develop and contribute to the maintenance of problem behaviours.
Evidence based Parenting Programmes: Supporting parents with promoting positive behaviours. Including parents whose children experience separation anxiety and/or difficulties with peer relations, also, children who have a diagnosis of ASD, ADHD or who are experiencing school refusal.
Infant Mental Health Perinatal Support: Psychotherapeutic support for parents.
Parenting when separated: I work with parents who are preparing for, going through or have gone through a separation or divorce. This work includes helping parents to solve co-parenting problems in a positive way which focuses on the needs of the child/children. I support parents to help their child cope with the emotional and practical impact of the separation.
Child to parent Violence/Challenging Behaviour: Parents can feel controlled, intimidated or threatened by their child’s verbally or physically abusive behaviours. Parents often feel they must adapt their own behaviour because of their child’s threats or use of violence, the non-violent resistance (NVR) approach empowers and supports parents in preventing and responding to these behaviours whilst improving their relationship with their child/adolescent.
ASCEND: Living with Autism: Understanding Autism, sibling work, family work.
Madeleine practices from our office at 93 George's St Lower, Dun Laoghaire.
Phone: +353 (0) 86 2753559
E-mail: madeleineconnollytherapy@gmail.com
I have worked for over twenty years as a provider, lecturer, supervisor and trainer in the Early Childhood Care and Education Sector, supporting quality care and relationships between children and their carers/parents.
My approach: I use an integrated approach with families with the aim of providing a space for individuals, couples and families to explore problems and issues from different perspectives in working towards improving their quality of life and relationships. I also offer counselling support and parenting strategies with the aim of improving parent-child, peer and sibling relationships. I take a family systems approach of exploring problems from a variety of perspectives towards a greater understanding of how patterns of communication and family interactions develop and contribute to the maintenance of problem behaviours.
Evidence based Parenting Programmes: Supporting parents with promoting positive behaviours. Including parents whose children experience separation anxiety and/or difficulties with peer relations, also, children who have a diagnosis of ASD, ADHD or who are experiencing school refusal.
Infant Mental Health Perinatal Support: Psychotherapeutic support for parents.
Parenting when separated: I work with parents who are preparing for, going through or have gone through a separation or divorce. This work includes helping parents to solve co-parenting problems in a positive way which focuses on the needs of the child/children. I support parents to help their child cope with the emotional and practical impact of the separation.
Child to parent Violence/Challenging Behaviour: Parents can feel controlled, intimidated or threatened by their child’s verbally or physically abusive behaviours. Parents often feel they must adapt their own behaviour because of their child’s threats or use of violence, the non-violent resistance (NVR) approach empowers and supports parents in preventing and responding to these behaviours whilst improving their relationship with their child/adolescent.
ASCEND: Living with Autism: Understanding Autism, sibling work, family work.
Madeleine practices from our office at 93 George's St Lower, Dun Laoghaire.
Phone: +353 (0) 86 2753559
E-mail: madeleineconnollytherapy@gmail.com