My special interest and research paper on attachment relationships consolidated my view that a Systemic approach to the individual, couple and family interlinked with Attachment theory can empower the person to empathically accept their situation and enable lasting change to emerge. I believe that a healthier, balanced couple and family can bring so much more to an individual and the couple and the nurturing can be reciprocal and growth enabling. An available and responsive partner creates a holding environment for intimacy to grow securely.

Derek has further studied with Dr. Kent Hoffman (one of the originators of Circle of Security) the advanced subtleties and core sensitivities of the anxiety present in a marriage where circular dissatisfaction has become the pattern. This may be felt as resentment, anger, distrust, sexual frustration, fear and loneliness.

Derek has helped many couples and parents (and hence children) move from a disorganised unsatisfying relationship to a more stable secure thriving and safe environment.

Derek also works with men who are abusive and controlling in their intimate relationships.

He is the seventh son of the seventh and in his native Ireland, this makes Derek a mystical soulful healer: the very meaning of Psychotherapy; healing of the soul.

Becoming new parents can be a very stressful time for couples, fraught with not only the intimate partner issues, but changing identity which impacts the couple.

Elizabeth is highly skilled at providing individual therapy that is aligned and relevant to the client's needs and growth, envisioning for them a healthy future.