The Greenane Centre

The Greenane Centre Award Winning Therapeutic Training Centre. Specialising in Post Grad Advanced CPD Training for Psychotherapists, Mental Health and Allied Professionals.

Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence. The Greenane Centre, founded and managed by Liz Quish MIACP, BSc (Hons) MSc, is a well-established, award winning training centre specialising in CPD training for Mental Health and Allied Professionals seeking to expand their core training to reflect areas of specialisation. We offer a diverse range of Specialised CPD Programmes underpinned by Trauma Informed Care

and the Principals of Best Practices in Mental Health Promotion. All our programmes encompass practical, transferable skills-based training with a strong theoretical foundation underpinned by evidence based and ethical interventions. The multidisciplinary teaching team at The Greenane Centre are experts in their field, with a vast range of clinical experience and academic credentials. We pride ourselves on our student-centred, therapeutic teaching approach, offering students a reflective and nurturing learning environment. Our training programmes place a strong focus on:

- Personal and Professional Development

- Theoretical, Experiential and Therapeutic Integration

- Evidence Based and Ethical Practice

- Therapeutic Teaching and Reflective Practice

- Trauma Informed Care Principals and Practices

Our training programmes will be of particular interest to Mental Health and Allied Professionals seeking to expand their core training to reflect areas of specialisation, particularly Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Art, Play, Music and Drama Therapists. Our Trauma programmes have proven very popular and highly beneficial for Social Workers, GAL’s, Occupational Therapists, Social Care, Residential, Family Support and Youth Workers.

Since establishing The Greenane Centre in 2019, considerable work and expertise has gone into developing our programmes,...
04/09/2026

Since establishing The Greenane Centre in 2019, considerable work and expertise has gone into developing our programmes, their titles, structure, content, assessments, clinical practice elements and the standards that underpin them. I am immensely proud of what we’ve built. That is why what has come to our attention has been so upsetting.

We have identified distinctive elements of our programmes that have been directly lifted from The Greenane Centre website and incorporated into training offered by another provider. This goes beyond legitimate overlap within the same professional field. It includes programme content, clinical practice requirements and assessments developed by The Greenane Centre. We have also noticed programme titles appearing elsewhere that closely mirror those of long established Greenane programmes.

This is not about other providers offering training in the same specialist areas. There should be space for different providers and approaches. My concern is when this moves beyond working within the same field and begins to reproduce distinctive elements of programmes we have invested considerable time, expertise and resources in developing.

I find that genuinely difficult to reconcile.

We work within a profession in which ethics and professional integrity are fundamental. For those educating therapists, those principles carry responsibility. We cannot teach ethical practice and professional integrity without holding ourselves to those same standards.

No provider owns established theory, research, therapeutic models or areas of clinical knowledge. Original programme content, assessments and educational materials are different.

Our website content and materials are protected by copyright and we are taking appropriate advice regarding the protection of our work. I wish we didn’t have to.

When you know what it has taken to build something with integrity and years of work, it is difficult to put into words how it feels to see parts of it taken and presented elsewhere as someone else’s work. That is just not OK!

❓❓When a client is there, should we as therapists leave?I recently asked therapists whether they had ever chosen not to ...
03/09/2026

❓❓When a client is there, should we as therapists leave?

I recently asked therapists whether they had ever chosen not to attend an event because they knew a client would be there.

Many said yes.

It raises a more complex question:

At what point does protecting a professional boundary become the therapist repeatedly removing themselves from their own life?

Our responsibility to protect confidentiality is clear. But a client’s presence in public does not automatically make the therapist’s presence inappropriate. Nor does it necessarily create a dual relationship.

For therapists working in smaller communities, complete separation is often impossible. We may attend the same gym, conference or community event. Ethical practice cannot depend on never occupying the same space.

What matters is the context.

Could the encounter expose the therapeutic relationship?
Is there a genuine conflict of interest?
Might either person learn something that could affect the work?
Is the client likely to feel exposed or responsible for managing the therapist’s discomfort?
These questions require clinical judgement not a blanket rule that the therapist must always leave.

Where an encounter is reasonably foreseeable it can be discussed during contracting. The therapist can explain that they will not initiate contact in public, while the client remains free to decide whether to acknowledge them. This protects the client’s agency and confidentiality.

There will be occasions when leaving is clinically appropriate. There will also be occasions when it is unnecessary and may reflect the therapist’s anxiety more than the client’s need.

There is also a question of sustainability.

Therapists need relationships, interests, recreation and community beyond the therapy room. If maintaining professional boundaries repeatedly requires us to withdraw from the people, places and activities that sustain us, we need to ask whether our response is genuinely necessary and proportionate.

Boundaries should protect the therapeutic relationship. They should not automatically require therapists to become invisible within their own communities.

Thoughts 💭

The response to our planned Advanced Diploma in Perinatal & Maternal Mental Health: Advanced Clinical Practice has been ...
26/08/2026

The response to our planned Advanced Diploma in Perinatal & Maternal Mental Health: Advanced Clinical Practice has been significant.

Thank you to everyone who has contacted us. We have received so many messages that I apologise if I haven’t yet managed to respond to you individually.

Given the level of interest, we are now opening a dedicated Expression of Interest database, with the programme scheduled for 2027.

This programme is being developed in recognition of the complexity of psychological, emotional and relational wellbeing across the perinatal period and the transition to parenthood.

From fertility and conception through pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period, experiences may include infertility and assisted conception, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, perinatal anxiety and depression, previous trauma becoming reactivated, changes in identity and relationships, and challenges within the developing parent–infant relationship.

These experiences can also intersect. Trauma, loss, attachment history, physical health, relationships, social circumstances and experiences of pregnancy and birth can each influence wellbeing during this significant period.

This is why we are actively developing a multidisciplinary Advanced Diploma, bringing together contemporary evidence and professional knowledge across perinatal and maternal mental health, trauma, attachment, loss, psychological wellbeing and the parent–infant relationship.

Our aim is to provide substantive advanced professional development for those seeking a deeper and more integrated understanding of this important area of practice.

Expressions of Interest for 2027 are now open.

To add your name to the database, email [email protected] with Perinatal & Maternal Mental Health in the subject line.

The Greenane Centre | Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence

❗️3 PLACES HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE | CONFERENCE 2026Following a change in availability, three places are now available for...
24/08/2026

❗️3 PLACES HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE | CONFERENCE 2026

Following a change in availability, three places are now available for our 2026 Conference with Deb Dana, internationally recognised for her work in bringing Polyvagal Theory into clinical practice.

The Rhythm of Regulation: From Theory to Embodiment
The Art and Science of Polyvagal Theory

📅 2nd & 3rd October 2026
📍 Tipperary Town

The conference had been fully booked for months, so this is a final opportunity for three people to join us.

If you were hoping to attend, don’t miss your chance.

Email [email protected] to secure your place.

Full conference details:
Greenane.ie

ClinicalPractice

The Leaving Cert results came out on Friday and much of the conversation has understandably been about points, courses a...
23/08/2026

The Leaving Cert results came out on Friday and much of the conversation has understandably been about points, courses and college places. But there is another part worth considering.
At 17 or 18, young people are being asked to perform academically and make decisions about their future during a significant period of development. Identity is still forming. Executive functioning continues to mature. Motivation, confidence, interests and direction can change considerably through late adolescence and early adulthood.
In addition, development happens within the context of a young person’s life. Some adolescents sit their Leaving Cert while managing bereavement, trauma, family difficulties, bullying, neurodivergence, anxiety or caring responsibilities. Those experiences don’t disappear at the exam hall door. Yet young people are still expected to concentrate, organise themselves, retain information and perform while managing and navigating some very challenging life circumstances.

I understand this professionally after many years of working with adolescents. I also understand it personally.

I did not do well in my Leaving Cert.

At 18, I wasn’t particularly academic. There was little to suggest in my results the educational path I would eventually take. I returned to education as an adult, completing undergraduate and postgraduate study. I became a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator and published author.

❗️I didn’t suddenly become more intelligent.

🌈 I developed. I matured. I became focused, developed discipline and found subjects that genuinely interested me.

Leaving Cert results matter and can affect the options immediately available. But they reflect academic performance at one stage of development. They do not determine future ability, capacity to learn or what a young person may go on to achieve with the right support and guidance.

Any thoughts 💭

LIMITED PLACES REMAINING | MARCH 2027Trauma-informed practice is not a single model, technique or intervention.It requir...
21/08/2026

LIMITED PLACES REMAINING | MARCH 2027

Trauma-informed practice is not a single model, technique or intervention.

It requires therapists to understand trauma in all its complexity, how it can influence the brain and body, attachment and relationships, emotional regulation, behaviour, dissociation, protective responses and the therapeutic relationship itself.

Our Advanced Diploma in Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy – Through an Integrative Lens is an extensive 19-day advanced clinical training programme designed for qualified practitioners who want to develop greater depth, confidence and clinical competence in working therapeutically with trauma.

Across the programme, participants will explore and examine trauma through multiple contemporary and complementary lenses, including:

• Neurobiology and neurophysiology of trauma
• Trauma and the body
• Attachment and relational processes
• Trauma-expressed behaviours
• Phase-oriented trauma treatment
• Somatic approaches
• Dissociation and structural dissociation
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Somatic IFS
• Creative approaches to trauma processing
• Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue

The emphasis throughout is not simply on acquiring more techniques. It is on developing the clinical thinking, formulation, relational awareness and therapeutic capacity required to work with trauma safely, ethically and integratively.

19 Days Advanced Training
110 IACP CPD Points
Delivered Live Online
Commencing March 2027

Limited places remaining.

For full programme content, timetable, entry requirements and registration:

www.greenane.ie

18/08/2026

WORKING WITH SEPARATED PARENTS: DO YOU HAVE A POLICY?

My recent poll highlighted that many therapists working with children and adolescents do not have a specific Separated Parents Policy.

For me, this policy sits within my Working in Partnership with Parents Agreement and forms part of assessing the pre-therapy conditions surrounding the work.

Before commencing therapy, I want clarity around guardianship, consent any relevant court orders or custody/access arrangements, parental agreement about the referral, how communication will be managed and what happens if disagreement arises.

I am also considering the wider relational context. Where there is parental conflict, we need to be alert to the possibility of the therapist or therapeutic process becoming drawn into that conflict.

These are not simply administrative matters. They can affect whether and under what conditions therapeutic work can appropriately proceed.

In Ireland, therapists working with minors should have a working knowledge of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (as amended), Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 and Children First Act 2015, alongside our safeguarding, data protection and professional ethical responsibilities.

Importantly, separation does not determine guardianship. Guardianship, custody and access are distinct legal concepts, and understanding those distinctions matters when establishing consent and the parameters of the work.

We are not expected to practise family law. We do, however, need sufficient legal and ethical literacy to know what needs to be established and when further clarification or advice is required.

A clear Separated Parents Policy provides a framework for navigating these issues consistently, rather than trying to resolve them for the first time when a difficulty arises.

For those of us working therapeutically with children and adolescents, I believe it is an important part of a robust and ethically informed practice framework.

I welcome your comments 🙌

The January 2027 intake of our Specialist Diploma in Neurodiversity Informed Practice is now FULL.For us, the interest i...
18/08/2026

The January 2027 intake of our Specialist Diploma in Neurodiversity Informed Practice is now FULL.

For us, the interest in this programme speaks to something important within the profession: therapists are increasingly recognising that neurodiversity informed practice cannot sit at the margins of therapeutic training.

Neurodivergent clients are already in our therapy rooms.

The question, therefore, is not simply whether we understand neurodiversity but whether our therapeutic practice reflects that understanding.

That requires us to examine much more than presentation or diagnosis. It means thinking critically about assessment and formulation, communication, sensory experience, masking, regulation, trauma, burnout and the therapeutic relationship itself. It also requires therapists to consider where established therapeutic models may need to be adapted rather than expecting the client to adapt to the model.

This is the depth of learning we wanted to create through the Specialist Diploma in Neurodiversity Informed Practice.

The programme is facilitated by Romy Graichen, therapist and clinical supervisor, whose specialist professional knowledge is informed by her own lived experience as a multiply neurodivergent practitioner. That integration of clinical knowledge, contemporary thinking and lived experience is central to the programme.

Thank you to the therapists who have chosen to undertake this specialist training with The Greenane Centre.

Our January 2027 cohort is now at capacity, and we have opened the waiting list for the next intake.

To join the waiting list email: [email protected]

https://greenane.ie/cpd-courses/specialist-diploma-in-neurodiversity-informed-practice/

The Greenane Centre
Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence

Certificate in Attachment-Informed Relational Practice - Attachment Through a Contemporary LensThank you to everyone who...
17/08/2026

Certificate in Attachment-Informed Relational Practice - Attachment Through a Contemporary Lens

Thank you to everyone who has expressed an interest in this new programme. The response has been phenomenal and demonstrates the level of interest in advanced, contemporary attachment-informed training that has direct relevance to relational practice.

We are currently finalising the programme timetable and expect to have this ready within the next week or two. Everyone who has already contacted us has been added to our expression of interest database and will receive the full programme details as soon as they are available.

The emphasis throughout the programme will be on translating theory into thoughtful, ethical and informed relational practice, supporting practitioners to deepen both their knowledge and their application of attachment-informed thinking within their professional roles.

The Certificate is suitable for psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, residential care professionals, youth and family support practitioners and other professionals whose work is relational in nature.

If you have already expressed an interest we will be in touch as soon as the timetable and full programme information are released.

If you haven’t yet expressed an interest and would like to be added to the database, please email [email protected].

The Greenane Centre
Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence

COMING SOON TO THE GREENANE CENTRECertificate in Attachment-Informed Relational PracticeAttachment Through a Contemporar...
16/08/2026

COMING SOON TO THE GREENANE CENTRE

Certificate in Attachment-Informed Relational Practice
Attachment Through a Contemporary Lens

A new professional certificate programme is coming to The Greenane Centre.

Delivered live online.

Further programme details and dates will be announced shortly.

To express your interest and be among the first to receive programme information when registration opens, email:

[email protected]

The Greenane Centre
Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence

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