I have kept this website short and simple. If you would like to know more, please call me.
A Bit About Me
I am a medical doctor for thirty years now practising as an GP and holistic Medical Doctor in my own practice in Vicarstown, Co. Cork.
I’ve been practising Craniosacral Therapy for the past 20 years having trained with the Upledger School and use it for structural issues as well as mind-body issues and retained trauma.
I trained in Family Constellation Therapy with Colette Green and Carmel Hamill and have been practising this systemic approach for the past fifteen years.
Mindfulness and meditation have always been an important part of my life.
Why Is An Holistic Approach Helpful?
An holistic approach is helpful because chronic illness is complex and theres no 'one-size-fits-all' treatment.
Disease and illness are different. Disease describes malfunction at the level of the cells and organs which causes symptoms. Illness however, describes how we experience the disease and how much we actually suffer.
While it is not always possible to cure disease with medicine, it is absolutely possible to reduce the physical, emotional and spiritual suffering of illness using approaches like craniosacral therapy, mindfulness, diet and exercise, listening, validation and kindness.
How Can I Provide This?
Medicine focuses on the disease itself and treats the cause or the symptoms with medicinal drugs. By the time you seek my help, you may have been through all this already but if not, I wear my doctors hat first!
Craniosacral therapy works with the relationship between our mind, past traumas and our bodies. Negative thoughts and traumatic experiences cause tightening of tissues and eventually disturb how that tissue functions. Craniosacral therapy assists our natural healing processes by helping the person release the memory of mental traumas and easing tight fascia causing restrictions .
Mindfulness and meditation are not concerned with the symptoms. They are part of the solution. They help free us from the repetitive, destructive thinking patterns which keep us ill.
Why Is An Holistic Approach Helpful?
An holistic approach is helpful because chronic illness is complex and theres no 'one-size-fits-all' treatment.
Disease and illness are different. Disease describes malfunction at the level of the cells and organs which causes symptoms. Illness however, describes how we experience the disease and how much we actually suffer.
While it is not always possible to cure disease with medicine, it is absolutely possible to reduce the physical, emotional and spiritual suffering of illness using approaches like craniosacral therapy, mindfulness, diet and exercise, listening, validation and kindness.
How Can I Provide This?
Medicine focuses on the disease itself and treats the cause or the symptoms with medicinal drugs. By the time you seek my help, you may have been through all this already but if not, I wear my doctors hat first!
Craniosacral therapy works with the relationship between our mind, past traumas and our bodies. Negative thoughts and traumatic experiences cause tightening of tissues and eventually disturb how that tissue functions. Craniosacral therapy assists our natural healing processes by helping the person release the memory of mental traumas and easing tight fascia causing restrictions .
When enabled to act as a unit, the body can heal most of its own problems.
Mindfulness and meditation are not concerned with the symptoms. They are part of the solution. They help free us from the repetitive, destructive thinking patterns which keep us ill.
