Róisín Tangney, MA, MPhil, MLIS, Dipl. Psychoanalyst (CGJI-Zürich)
I am a certified Jungian psychoanalyst (CG Jung Institüt, Zürich) and psychotherapist (German state licensed). I offer Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, and sandplay therapy in person (Cork city) or online. I work with a wide range of issues, including depression, conflict, relationship difficulties, trauma (PTSD and C-PTSD), grief, anxiety, gender and sexuality issues, substance abuse and addiction, loss of meaning, spiritual crisis, and major life changes.
My Approach
Jungian analysis is a depth psychological approach that seeks to reconnect you with your own inner wisdom and healing resources by exploring your symptoms, relationship patterns, life events, dreams, fantasies, and images. In our work together, we give voice to the neglected parts of you and seek to uncover new potentials that will help you on your path to change. The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue once wrote that 'We need to be mindful of where we are damaged, and then invite our deeper soul in its night world to heal this wounded tissue, renew us and bring us back into unity'. This beautiful image reminds us of the healing power of the unconscious and that we may kindly invite our wounds to reveal themselves by providing a supportive space.
My work is psychoanalytic as well as relational and trauma-informed. Talking alone is often not enough and we can include image-based techniques as part of a treatment, including sandplay, active imagination, BodyDreaming, or painting, to reach deeper layers of the psyche than the rational mind can touch. I treat each person who comes to see me as an individual - there is no one-size-fits-all model and together we can find a good way forward for you.