Online or telephone psychotherapy sessions are most certainly not the same as meeting in person. For some, it is a bridge too far. For others, it can be surprisingly helpful and meaningful.

If you are interested in starting a course of psychotherapy through the medium of video calling, you’ll need to ensure that you have regular access to a private, confidential space, and either decent broadband for your computer, or a good quality 4/5G signal. Headphones really help ensure good communication.

Online working in this way requires a mutual commitment to the ritual of creating a reflective space.

If you think that a course of online psychotherapy would be of help to you now, then please get in touch with either José or Dermod and we will get back to you to discuss how it could work.

Dermod

It was an experiential course designed to facilitate a greater degree of familiarity for participants in working with clients bringing sexual and gender issues.

It was a magical, mutually enriching week, and gave me plenty of food for thought, which I hope will help me in the series of talks coming up later this year at psychosexualtherapy.ie.

Dermod

If you’d like to hear Dermod talk about this course on a podcast, please listen here.

“Life-changing is too modest an assessment“

Creativity for the Caretaker is a twelve-session course on Saturday mornings in Capel Street, Dublin. It was first run in Autumn 2015, and you can read the lovely feedback here from participants. Based on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and its companion book, The Artist’s Way at Work, the course will be designed around your needs for creative expression – writing, drawing, whatever it is that you’ve been neglecting. It will be a supportive space to encourage you to ring-fence a dedicated time in your life solely for you and your creativity; to be encouraged to ask for help in keeping that time sacred, from your friends, colleagues and family.

What this course is not

This course won’t be a critical skills-oriented workshop; unlike a writing class or workshop, for example, where your output is critiqued with a view to polishing up your craft, this will be more about looking at the many ingenious and plausible excuses you have come up with to prevent you doing what you know you “should” be doing, in the best possible sense. It is assumed that you have a skill; it is assumed you have a long-ignored passion; it is assumed you know what you are doing. If what you are lacking is the confidence/encouragement/belief to get “stuck in” and do it, then this course is for you.

I signed up for a course but undertook a journey!

Although I’m a psychotherapist, the course is not a therapy group; we will, however, be working to create a safe, enjoyable, and supportive space for each other to take risks. We will also be looking at how our “inner critics” operate, those voices inside us that tell us we’re being selfish and indulgent, that we’ve no talent, that it’s a waste of time to do the thing that brings us the most joy.

The Artist’s Way

In my seventeen years practice as a psychotherapist, this is a workbook that clients have repeatedly found useful. Granted, it has to be translated from Californian, but, in essence, the tools are sound and effective, there’s nothing flaky about them. If you don’t have a copy yourself, let me know, and I can order one for you, or you can order it from Amazon here. I have been a participant in a twelve-week course in The Artist’s Way at Work in the noughties, in London. And I was also a member of an eight-week course called Overcoming Creative Blocks in the City Lit, London, in the 1990s. The issue of working through creative blocks is something I work with regularly with my clients. And it is something with which my core training, psychosynthesis, works very well.

“I have done many similar courses however this was at a much deeper level which happened organically and gently and as a result I have taken a few very BIG steps…“

The dates

The course is on twelve Saturday mornings, 10.30 am to 1pm.

It will start when there is a group of six people willing to start the journey, and will be organized using Doodle, which is a way of allowing course participants to pick online from a selection of offered dates and times. 

This way, the course may take much longer than three or four months to complete, especially taking into account summer holidays, but at least everyone, at the time of choosing the dates, would have indicated that they would be available to attend. Once committed to these agreed dates, I’m afraid there can be no refunds for missed sessions.

The venue

bonhomie, 6 Capel Street, Dublin 1

The venue is in the bonhomie office, on the top floor, 6 Capel Street, Dublin D01 A9W3. (See here for a Google Map.)

I am sorry, this course is not open to those with reduced mobility, as there is no lift to the office.

The group

The group size is limited to six participants. It was the ideal size for the first group, and therefore I’m going to stick with it this time around. The only requirement is that you have a creative life that perhaps you’ve neglected, and that you spend most of your time looking after others’ needs, in whatever form that takes. All ages and professions are welcome. Please see the feedback from participants on the first course.

CPD certificates will be issued at the end for those who require them. (30 hours).

Fees

The full cost of the twelve weeks is €500, and can be paid in three instalments: €100 deposit, and €200 on both the first session and the fifth session. Alternatively, if you’re able to pay in full by the first day of the workshop, after booking with the deposit of €100, you may then pay a balance of €350 on the first session, making it €450 in total.

Please email me here  to book, and if you have any questions. Please do not book this course if you don’t have Saturday mornings free generally. 
Once we get going, we will work out a support network to help you, should you be unable to attend one of the mornings.

You may pay the deposit online, just email me and I’ll send you an invoice with details on how to pay; all methods of payment are accepted! Naturally, if the starting date is delayed too much for your requirements, while the group forms, you will be entitled to a refund.

The timing of this course will depend on enough like-minded people to coalesce and agree to a schedule together. It’s very organic, and I trust that when it’s right to start, it will happen! 

Dermod Moore

Dermod  Moore is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer of students of psychotherapy. He was also an actor (with the Abbey, in the eighties), a Speech and Drama teacher, and was a columnist for Hot Press magazine for 18 years. A collection of his articles was published in 2005, Diary of a Man. On returning to live in his native Dublin in 2006, he has largely immersed himself in working as a therapist and teacher, which he enjoys very much. Bearing in mind the old adage “the plumber’s tap is always dripping”, he has decided to offer this course not only to have fun and pay the rent, but as a way of examining his own considerable capacity to procrastinate; his teaching style is participatory, inclusive, and, hopefully, fun for all.

Interested in other courses? Please see here!

Are you someone whose career or lifestyle is about helping others? A therapist, a social worker, a teacher, a nurse? A parent? Sometimes, when our focus is on others, we lose sight of our own creative purpose, that part of us which is not about pleasing others, but about finding and using our own voice.

Creativity for the Caretaker is a twelve-session course on Saturday mornings in Capel Street, Dublin. Based on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and its companion book, The Artist’s Way at Work, the course will be designed around your needs for creative expression – writing, drawing, whatever it is that you’ve been neglecting. It will be a supportive space to encourage you to ring-fence a dedicated time in your life solely for you and your creativity; to be encouraged to ask for help in keeping that time sacred, from your friends, colleagues and family.

What this course is not

This course won’t be a critical skills-oriented workshop; unlike a writing class or workshop, for example, where your output is critiqued with a view to polishing up your craft, this will be more about looking at the many ingenious and plausible excuses you have come up with to prevent you doing what you know you “should” be doing, in the best possible sense. It is assumed that you have a skill; it is assumed you have a long-ignored passion; it is assumed you know what you are doing. If what you are lacking is the confidence/encouragement/belief to get “stuck in” and do it, then this course is for you.

Although I’m a psychotherapist, the course is not a therapy group; we will, however, be working to create a safe, enjoyable, and supportive space for each other to take risks. We will also be looking at how our “inner critics” operate, those voices inside us that tell us we’re being selfish and indulgent, that we’ve no talent, that it’s a waste of time to do the thing that brings us the most joy.

The Artist’s Way

In my fifteen years practice as a psychotherapist, this is a workbook that clients have repeatedly found useful. Granted, it has to be translated from Californian, but, in essence, the tools are sound and effective, there’s nothing flaky about them. If you don’t have a copy yourself, let me know, and I can order one for you. I have been a participant in a twelve-week course in The Artist’s Way at Work in the noughties, in London. And also in a course called Overcoming Creative Blocks in the City Lit, London, in the 1990s. The issue of working through creative blocks is something I work with regularly with my clients.

The dates

The course is on twelve Saturday mornings, 10.30 am to 1pm, from Autumn to Spring, on the following dates:

• October 3rd
• October 10th
• October 17th
• October 24th
• November 14th
• November 28th
• December 5th
• January 16th
• January 23rd
• January 30th
• February 6th
• February 13th 

The venue

The venue is in my office on the top floor, 6 Capel Street, Dublin D01 A9W3. (Sorry, this course is not open to those with reduced mobility, as there is no lift to the office.)

The group

The minimum group size is six, the maximum twelve. The only requirement is that you have a creative life that perhaps you’ve neglected, and that you spend most of your time looking after others’ needs, in whatever form that takes. All ages and professions are welcome. CPD certificates will be issued at the end for those who require them. (30 hours).

The cost

The full cost of the twelve weeks is €500, and can be paid in three instalments: €100 deposit before September 19th, and €200 on both October 3rd and November 28th. 

Please email me here before you book, if you have any questions, or if you would like details such as where to send a cheque, or my electronic banking details. Please do not book this course if you can’t attend all the sessions, or at the very least, are not sure you can attend the first two sessions. Once we get going, we will work out a support network to help you, should you be unable to attend one of the mornings.

Please book your place, before September 19th. You may pay the deposit online by visiting here.

If you choose to pay all up front, the fee is €450 in total, (if you pay €100 deposit before September 19th, you may pay €350 on the first day we all meet together.)

If there’s enough interest, there will be another course in the New Year, as I love doing this kind of work.

Dermod Moore is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer of students of psychotherapy. He was also an actor (with the Abbey, in the eighties), a Speech and Drama teacher, and was a columnist for Hot Press magazine for 18 years. A collection of his articles was published in 2005, Diary of a Man. On returning to live in his native Dublin in 2006, he has largely immersed himself in working as a therapist and teacher, which he enjoys very much. Bearing in mind the old adage “the plumber’s tap is always dripping”, he has decided to offer this course not only to have fun and pay the rent, but as a way of examining his own considerable capacity to procrastinate; his teaching style is participatory, inclusive, and, hopefully, fun for all.

I’ll be in touch in due course to let you know further details about the course.

Best wishes

Dermod

ISBN: 0954551680

Reviews:

“This book floored me. It is extraordinary.” Terry Prone

“Compelling.” Joe Jackson, Sunday Independent

“Stylishly written… impossible not to be impressed by its raw honesty.” Andrew Lynch, Evening Herald

“The significance of these illuminating and often beautifully written essays cannot be underestimated.” Maura O’Kiely, Sunday Tribune

“A beautifully written book that is unswervingly honest, affecting and relevant.” Sunday Business Post

“Unusual intelligence and heartfelt urgency… these pieces abound in humour that is at all times sober, considered, loving and never in the least trivial, or trivialising… A remarkable chronicle of the inner life of an emotionally responsible and fearlessly emotional – and thus truly manly – contemporary queer commentator.” Michael Wynne, Gay Community News

“Diary of a Man explores the various stages of loneliness to magnificent effect.” Peter Murphy, Hot Press

Psychotherapist DERMOD MOORE’s unsparing dissection of the modern gay man makes for tough but ultimately rewarding reading.
…though Moore may have written these columns as a form of therapy, they address many of the perils and strains of modern life with a disarming but compassionate truthfulness. Wayne Clews, Attitude

You can buy it from Amazon.co.uk.

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You can browse Diary of a Man online at Google Book Search. Take a look and see!