About Ciaran
Ciaran Doody is a BACP-registered psychotherapist who uses an integrative, relational approach. He blends complementary theories to match the needs of each person. He focuses on anxiety and stress alongside relationship and LGBT concerns.
Ciaran has five years of experience working with people dealing with trauma and abuse as well as depression and addictions. He also supports those facing grief, intimacy-related issues and low self-esteem. Other areas he pays attention to include life changes and coping with loss.
Background and approach
In sessions he aims to build an approach tailored to the individual. Conversations are used to make sense of patterns, identify difficult feelings and try new ways of relating. The aim is to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day pressures and emotional pain.
He offers practical, down-to-earth support for specific problems such as abandonment worries, attachment difficulties and symptoms linked to post-traumatic stress. He also works with issues around prejudice and discrimination and with people navigating pregnancy, childbirth and serious illness. Ciaran describes therapy as a collaborative process.
He focuses on helping people find clearer ways of thinking and relating, and on strengthening coping skills. The way he combines approaches changes with each person and their goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ciaran works from an integrative, relational stance which means he draws on complementary evidence-based techniques and focuses on the therapeutic relationship. This often involves exploring how patterns in relationships and early attachments affect current anxiety and stress, and using that understanding to guide change.He commonly uses cognitive and behavioural strategies to help identify unhelpful thinking and try out different responses. These techniques are useful for managing anxiety symptoms and improving day-to-day coping. He also brings relational ideas into the work to address attachment difficulties, abandonment worries and problems with intimacy by looking at patterns in how people connect and relate to others.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to test methods and agree what feels most helpful based on goals and preferences. This means plans can adjust over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or busy schedules. These options help make regular contact more achievable alongside work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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