Nadia Paruk-Collier

Background

About Nadia Paruk-Collier

M.I.C.P, M.A.P.P.I, M.A.(Clin), MPHIL, B.A. As a qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist, my clinical experience during the last 10 years spans across a broad range of settings working with adults, adolescents, children and infants within both general and specialised areas of treatment. I have vast clinical experience within educational institutions (including schools and universities), hospitals, as well as drug rehabilitation services. Some of these include National Maternity Hospital Dublin, St. Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, the SAOL Project (a drug rehabilitation service for women and their children) and I have worked extensively with children in a South Inner City Primary School for two years, as well as with students in Dublin Institute of Technology. Furthermore I have worked as a psychotherapist in the private mental health settings as well as youth mental health charity Jigsaw The National Centre of Youth Mental Health. The focus of my work today is mainly psychoanalytically oriented, which deals with the mental and emotional ambivalences which human subject’s may experience as rooted in the unconscious component of the mind. I engage in ongoing professional development through cartel study group work with I.S.L.P (Irish School for Lacanian Psychoanalysis) and attends conferences and seminars. I am a Member of A.P.P.I.(Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Ireland) and of I.C.P.(Irish Council for Psychotherapy) and work within their guidelines. I work in private practise dealing with a wide range of symptoms that include but are not limited to anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, self-harm, addiction, sexual abuse, gender identity issues to name a few of the presenting problems.