Therese Duggan qualified as a social worker from UCC in in 1992. She worked as a social work practitioner both in the community and in mental health settings providing care, guidance and support for those individuals and families.
She graduated from the Clanwillam Institute as a systemic family therapist in 2006 and in 2011, she graduated from Middlesex University, with an advanced Diploma in Clinical Supervision. In 2018 she graduated with a Diploma in Practice Teaching and Supervision in social work.
Her extensive experience includes working with adolescents, adults, and their families in both inpatient and outpatient mental health settings. From this work Therese saw the detrimental impact mental illness can have on couples , families and loved ones This work included supporting both the client and families in understanding and coming to terms with mental health difficulties and mental illness such as bi-polar disorder, psychosis, borderline personality disorder and trauma and more recently gender identity conversations.
Following on from that Therese has developed a keen interest in working with those couples’ experiencing difficulties in their own relationships and also in supporting parents with all ages of children . Due to the change in the economic landscape Therese has also seen a need to support those parents, whose adult children continue to live at home into their late 20s and early 30s, in renegotiating living arrangements.
Therese also works with the Department of Education providing supervision to guidance Counsellors in secondary schools. Her supervisory practice provides supervision for other social work practitioners as well.
Therese teaches on the training programme in Clanwillam Institute for Systemic family Therapists.
Therese is a registered social worker with CORU and is also a registered Family Therapist with the F.T.A.I.