His art psychotherapy practice brings the highest accreditation in this field of treatment and is licenced to practice under the professional standards of the Irish Association of Creative Art Therapists ( I.A.C.A.T )

 

 Patrick, when working with young people, adults, and groups, brings a sense of care, empathy, and compassion, always placing his clients at the centre of their understanding of themselves.  Patrick brings a lifetime of experience of engaging with people from an array of backgrounds, ages, genders, beliefs, cultures, ethnicities, sexualities, and social classes.  He treats all his clients with a sense of dignity and respect. Patrick has experience working in different settings, both with individuals and within group work in schools, universities, care homes and mental health services.

 

In the process of his art psychotherapy practice, Patrick is mindful that people may be unaware of what art psychotherapy might be. For clients, it does not matter if you are not an expert at painting or drawing.   Art psychotherapy is not about being a commercial or fine artist. There is no right or wrong way of working with art-related materials.

 

As a therapeutic clinician Patrick engages with across the mental, emotional and wellbeing health spectrum – He also embraces a number of evidence-based models of interventions and treatments including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (C.B.T) and Dialectical Behavioural therapy (D.B.T).

 

While Patrick works with clients of all ages, both in group and at an individual level. Much most of his practice would be working with individual young people and teenagers in a private capacity and with key service providers in Cork including referrals from Parents, Guardians, Carers Family support workers, Barnardo’s, home school liaison teachers, HSE Tusla social workers, Lisheen house, (suicide intervention), adult Counsellors, Youth reach, Foróige and medical doctors. 

 

Patrick is also familiar with working through Tusla HSE referrals - with young people who are also in foster care and the residential care systems, as well as young refugees from Syria and the Ukraine.

  

Patrick has also build up a partnership relationship with key service providers As a sessional therapist his work has been supported by several key service providers during the weekdays. Referrals for adults from Brothers of Charity, (working in a specialised home-based therapeutic model with individual elderly men), The Good Shephard, (Women who are prone to been homelessness- currently living in a community independent accommodation) and through the Bon Secour health care system with elderly adults who live with dementia. He is also familiar working with clients who are outpatients from the psychiatric system.

 

 Patricks private face-to-face practice continues at the weekends and is based in the Wilton area of Cork city which enable parents/ guardians /carers and clients to arrange a suitable time to attend without conflicting with work, school, or other commitments.

Patrick Byrne prides himself in connecting and working with people on a human level, while building a step by step, trusting, safe, non-judgemental and confidential relationship.   Patrick believes that: “Therapy begins when someone decides to take the first step and trust themselves to come to an art therapy session“.  

 

Patrick, when working with young people, adults and groups, brings a sense of care, empathy and compassion, always placing his clients at the centre of their understanding of themselves.  Patrick brings a lifetime of experience of engaging with people from an array of backgrounds, ages, genders, beliefs, cultures, ethnicities, sexualities and social classes.  He treats all of his clients with a sense of dignity and respect. Patrick has experience working in different settings, both with individuals and within  group work in schools, universities, care homes and mental health services.

 

In the process of his art therapy practice, Patrick is mindful that people may be unaware of what art psychotherapy might be. For clients, it does not matter if you are not an expert at painting or drawing.   Art therapy is not about being a commercial or fine artist. There is no right or wrong way of working with art-related materials.