About
Tom Evans, MIACP
SelfCare is a trauma focused clinical practice. Tom Evans is a certified EMDR trauma therapist and IACP-accredited psychotherapist with twenty years in practice, working in Midleton and online across Ireland. In my view, when therapy is organised around achieving emotional health, then happiness and good mental health follow.
Therapy here is solution focused. We identify what is driving symptoms and help the client to regulate and calm their nervous system. I equip them with the tools to maintain this in the outside world. Alongside this, we do the deeper work — to identify and process traumatic events that are currently held in the nervous system, and which ultimately fuel anxiety, distress and dysfunction. My goal is to help you to heal, to move on and to thrive.
I have been in practice for twenty years. My rooms are at Unit 4 Watersedge, Riverside Way, Midleton, East Cork, about thirty minutes from Cork city, and I also work online with clients throughout Ireland.
The practice is built around trauma. That includes recent and childhood trauma, PTSD, bereavement and abuse, as well as the anxiety, depression, panic and relationship difficulties that often follow. The work is solution-focused: we identify what is driving the symptoms, process it with EMDR, and work toward you moving on.
My approach to trauma
Trauma shows up in two forms. Capital-T Trauma is the obvious event: assault, accident, abuse, sudden loss, combat, a critical incident. Lowercase-t trauma is the quieter, repeated experience — emotional neglect, bullying, an unsafe childhood, chronic invalidation. Both can leave the nervous system stuck in fight, flight or freeze, and both respond to EMDR.
The work here is trauma-oriented throughout. We identify what your nervous system is still holding, stabilise it with practical tools, then process the underlying experiences with EMDR so they lose their charge. The aim is not to relive the past but to change its impact and move on.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Hons)
- EMDR certified therapist — training delivered by Dr Derek Farrell and Gus Murray
- CISM certified — Critical Incident Stress Management, groups & individuals
Accreditation & memberships
- MIACP — accredited member, Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
- EMDR Europe certified
- Member, CISM Network Ireland
- Member, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF)
Accomplishments & media
- I regularly contribute to national print coverage of therapy and mental-health issues
- Television media work, including contributions to the Today Show on RTÉ on mental health topics
- Lectured on the MTU Counselling programme
- Former member, IACP Southern Committee (representing Munster therapists)
Enquiries are welcome, in confidence.
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