She developed an interest in the idea of the Irish Psyche while undertaking psychotherapy training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) in England in 2005. Over the last ten years she has conducted workshops on national and cultural identity, listening to people's identity stories and drawing out the patterns of relating, feeling and behaving in them. She has presented her work at academic conferences nationally and internationally e.g. the International Conference on Thinking (2011), the Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland (2012, 2016), the British Annual Conference of the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (keynote address, 2014). She was the first Chairperson of the Irish Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy.