CPD for Therapists
Maternal Mental Health, Matrescence and the Motherhood MythDate: 11th January 2025
Marci Carroll – Psychotherapist
Outline: This training will explore the statistics and data around maternal mental health in Ireland. We will compare the situation here in Ireland to other parts of the world. We will dig beneath the statistics to explore the challenges, concerns and experiences of new mothers, and the support, and lack thereof, that they receive. Matrescence and self-compassion will be explored as key factors in normalising the fact that motherhood is difficult, but made much more so due to this lack of support, and the move away from the traditional “village” model of raising children, and supporting mothers. Through this lens, we will question the pathologisation approach that is often brought to mothers who are experiencing challenges , and explore whether there is a more beneficial way of providing meaningful support.
Marci is a qualified psychotherapist having trained at Tivoli Institute, Dun Laoghaire, and is a fully accredited member of the IACP. She also has 17 years’
experience in education. Marci supports people with a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, stress management, relationship difficulties and navigating
life changes. She has a particular interest in maternal mental health and provides support to new mothers in this time of huge transition.
Marci’s therapeutic approach is humanistic and integrative, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic, and CBT theories, along with mindfulness techniques. Her primary goal always is to provide a confidential, empathic and non-judgemental space for people in order to facilitate self-development, self-compassion, and a greater sense of self-worth and inner contentment.