About Us
ATI Psychology Institute is the leading Psychology Training and Education Institute in IrelandWhether you are a recent Secondary School graduate, a college or university graduate seeking to make a career change, someone currently employeed in the health field and seeking to advance your career or an individual looking to move your career in a different direction completely, if you are looking for a future in the exciting field of psychology and psychotherapy, ATI Psychology Institute has training programmes suitable for you.
ATI Psychology Institute provides professional Training and Education in Psychological Therapies through BA programs in Counselling and Psychotherapy and Applied Addiction Studies, Certificate programs in Addiction, Counselling and Therapy, Eating Disorders and Child Psychology and our Bsc Honours in Psychology program.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. John Crimmins
John Crimmins is a Trinity College trained Psychotherapist with extensive experience in many areas of psychotherapy.
John's Post Graduate training is in 'The Psychodynamics of Groups & Organisations' . He has trained in Group Dynamics with the A.K. Rice Institute in Washington, USA. He has also completed specialist training in Eating Disorder Treatment at the Maudsley Hospital Eating Disorder Unit in London. He was Senior Manager in the Merchants Quay Drug Project for 10 years.
John has been seeing clients in his private practice at the Kildare Street Clinic since 1999. John has been involved in Group work for the past twelve years. He has consulted to teams in large organisations, managed multidisciplinary teams in clinical settings and facilitated a broad range of therapeutic Groupwork. He is presently running therapy groups for the treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia at the Kildare Street Clinic of which he is Director and Founder. He is also Director and Founder of the Addiction Training Institute. John is accredited with the Irish Association of Counselling and Therapy.
Director of Education:
Professor Mairtin O Fathaigh, Ph.D.
Professor O Fathaigh is Professor Emeritus of Adult Continuing Education at University College, Cork and is Chairperson of the National Social Work Qualifications Board. Professor O Fathaigh has an extensive background in learning and development. Professor O Fathaigh has served as National President of the Irish Institute of Training and Development. He is a former member of the Senate of National University of Ireland and has participated in national and international Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement projects in Universities and Institutes of Further Education and professional organisations. Professor O Fathaigh has published and presented numerous academic journal articles, open learning texts, research monographs/reports and international conference papers on diverse learning and development themes. Some of his work include Adult Learning Partnerships, Irish Adults’ Learning Styles , The Digital Divide, Irish Adults’ Perceptions of Learning Climate , Affective Aspects of 2nd Language Learning , Empowerment & Socialisation in Adult Learning, Formative Evaluation of Adult Learning , and Adolescent Substance Use/Abuse in Cork. He is co-author of a seminal text on Learning Partnerships published by Appletree Press.
Programme Director of BA Addiction Counselling:
Mr. Colin O'Driscoll
Colin O'Driscoll is a Registered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland. Also an Accredited Psychotherapist(IACP) he has been leading treatment services in both residential care and general treatment in Ireland and the UK,leading clinical teams to the provision of the highest level of healthcare.He has brought treatment services (such as Forest Healthcare, as treatment director) to a level of evidence based practice and high quality standards that have resulted in the awarding of CHKS healthcare quality standards accreditation award, and the revered ISO9001:2008.With O'Driscoll, particular emphasisis always on evidence based practice and thus he has dedicated his career to the strategic implementation of research and literature, based on solid scientific evidence, to the effective practice of psychotherapeutic interventions. This marries his passion for the academic (theory) and his love of practice (therapy). The translation of one into the other has centrally represented his career focus. This passion paves the way for his dedication to the implementation of the highest standard of learning facilitation. He is dedicated to both the theory of learning and the representation of valid literature in a dynamic learning environment. Thus he, as programme leader, ensures that the content is both relevant and validated, as is the very teaching process itself."Convention holds relatively little scientifically valid merit in either education nor therapy. Doing what we know to be effective must be the only goal".This notion has lead O'Driscoll to manage, monitor and continually evaluate a progressive honours degree in addiction counselling which is on the cutting edge of relevance today in relation to both content and the effective facilitation of learning.
Head of Addiction Studies Department
Mr Stephen Rowen
Stephen Rowen is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Stonehill College with a BA in History in 1970. Two years later he received his master’s degree from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work where he was trained as a community organizer with a special emphasis on assisting local citizen groups mobilize for better health care.
Stephen's career in addiction services began in 1975 when he became director of Day One, Maine’s first adolescent addiction treatment programme. Stephen and his family first lived in Ireland in 1978 when he was named administrator of Rutland Centre – the first Minnesota Model residential treatment centre in Ireland. Following the successful establishment of Rutland Centre, Stephen moved to Cape Cod in 1980 where he worked primarily in private practice.
During this time Stephen completed a three-year advanced course on group psychotherapy as well as advanced training in organizational development and conflict management, and succession planning in family owned businesses. In 2000 (1999?) Stephen returned to Dublin with his family when he was invited to serve as director of the Rutland Centre. His retirement from Rutland Centre in the summer of 2008 was with a view to devote more time to teaching, training, clinical supervision and to establish a private psychotherapy practice. Stephen continues to be a spokesperson on societal issues and public policy as these pertain to addiction and substance misuse in Ireland.
Head of Counselling and Psychotherapy Department
Dr Damian Davy
Damian is a Registered Psychologist, Psychotherapist and EAP Consultant with twenty two years experience in the EAP field working with the Irish government. Damian has received the prestigious ‘Minister’s Award’ for his contribution to innovative health and safety projects at work.
Damian holds the following qualifications: Professional Doctorate in Organizational Psychology, Master of Science (Honours) Work & Organisational Psychology, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Psychology, Diploma in Counselling, Trinity College Dublin, Level A Occupational Testing, (British Psychology Society), Level B Personality Profiling, (British Psychology Society), Level B BarOn EQi emotional intelligence measure, Level B BarOn EQi Leadership/Coaching framework � advanced, and Level C Psychopathology MMPI-2 Assessment. (Profiling). In addition Damian also holds the international EAP credential � CEAP and is International Commissioner with the Employee Assistance Certification Commission.
Damian has completed a research project for the Public Appointments Service and a professional doctorate in the area of occupational psychology through a European study into EAP/Counselling outcomes and effectiveness.
His particular areas of interest include the development of EAPs, Continuing Professional Development, Research, Ethics, Recruitment, Selection and Assessment, Life and Business Coaching, Personality Profiling, Work-Life Balance and CISM.
He is a founder member of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA-Ireland). He has also served as Cathaoirleach (National Chairperson) of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and on a number of its committees. He is Irish representative with the Employee Assistance European Forum and a member of the research task force and an Associate Fellow and Registered member of the Psychological Society of Ireland.
He has designed and delivered training to a range of organisations including the Irish Civil Service, Irish Management Institute, South Western Health Board, Tivoli Institute, University College Dublin, Superquinn, Meteor Phones, Accord, Base, Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Irish Prison Service, An Garda Siochana, National Association for the Deaf, National University of Ireland Maynooth, National University of Ireland Galway, Athlone Institute of Technology, Schering Plough, FAS, HSE.
Damian also runs a private practice (Phoenix Consultants) where he provides a range of one-to-one and organisational services and has conducted assessments for companies such as Sideline Productions and the legal profession. (www.phoenixcentre.ie)
Mr. Gerard McNevin
Gerard is an Integrative Psychotherapist and Reality Therapist in private practice for the past 11 years. He offers his expertise to the Juvenile Liaison Service and FAS where he provides individual counselling and group work to adolescents and their families / staff teams. Gerard also provides group facilitation and individual counselling to staff teams in the Social Work and Social Care field in the H.S.E. Gerald has taken a leading role in Critical Incident Support to staff teams in the Semi state sector, and Stress Management training in hospital settings.
Kevin Farrell
Kevin is an accredited psychotherapist and supervisor. He has worked as an Employee Assistance Professional (EAP) for over 20 years. He has a special interest in grief/loss. A qualified relationship counsellor, he holds a Degree in Psychology and Diplomas in Counselling, EAP, Bereavement, Theology and Social Studies. Kevin is currently researching bereavement and loss and its impact on the human psyche and emotions with the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin.
Marie Claire Van Hout
Marie Claire Van Hout lectures in Youth at Risk, Substance Use, Ethnicity and Health, and Therapeutic Recreation in the School of Health Sciences, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, and in Addictions Studies for ATI, Dublin. She has a MSc in Public Health (Bath Spa University, UK) and an MSc in International Addiction Studies (IPAS joint international degree by Kings College London, University of Adelaide, Virginia Commonwealth University). She has recently submitted for Ph.D by Completed Work at the University of Teesside, United Kingdom. She has published extensively in the area of youth and Traveller substance use within both a policy context and further theoretical conceptualization of drug use within wider social structures in journals such as Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, Drug and Alcohol Review, Drug and Alcohol Today, Contemporary Drug Problems, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, Ethnicity and Inequalitity in Health and Social Care, Social Theory and Health, Critical Public Health, International Journal of Health Promotion and Health Education, American Journal of Recreation Therapy and Rural and Remote Health.
Mary Ita O' Connor-Ward BA, PGdip, MIAAAC, IACP
Mary Ita, (Tralee programme coordinator) is a practicing addiction counsellor and psychotherapist with extensive practical and theoretical experience within the field of addiction spanning 20 years. Having progressed through Rugby House Alcohol / Drug rehabilitation centres in London, Mary Ita has gained vast expertise and knowledge and is at present working as an Addiction Counsellor with the HSE South Community Counselling services.
