What value could Mindful Matters bring to your organisation?
- Reduced absenteeism from work
- Increased productivity while in work
- Increase in energy and positive outlook
- Increased resilience
Why choose Mindful Matters psychotherapy?
- I help a wide variety of clients, including individuals, couples, adolescents and corporate clients
- I am experienced, caring, well-trained & bound by the IACP & MTAI Code of Ethics
- I quickly respond to referrals and can often see new clients within 1-2 days
- I offer convenient hours in Cork City, including evenings and weekends
Mindful Matters has built a solid reputation within the medical community and continues to respond to physician referrals concerning a wide range of psychological issues. Mindful Matters is also intimately familiar with workplace issues affecting employees, supervisors and management, having worked hand in hand with a number of Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providers
About Mindful Matters:
Mindful Matters was founded in 2008 by Claudine Nelan. Initially Mindful Matters offered Psychotherapy & Counselling and this was extended to include Mindfulness Training from 2014. In her practice Claudine draws on over fifteen years experience as a professional person in the educational and corporate sector. Prior to entering private practice Claudine worked in a number of careers including Banking, Education, IT and Project Management. She is passionate about improving the way we live and work so that we not only have better mental and emotional wellbeing, but also opportunities for flourishing. She brings her considerable and varied experience and applies it in a clear and straightforward/genuine manner to the challenges set by modern life.
Claudine has been practicing mindfulness meditation for over 7 years. She has benefited greatly from her own mindfulness practice, inspiring her to keep opening to life’s challenges and limitless possibilities. She greatly enjoys sharing the journey of practice with others (through her role as a psychotherapist and mindfulness trainer) and continues to engage with regular supervision and ongoing training to deepen and integrate her practice further.
As a Psychotherapist Claudine draws on a range of therapeutic approaches, humanistic integrative, compassion focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), tailoring her service to suit each individuals needs.
As a Mindfulness Trainer Claudine draws on her training as a Business Teacher and her training as an Mindfulness Teacher where the emphasis has moved from a didactive to an experiential approach.
Academic & Training Qualifications
Claudine completed an Open University degree in Psychology with first class honours. She earned her graduate degree in Business from UCD, her postgraduates in Education and Computer Science from UCC and her Diploma in Counselling from the Cork Counselling and Training Institute.
Claudine trained in teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches at the Centre for Mindfulness Research & Practice (Bangor University) and at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University).
She has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses, workshops and follow-up courses in Cork, since spring 2014. In addition to her background in humanistic integrative theory, Claudine has completed training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT); both of which are mindfulness based therapies.
She attends supervision and ongoing workshops and courses on topics relevant to the practise of mindfulness and psychotherapy.
Professional Accreditations & Affiliations
Claudine is fully accredited by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) to practise as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist and adheres to their code of ethics. In addition she is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI) and abides by their code of ethics. She is also a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS).
