The Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability exists as an organisation to develop, accredit and regulate psychotherapists who work with people with disabilities.
 

Established in May 2000 our initial focus was on the needs of people with learning disabilities, as this reflected the expertise of founder members. Over time, our perspective has broadened to include those individuals who have physical disabilities.

IPD has been recently accepted within the UKCP as a Listing Member Organisation of the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis. The next stage is for us to develop our accreditation criteria to reflect the broad range of therapeutic approaches represented within the current membership of the Institute.

The founder members have spent the last thirty or more years acquiring knowledge, applying expertise and evaluating outcomes, prior to taking the step of forming the Institute. Their motivation has come from the needs of individuals with learning disabilities to have an opportunity to benefit from therapies that are readily available for non-disabled people.

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Disability Psychotherapy Ireland
 

Disability Psychotherapy Ireland is an established group in Dublin, Ireland committed to the progression and advancement of Disability Psychotherapy within Ireland. 

Members of DPI meet monthly in a therapy centre in Dublin city centre.  Our activities include discussing clinical work, hosting Disability Psychotherapy events and networking. The group operates as a referral network amongst its members and is used as a peer supervision space.  
DPI also functions as a reading group. Selected reading is circulated in advance of each meeting which forms the basis of our discussion.  The selection of the reading material is shared out among all members.  

We find these meetings to be a valuable opportunity to think about theoretical approaches, discuss clinical work, share information and network.  Membership of the group includes clinicians coming from a range of clinical backgrounds whose practices are informed by psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  We warmly invite our fellow clinicians in Ireland to contact Angelina Veiga (angelinaveiga@gmail.com) or Theresa Merrigan  (theresamerrigan@yahoo.co.uk) if they would like to join our group.