03/05/2025
Now enrolling
Diploma in Integrative Adolescent Psychotherapy
June 2025 – May 2026
Working with adolescents is a specialist area.
It asks us to meet young people in moments of vulnerability, transition, resistance, becoming and exactly where they are at.
It requires a balance of clinical clarity and rationale, emotional presence, creativity, and containment, often all at once.
I designed this course to support therapists who want to show up fully in their work with teenagers, not just with tools, but with a deep, reflective, and integrative understanding of what the work really involves.
This one-year, part-time diploma holds everything together
• Clinical theory and adolescent development
• Trauma-informed thinking and co-regulation
• Creative interventions that invite expression and safety
• Assessment, formulation, and ethical confidence
• Reflective practice that makes space for the therapist
• Supervision that supports your real client work
The course unfolds in three phases designed to mirror the rhythm of therapeutic work itself grounding, readiness, and integration.
Phase One is Foundations
June – August 2025
Building understanding, therapeutic safety, and reflective presence
• Relational foundations and group connection
• Understanding adolescent development and emotional regulation
• Brain development, trauma and co-regulation
• Attachment, ACEs, and the neuroscience of safety
• Reflective journaling and therapist presence
Phase Two is Clinical Readiness
September – December 2025
Developing skills, structure, and ethical clarity
• Clinical assessment tools: SDQ, CORE-YP, genograms, timelines
• Goal setting and case formulation
• Anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and self-harm
• Family systems and engaging parents and stakeholders
• Ethics, safeguarding, and clinical responsibility
Phase Three is Clinical Integration
January – May 2026
Bringing it all together with creativity, supervision, and depth
• Sand tray, art, metaphor, music and creative interventions
• Working with identity, shame, gender and belonging
• Social media, digital identity, peer pressure and addiction
• Applying integrative models
• Endings in therapy and reflective group closure
• Supervision supporting client work and personal integration
Course Format
One weekend per month
Fridays 6–9 PM and Saturdays 9–5 PM
Blended delivery
in-person and online (as scheduled)
I am very excited about delivering this course. I believe it has the right mix of theory, clinical practice, reflexive practice, creative practice, experiential learning and supervision.
Contact admin@cherryblossomtherapy.ie
We have limited spaces left
Regards Maura
