Allan Clarke
Allan Clarke is an accredited psychotherapist and Certified Trauma Specialist based in Kildare Town.
He founded Kildare Psychotherapy & Counselling and has more than 15 years of clinical experience working with adults, adolescents and parents, including neurodivergent clients.
His clinical work includes anxiety, trauma, attachment and relationship difficulties, autism and ADHD, grief, emotional regulation, identity and self-esteem.
Outside the therapy room, Allan delivers workshops and training and contributes to radio, podcasts and other media on mental health, relationships, trauma and neurodivergence.
Clinical experience
Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Certified Trauma Specialist
The person comes before the method.
Allan works integratively. His core training is humanistic and psychodynamic, but no single model is assumed to suit every person who comes through the door.
The way therapy develops depends on the person, what they are experiencing, what they want from therapy and what proves useful in the work.
That may include CBT, relational and experiential work, mindfulness-based approaches and trauma-informed therapy.
Approaches that may inform the work.
These approaches are used when they are useful to the person and the work, rather than following one model for every client.
Understanding difference without treating it as defect.
Allan was diagnosed autistic in adulthood. The diagnosis changed how he understood much of his own history and deepened his clinical interest in autism, masking, identity and late diagnosis.
For some people, a late diagnosis explains patterns that never quite made sense before. Therapy can provide space to work through that new understanding without treating neurodivergence as something that needs to be fixed.
Autism, ADHD & Neurodivergence →Professional training.
MSc in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
BSc (Hons) in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Middlesex University, London
Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
PCI College
Certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness
Certificate in Narrative Therapy
Certificate in Trauma-Informed Therapy
Accredited and professionally accountable.
Fully accredited member of the IACP
Certified Trauma Specialist
Full professional insurance
Ongoing clinical supervision and professional development
Practice conducted in accordance with IACP ethical standards
Areas of regular clinical work.
Allan works with a broad range of issues. These are some of the areas that come up most often in his clinical practice.
Anxiety & Chronic Stress
Trauma & PTSD
Autism & ADHD
Relationships & Attachment
Grief & Loss
Self-Esteem & Self-Criticism
Identity & Emotional Regulation
Men’s Mental Health
Ongoing professional training.
Allan continues to undertake additional training across trauma, attachment, anxiety, neurobiology, relational psychotherapy, body-based work and mindfulness.
Mental health outside the therapy room.
Allan also works as a speaker and facilitator and contributes to public conversations about mental health through radio, podcasts and other media.
His background in theatre and performance includes winning Best Actor at the All-Ireland Drama Finals. That experience also feeds into his work with audiences, workshops and media.
Workshops and mental health talks.
Training and presentations for schools, organisations, professional groups, community settings and sports organisations.
Explore Speaking → Media & AppearancesMental health in public conversation.
Radio, podcast and media work on mental health, trauma, relationships, autism, behaviour and wellbeing.
View Media Work → PodcastStraight Talking Mental Health
125 episodes of long-form conversations about mental health, relationships, parenting, trauma and subjects that are often difficult to talk about properly in a short format.
Explore Podcast →Thinking about starting therapy?
In-person appointments are available in Kildare Town, with online appointments also available.