The Greenane Centre

Call Directions Website

The Greenane Centre Award Winning Therapeutic Training Centre. Specialising in Post Grad Advanced CPD Training for Psychotherapists, Mental Health and Allied Professionals.

Ensuring Therapeutic Excellence. The Greenane Centre, founded and managed by Liz Quish MIACP, BSc (Hons) MSc, is a well-established, award winning training centre specialising in CPD training for Mental Health and Allied Professionals seeking to expand their core training to reflect areas of specialisation. We offer a diverse range of Specialised CPD Programmes underpinned by Trauma Informed Care and the Principals of Best Practices in Mental Health Promotion. All our programmes encompass practical, transferable skills-based training with a strong theoretical foundation underpinned by evidence based and ethical interventions. The multidisciplinary teaching team at The Greenane Centre are experts in their field, with a vast range of clinical experience and academic credentials. We pride ourselves on our student-centred, therapeutic teaching approach, offering students a reflective and nurturing learning environment. Our training programmes place a strong focus on:

- Personal and Professional Development

- Theoretical, Experiential and Therapeutic Integration

- Evidence Based and Ethical Practice

- Therapeutic Teaching and Reflective Practice

- Trauma Informed Care Principals and Practices

Our training programmes will be of particular interest to Mental Health and Allied Professionals seeking to expand their core training to reflect areas of specialisation, particularly Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Art, Play, Music and Drama Therapists. Our Trauma programmes have proven very popular and highly beneficial for Social Workers, GAL’s, Occupational Therapists, Social Care, Residential, Family Support and Youth Workers.

I’ve been genuinely taken aback by the response to my recent post about burnout.Thank you to everyone who took the time ...
13/10/2026

I’ve been genuinely taken aback by the response to my recent post about burnout.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to comment, send a message or share their own experience. I’ve read every message and really appreciate the kindness and openness.

What has stayed with me most is how many people recognised aspects of their own experience in mine.

Burnout isn’t always visible. We can continue working, meeting responsibilities and appearing to cope while privately struggling with exhaustion.

Sharing something so personal wasn’t an easy decision but the conversations that followed have reinforced just how important it is to speak openly about these experiences.

For now, I’m enjoying some downtime, walking on the beach and giving myself the space I spent so long neglecting.

Thank you again for the kindness and support 🥰

I’m writing this while on holiday, reflecting on the past 18 months and my experience of burnout. For the second time in...
12/10/2026

I’m writing this while on holiday, reflecting on the past 18 months and my experience of burnout. For the second time in six years, I found myself navigating burnout. I recognised the signs and ignored them. As a psychotherapist, the irony isn’t lost on me!

Throughout 2024 and into 2025, I cared for my beloved uncle while living with anticipatory grief. When he died in April 2025, the grief was profound. I continued working throughout. I’ve always been good at compartmentalisation. I could set aside what was happening personally and be fully present in my work even when I was struggling privately.

However, functioning well professionally didn’t mean I was doing so well personally.
I was exhausted but couldn’t sleep. Insomnia, brain fog, gut health issues and overwhelm became my normal. I gradually withdrew socially, increasingly preferring my own company. Yet I continued pushing through, determined to remain capable and reliable.

Eighteen months later, I’m starting to feel more like myself again😊

Returning to counselling and discovering mindfulness have helped me recognise the expectations I place on myself, my tendency to keep pushing and how easily I overlook my own needs while attending to everyone else’s. Changing those habits has taken a lot of time and introspection.

I haven’t lost my love for my work or my ambition. There are wonderful developments planned for The Greenane Centre in 2027, and I’m excited about what’s ahead. I want to continue building something I believe in while giving my personal life more attention too.

My husband Paul, my parents, my siblings and of course, Louie and Teddy have been a huge part of getting me through these 18 months. Their love and support mean more than I can put into words.

I’m a psychotherapist, but I’m also human! I can recognise distress in others, understand it clinically and still struggle to acknowledge my own. I knew I wasn’t coping as well as I appeared to be. I just kept expecting myself to manage anyway.

If you recognise these changes in yourself while continuing to show up for everyone else, please take them seriously and look after yourself. I wish I had!

Watch your drink.Don’t walk alone.Be careful what you wear.Don’t put yourself in a vulnerable situation.We have heard th...
09/10/2026

Watch your drink.
Don’t walk alone.
Be careful what you wear.
Don’t put yourself in a vulnerable situation.

We have heard these warnings for generations.

They are so deeply embedded in our conversations about sexual violence that we rarely stop to question what we are actually teaching.

We call it prevention.

But much of it is safety advice directed at those who may experience sexual violence, rather than education that challenges those who perpetrate it.

We teach people to anticipate danger, monitor their surroundings and modify their behaviour to protect themselves from the actions of others.

Yet how much attention do we give to challenging sexual entitlement, coercion, disregard for consent and the misuse of power?

Throughout my years in clinical practice, I have supported countless people who have experienced sexual violence, including women and men. I have witnessed the profound psychological impact, the shame, self blame and painful questioning that can follow.

What could I have done differently?
Should I have recognised the danger?
Why didn’t I respond differently?

These questions do not arise in isolation. They can be reinforced by a culture that continues to scrutinise the decisions and behaviour of those who experience sexual violence.

There is a fundamental difference between helping someone recognise risk and placing the burden of prevention on them.

Personal safety education has its place. But it cannot address sexual violence at its source.

Meaningful prevention requires us to challenge the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that enable sexual violence, including the ways coercion, entitlement and violations of consent become minimised, excused or normalised.

Perhaps it is time we directed considerably more of our prevention efforts towards those who perpetrate sexual violence, rather than how to avoid becoming victims.

✨ Deb Dana is coming back to The Greenane Centre, live online in 2027.Deb has developed a very special training specific...
06/10/2026

✨ Deb Dana is coming back to The Greenane Centre, live online in 2027.

Deb has developed a very special training specifically for The Greenane Centre.

Certificate in Polyvagal Informed Clinical Practice, Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation is an immersive programme combining five live online training days with Deb with five self paced online modules, designed to support and deepen the learning throughout the programme.

Working directly with Deb, participants will explore the art and science of Polyvagal Theory and its application in clinical practice from neuroception, hierarchy and co-regulation to autonomic mapping, patterns of protection and connection, triggers and glimmers, resourcing regulation, pathways to safety and rupture and repair.

Having the opportunity to undertake this depth of training directly with Deb is something we value enormously. We are incredibly grateful to her for developing this programme specifically for Greenane and for creating an opportunity for practitioners to engage with her work in such a sustained and clinically focused way.

Our January 2027 cohort is sold out and in response to the demand for places, we opened a further cohort for August 2027.

❗️Just 5 places remain❗️

IACP CPD Approved & Recognised | 40 CPD Points

Full programme details and booking at greenane.ie.

Before heading home to Maine, Deb stopped off at the Greenane Centre.It was quite something to have her sitting in my th...
05/10/2026

Before heading home to Maine, Deb stopped off at the Greenane Centre.

It was quite something to have her sitting in my therapy room, a space where her work has had such an influence on how I think, listen and work clinically.

And then into our training room, where those ideas are explored, questioned and translated into practice with the therapists who train with us. Deb loved the space and all the miniatures! We spoke a lot about polyvagal in the sandtray an area I have always wanted to expand.

After Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation Conference, it felt like a fitting way to bring a very memorable few days to a close, Deb here, in the spaces where the work actually happens.

We won’t have to wait too long to continue the conversation. We’re delighted to be welcoming Deb back in January, live online, for her five day Certificate in Polyvagal-Informed Clinical Practice: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation and again in August 2027 ✨

✨That’s a wrap Conference 2026 ✨What an incredible two days 🥰185 practitioners joined us for The Rhythm of Regulation: F...
04/10/2026

✨That’s a wrap Conference 2026 ✨

What an incredible two days 🥰

185 practitioners joined us for The Rhythm of Regulation: From Theory to Embodiment with the one and only Deb Dana, who I fondly refer to as the godmother of Polyvagal Theory.

To have Deb here in Ireland, teaching, demonstrating and sharing the work she has spent so many years developing, was a real privilege and a very special moment for us at The Greenane Centre.

There was such a sense of energy in the room: people learning, questioning, reflecting, connecting and taking the work deeper.

A huge thank you to our Greenane teaching team, whose knowledge, experience and commitment to our students and profession make me incredibly proud of what we have built together.

And to every one of the 185 practitioners who joined us, thank you for choosing to spend these two days with us 💕

✨Glimmer Seeker✨How beautiful is this?I wanted a piece of bespoke art work for my home and therapy room that captured s...
01/10/2026

✨Glimmer Seeker✨

How beautiful is this?

I wanted a piece of bespoke art work for my home and therapy room that captured something I talk about so often in my work, glimmers✨

Small moments or sensory cues that signal safety, ease or connection, often ordinary, easily missed, but there when we learn to notice.

I worked with an illustrator to create this bespoke piece, choosing the colours, movement and those little points of light very intentionally. It arrived today and I just love how it turned out. So much so that I had to get it framed and onto the wall in my hallway straight away! Another one will definitely be finding its way into my therapy room.

And actually, it feels very fitting that it arrived today. Two big glimmers for me today ✨

This beautiful piece arriving and collecting Deb Dana from Cork and getting her settled into the hotel ahead of our conference, Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, tomorrow and Saturday ✨ and I can tell you, having meet Deb in person she is a very big glimmer ✨

Glimmer Seeker is also a little glimpse of something else I’ve been quietly working on a new therapeutic lifestyle range I’m developing under The Wellbeing Architect Brand.

More about that later!

I’m wondering if Glimmer Seeker might deserve a small print run…

Would you hang her in your home, office or therapy room?

Pause. Ground. Connect.
Be a Glimmer Seeker.

30/09/2026

✨ Glimmer Alert

The postman has just delivered these ahead of our conference, Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation with Deb Dana, this Friday and Saturday.

Two of Deb’s books, Anchored and Polyvagal Theory in Therapy which we’ll be raffling across the two days of the conference.

And of course, we couldn’t possibly raffle them without asking Deb to sign them first!

Every delegate will be entered into the raffle, with one book being drawn on Friday and the other on Saturday.

We do love adding a few little extras for our delegates at Greenane Centre and we thought these would make particularly special prizes,
a signed book from Deb to take home after spending two days learning with her. 💚

29/09/2026

The finishing touches are coming together for our conference with Deb Dana this Friday and Saturday, including this little five card set for every delegate.

The cards explore dorsal, sympathetic and ventral states, co-regulation and glimmers. They offer a starting point for conversations about how we respond to stress, recognise moments of safety and experience connection with others.

I wanted our delegates to have something they could return to after the conference, both for their own reflection and to support exploration in the therapy room.

A small gift from us at the Greenane Centre 🥰

28/09/2026

Regulation just got a little sweeter… 🍬

Our sweet cart supplies have arrived for Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation with Deb Dana this Friday and Saturday!

A little sweet regulation to enjoy as we come together to learn, reflect and connect. Final preparations are underway, and we’re looking forward to welcoming all 185 delegates! 💚

Greenane HQ is busy busy busy !!!

Address

Greenane
Tipperary
E34CX13

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm

Telephone

+3536283730

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Greenane Centre posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category