Published: December 2021

Keywords:
Imelda McCarthy, Vikki Reynolds, Humberto Maturana, Gregory Bateson, Alan Wade, Just Therapy People, Love, Spirituality, Solidarity, Activism, Subtle Activism, Buddhism, Enlightenment, Politics, Future.

Imelda McCarthy

Imelda Colgan McCarthy, PhD. is a systemic therapist, supervisor and consultant. She has affiliations with the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin. She was a PhD program director in families and systemic therapies and a senior university lecturer. She currently works in private practice while she teaches and consults nationally and internationally (see www.imeldamccarthy.com). Imelda is also affiliated with Kensington Consultation Centre (London, UK) and is on the faculty of the TAOS institute PhD programme. She has written and presented nationally and internationally in over 20 countries on Women, Child Sexualised Abuse, Poverty and Spirituality and Therapy. From 1981 to 1995, Imelda was a member of a clinical team, the Fifth Province Associates, whose work and her own have been translated into eight languages. She is also a co-founder of the Irish Family Therapy Association and Ireland’s first professional training programme in family therapy at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin.

Currently, she is directing the Spiritually Based, Co-Creative Coaching Counselling and Therapy Training Program at Blue Star Holistic Centre, Trinidad, West Indies. She is on the editorial/Advisory boards of The Journal of Family Therapy, Human Systems, the Irish Journal of Social Work Research, The Journal of Community Work and Narrative Therapy and the International Journal of Collaborative Practices.

www.imeldamccarthy.com, imeldamccarthy@iol.ie

Vikki Reynolds

Vikki Reynolds is a therapist supervisor / activist who works to liberate justice, resistance and solidarity from the fringes of our work to the core of our ethics. Vikki's treatment experience includes clinical supervision and treatment with refugees and torture survivors, mental health and substance abuse counselors, and collaboration with transgender and queer communities. Contact: www.vikkireynolds.ca

Abstract

Two great women, the social Justice activist Vikki Reynolds and the systemic thinker and therapist Imelda McCarthy get in such an exciting conversation! From Maturana to themselves to therapy, community and society.