About me 

My name is Ingrid O'Sullivan, and my journey into the world of psychoanalysis began early—at the age of 12—when I received book: The World of Sophie. That book opened a door to deeper questions about life, meaning, and the mind, and I’ve been exploring those questions ever since. I began psychoanalytic psychotherapy myself when I was 20, an experience that profoundly shaped my understanding of the human psyche. I went on to study Psychology at the National College of Ireland (NCI), and I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at University College Dublin (UCD), with a focus on Freud and Lacan. I’ve been working with people for over 12 years, across different cultures and contexts. Before becoming a psychotherapist, I was an English teacher back home—helping others find their voice in a second language. That experience continues to inform my clinical work today, where I offer a non-judgemental space for people to speak freely and connect with what often goes unsaid. Like many who come to analysis, I didn’t arrive untouched by life. I’ve lived through parental divorce, separation anxiety, and early loss. I’ve been in six toxic romantic relationships before finding stability in a happy marriage. I’ve dealt with co-dependency linked to addiction, experienced depression, navigated neurosis, and faced psychosomatic symptoms that spoke louder than words. This background doesn’t make me immune—it makes me real. And it helps me sit with others, not from a place of theory alone, but from lived understanding.