Mary Shiels, BACP

Mary Shiels is a counsellor, trainer, and TEDx speaker who offers informed, non-judgemental support to people across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and beyond. She works with individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and anyone exploring diverse gender, sex, or relationship identities. Her practice welcomes a wide range of gender and sexual expressions, including those engaged in consensual, non-normative sexualities, and she provides specialist support for sex workers.

Mary combines clinical training and lived-experience awareness to address anxiety, panic, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship difficulties. She is recognised as one of Ireland’s Ambassadors for Training in Consensual against Sexual Violence for teenagers and adults and draws on methods such as the Clearing Method to help clients uncover and work through deep emotional wounds. As an Emotional Mastery specialist, she supports clients in reconnecting mind and body and developing practical skills to manage overwhelming feelings.

Her practice also includes trauma-led therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, bereavement and loss work, post-traumatic stress support, and assistance with issues such as ADHD, ASD, domestic abuse, coercive control, and menopause-related concerns. Mary holds BACP membership - British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates professional affiliation with a recognised counselling body in the United Kingdom. She is based in the United Kingdom and is accepting clients, including international clients.