Connemara native Irish speaker offering International Jungian Depth Psychology workshops, online programs, and 1:1 sessions.
19/11/2025
I created a meditation to explore the winter season in our outer world and how it can support us now in deepening our exploration of our own inner world. In this experience, you will deepen into the darkness of Winter, embracing the potential within these short winter days. Then, we will celebrate the returning light of the solstice morning, bringing new hope and inspiration for the Spring season to come.
The meditation weaves in Gaeilge, the Irish language (with English translation), taking you on a journey through a winter night in Ireland, waking to the solstice at dawn. You will hear early Irish poems from the 8th Century in the Irish language, whose authors we do not know, but wrote them in Ireland over 1000 years ago.
'The most beautiful gift of this wintertime is ultimately something that is unspeakable; it is only livable. The winter is actually begging you to just let go, and then let go of letting go. Let this natural and spontaneous returning to the root of your own existence happen. Return to that which is not definable'
Adyashanti
Illustration by Elin Manon www.teallach.com
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17/11/2025
First, we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to us. The terms and settings of the old myths are strange; they seem archaic and distant to us, but if we listen to them carefully and take them seriously, we begin to hear and to understand.
Robert A. Johnson, She: Understanding Feminine Psychology
Painting by Catherine Hyde www.teallach.com
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16/11/2025
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.
Henry David Thoreau
Painting by Olga Antonva - Russian Contemporary artist www.teallach.com
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16/11/2025
For similiar Irish words, proverbs and stories, you are welcome to visit my website www.teallach.com and sign up for free to my mailing list and avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, (or messages below), as a gift when you sign up.
It is a meditation on the Irish landscape.
I share reflections regularly from Irish Mythology, Folklore, Psychotherapy / Depth Psychology, and updates on courses and exclusive discounts that may be of interest to you.
You are welcome to join me there.
Grá mór, Eileen www.teallach.com
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14/11/2025
'One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ... causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these — to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.'
An American photographer Jill Uris wrote a book in the 1970s about her trip to Ireland. The photographs she took are just beautiful.
I never heard of her before until I stumbled upon the book by accident in a charity shop in Dublin over 20 years ago. It was such a wonderful surprise to open the book at the exact page showing my own village in Connemara and the Mountain. Here is the photograph and how she described this Connemara region.
'A rugged lunarscape where secret lakes, craggy bens and eternal rock blend in a sad beauty; where bits of color struggle through waves of granite fields; where vibrations of the "other world" invade the imagination.
This is the land of the Gaeltacht, where keepers of the ancient ways are forever struggling to be only themselves and where Gaelic is still the spoken word. The Connemara folk are proud survivors of a cruel land where rocks and death are facts of life.
The tractor isn't used much in these parts where a man alone can better dig up the rocks, build the walls, and harvest the tiny plots. Gnarled, wild, turbulent faces match the landscape , but a strong spirit pervades with values beyond comfort as fortification. The sweet smell of the turf fire lures one into a wee cottage where there's always an extra potatoe and a hunk of soda bread for the stranger. A dresser displays the family heirlooms, dishes, and teacups with a blue willow pattern'.
Jill Uris 1982 - from her photography book 'Ireland Revisited'- Chapter :Galway- Connemara.
Photography- Cnoc Mordáin Loch Con Aortha, Conamara. An tine thíos Tí Mháirtín Pheadair (The fire down in Máirtin Pheadar's house), my childhood village, neighbours and community.
Grá mór, Eileen
For similiar Irish words and stories, you are welcome to visit my website www.teallach.com and sign up for free to my mailing list and avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, (or messages below), as a gift when you sign up.
It is a meditation on the Irish landscape.
You are welcome to join me there.❤️
12/11/2025
Deepening the Senses is my approach to Personal Development work. It invites you into a spacious, guided encounter with image, symbol and inner landscape. Within this immersive journey we slow the pace, attune the senses and open our hearts to the subtle language of metaphor—those internal images, stories and forms that arise from the deepest layers of the psyche.
Drawing from Jungian depth-psychology, somatic awareness and the rich imaginative heritage of the Gaelic world, this work uses visual meditations on the mythic landscape of Ireland, Irish folklore, Mythology and stories, to support you to trace the contours of your interior life.
Deepening the Senses is an immersive experience designed to support you to deepen the conversation with your inner world, reclaiming parts of yourself that have been exiled, and encountering a more embodied, rooted sense of being. The images become bridges—between outer and inner, seen and unseen—tue ancestral story and through engaging with that ancestral landscape you come steadily to understand yourself more fully, more tenderly, more whole.
To learn more visit www.teallach.com. You are welcome to sign up for free to my mailing list and avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, (or messages below), as a gift when you sign up. It is a meditation on the Irish landscape. You are welcome to join me there.
Grá mór, Eileen www.teallach.com
11/11/2025
Explore the wonders of the Gaelic Otherworld, in the first course of the six part series, now available in an Online Course Format-
'Embarking on the Mist-Filled Path - The Journey of Individuation, Sacred Time and the Numinous'.
This series is an immersion into ancestral ‘deep’ time and the numinous, interweaving insights from Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy to support your exploration of the hidden terrain of the psyche on your own personal development journey.
These workshops are a visceral meditation of images, symbol, Irish language and, with sweeping footage of Ireland and the landscape, it is designed to evoke and stir the senses and imagination, where we come to explore and understand our deeper selves, what is passed down the lineage, how the past continues to shape the present and how we can come to break old unconscious patterns, in order to step into our own authentic life.
These programs are designed to be an oddessy of the soul and spirit. I am so excited to share it with you.
Testimonial from this courses LIVE Gathering-
"Eileen’s work is profoundly unique; it speaks directly to the core of one’s being and awakens something ancient and true within the spirit. I cannot wait for the next instalment of this series, to help my soul shine even more brightly—something that feels so needed in a world where many have forgotten their true essence. Thank you, Eileen, for helping me to remember mine" (Caroline, UK participant).
To learn more, visit www.teallach.com/mist. (Link above and below in comment section). You can DM me also for the link.
You will be very welcome.
Grá mór, Eileen www.teallach.com
11/11/2025
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.
Thomas De Quincey
Painting by Carl Vilhelm Holsøe www.teallach.com
10/11/2025
For similiar Irish words and stories, you are welcome to visit my website www.teallach.com and sign up for free to my mailing list and avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, (or messages below), as a gift when you sign up.
It is a meditation on the Irish landscape.
I share reflections regularly from Irish Mythology, Folklore, Psychotherapy / Depth Psychology, and updates on courses and exclusive discounts that may be of interest to you.
You are welcome to join me there.
Grá mór, Eileen www.teallach.com
07/11/2025
Samhain marks the beginning of the darkest part of the year, the beginning of winter. In mythology, at Samhain, the Cailleach, the old hag or the wise crone of winter, leaves the mountains and begins her walk across the lands bringing the winter storms, snow and darkness with her. Darkness is associated with new beginnings. The potential of the seed below the ground. These are liminal threshold times in the changing seasons of our lives.
The Cailleach's Descent to the Underworld- Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country is an online course program that explores how grief and loss are natural responses to changes in our lives. Even the most welcomed change requires us to let go of something. These threshold times are often called 'the dark night of the soul'. This workshop will deepen our understanding of what happens for us at threshold times and how we can begin to support ourselves in ‘this strange country’.
This course draws on understanding from Jungian depth psychology, psychotherapy, and the wisdom of an ancient gaelic world through Irish mythology and folklore, in a visceral, visual experience that aims to engage your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Looking forward to sharing it with you.
Learn more by visiting my website www.teallach.com or Link in bio.
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Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin (MSoc Sc and MA Psychotherapy) is a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor. She lives and works in Galway city where she has a private practice. Eileen has over 14 years experience working with individuals and families in Adult Mental Health Services, in both acute and continuing care settings as a Mental Health Social Worker and as a Psychotherapist. She is a manager of a Mental Health Social Work Department in the Health Services in Galway City.
Her background includes a Masters in Social Science (Social Work); Masters in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy specialising in Psychodynamic, Existential and Gestalt Psychotherapies. She has a diploma in Advanced Reflexive Supervision. Eileen is a fully accredited member of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP) and the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP).
Her work also reflects her additional training and experience in facilitating group work, Gestalt Body Work, Somatic Trauma Therapy ,Attachment and Emotion Focused Therapy as well as her interest in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Jungian Psychology and Marion Woodman’s BodySoul rhythms work. Eileen has completed Jungian training intensives in both London and the Jungian Institute in Zurich. Eileen lectures in the National University of Ireland Galway in the School of Social Work on Mental Health and Health Promotion. She currently chairs a National Specialist Interest Group for Social workers in Adult Mental Health and has also provided consultation on service development nationally in Adult Mental Health Services in areas such as Specialist Peri-Natal Mental health Services and others.
Eileen grew up in the Connemara Gaeltacht. This has influenced her particular interest in exploring the deeper memory world of archetypes and how they resonate in the body and senses and the ancient landscape around us. Eileen is a poet with her work published in a number of literary journals both nationally and internationally. Her poetry reflects her interest in Celtic mythology, our sense of place in the living history of the land and the tribes we belong to.
For more information on Eileen’s Psychotherapy approach check her website on www.teallach.com
