Deirdre Meehan

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Dr Deirdre Meehan is a child and adolescent psychotherapist with many years’ experience working in CAMHS in Northern Ireland. She is also a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist within adult mental health. She has a broad interest in trauma-related developmental difficulties leading to mental health problems in children, adolescents and adults. This interest led to her doctoral study of developmental progress in severely deprived traumatised children through examining the detail and efficacy of analytic interventions with these children. She also has a keen interest in parent-infant psychotherapy.