Bronagh Starrs

Biography

Bronagh Starrs is Founder & Director of Blackfort Adolescent Gestalt Institute and is Programme Director for the MSc Adolescent Psychotherapy in Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre, in partnership with the University of Northampton, UK.
She maintains a private practice in Omagh, Northern Ireland, as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer, presenter and trainer, specialising in working with adolescents. As well as her work as a parenting consultant with many families, schools and agencies, she is also an experienced therapist working with children, adults and groups.
Bronagh is a renowned adolescent development specialist and has considerable experience teaching and presenting throughout Ireland and internationally on the developmental implication of trauma on the adolescent journey. Her approach to therapeutic intervention with adolescents is both innovative and deeply relational. She has authored various articles and chapters on the subject, and has contributed to the collected volume: Relational Child: Relational Brain (Rutledge, Taylor & Francis Group/Gestalt Press).

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Adolescent Psychotherapy
Trauma

Websites

• Blackfort AGI

• DCTC

Books