3,408 characters — well under 4,000. Here it is: In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Where Do I Go From Here, Annmarie and Katie are joined by Marianne Murphy — psychotherapist, EMDR consultant, clinical supervisor, EMDR Europe trainer in training, and founder of Trauma Matters, Ireland's first online EMDR psychotherapy practice. Marianne's story is one of extraordinary resilience. Growing up in an Ireland where corporal punishment was common and safety was far from guaranteed, she developed the hyper-vigilance and deep social anxiety that would shape her early life. She opens up honestly about leaving school without direction, spending a decade as cabin crew with Aer Lingus, before an inner calling led her to sell everything and travel alone to India — where a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat in the Himalayas became the most profound experience of her life. Back in Ireland, Marianne built a life, fell in love, started a family — and then lost almost everything. A relationship breakdown left her a single mother at 34, with no home and no income. The death of her father pushed her into one of the darkest depressions of her life. She speaks candidly about how real those dark thoughts felt, how shame compounded everything, and the slow process of crawling back — one good day at a time — through therapy. That lived experience led her to train as a psychotherapist, working with street homeless drug addicts and members of An Garda Síochána before setting up her own practice in 2010. In 2015, she discovered EMDR — and everything changed. In this episode, Marianne explains EMDR therapy in clear and accessible terms — what it is, how it works at the level of the nervous system, and why it reaches what talk therapy sometimes cannot. Topics covered include trauma healing, PTSD treatment, childhood trauma, developmental trauma, the nervous system and mental health, financial trauma, childhood humiliation, attachment issues, EMDR for ADHD, EMDR for neurodivergence, online therapy, post-traumatic growth, and why so many high achievers and perfectionists are carrying unprocessed pain they have never named as trauma. Through a powerful real-life case example, Marianne shows exactly how EMDR therapy works in practice — reprocessing the past, addressing present triggers, and using the future template to help clients step into a completely new version of themselves. Marianne also shares the story of founding Trauma Matters — built from scratch at 55 with support from the Local Enterprise Board, grown to 12 therapists and over a thousand clients in just a year and a half, and recognised this summer with an Emerging Business Women Award. Her message — it is never too late to heal, to start over, or to find your purpose. Life is not a straight line. And on the other side of trauma, post-traumatic growth is always possible. Find Marianne Murphy and Trauma Matters at traumamatters.ie Keywords: EMDR therapy Ireland, trauma therapy Ireland, online EMDR, PTSD treatment Ireland, childhood trauma healing, mental health podcast Ireland, therapy for ADHD, nervous system healing, post-traumatic growth, Where Do I Go From Here podcast, Inner Therapy, Annmarie Gray, Katie Richardson, Marianne Murphy, Trauma Matters This episode is proudly sponsored by Inner Therapy, Naas and Portlaoise — offering EMDR, couples therapy, CBT and neuro-affirmative care. Visit innertherapy.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
