Rachel Hoare

BA (Hons) Linguistic Science; PhD in sociolinguistics, PG Cert HE BSc (Hons) Psychology; PG Cert Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; PG Foundation year in family and systemic therapy: PG Dip Disability Needs Assessment, PGDip Play Therapy; MA Humanistic and Integrative Expressive Arts Psychotherapy and Play Therapy (children and adolescents).

I have been working on behalf of Tusla, the Irish Child and Family Agency, as a part-time creative arts child and adolescent psychotherapist with unaccompanied asylum-seeking adolescents since 2016. I am also a full-time academic in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Trinity College, Dublin (since 1996), and a faculty member in the Children’s Therapy Centre, Mullingar, Ireland, since 2016. I have recently set up the Centre for Forced Migration Studies in Trinity College, Dublin and deliver modules on the human experience of forced migration (including the potential impact of traumatic events), language and identity and French language.