Dr. Meg Ryan
Research Fellow, Psychology

Dr. Meg Ryan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Global Health, working on the Missing Link Project. This is a global initiative conducted in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross to develop supervision guidelines for use within mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming within humanitarian emergencies. This project uses action research approaches and involves collaboration with multiple NGOs and stakeholders in the MHPSS community.

Meg is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor on the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology in TCD where she contributes to the education and supervision of trainee counselling psychologists. Meg currently works in private practice as a Counselling Psychologist where she specialises in trauma-informed care.

Meg received a BA(Hons) in Psychology from TCD, where she also completed the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Her doctoral research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Frédérique Vallieres, and explored the experience of providing crisis pregnancy counselling in Ireland during a period of legislative changes regarding abortion provision. Her research interests include psychotraumatology, feminist informed psychotherapy, global mental health, sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence.