Welcome. My name is Dr. Aman Kwatra. I work as a counselling psychologist, teacher, and guide, but perhaps most simply, a fellow traveler on this winding path of life.
My work is rooted in a quiet belief that within every person there is a mythic self: a deeper presence beneath the noise of the world, waiting to be remembered. A part of us that knows how to heal, how to belong, and how to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of life.
My Academic Journey
My academic path began with a deep curiosity for the human experience. I completed my MSc in Psychology at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), a place that taught me the value of reflection, insight, and compassion.
This led me to Trinity College Dublin, where I completed my Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. My research there was awarded the Allen Burke Memorial Prize for Best Dissertation, a recognition I hold with gratitude.
Later, I was drawn to deepen my understanding of grief, loss, and healing — completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Bereavement and Loss from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, in partnership with the Irish Hospice Foundation.
In addition to my training in psychology, I completed a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies at The Open University (UK), an MSc in International Relations at the University of Bristol, and an MA in Post-War Recovery Studies at the University of York. These interdisciplinary studies have profoundly informed my psychological practice—Classical Studies enriched my understanding of myth, narrative, and the archetypal structures of human experience; International Relations offered insight into systems, identity, and conflict on a global scale; and Post-War Recovery Studies deepened my awareness of trauma, resilience, and collective healing in the aftermath of crisis.
Professional Experience
Over the years, I have worked alongside people in many stages of life and in many places of struggle, in Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) Primary Care Psychology (HSE), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), intellectual disability services (St. Michael’s House), workplace mental health (Spectrum.Life), and forensic settings within the Irish Prison Service. I currently also work part-time as a Senior Psychologist in CAMHS.
Alongside clinical work, I have been deeply involved in teaching and mentorship, having lectured at Trinity College Dublin, City Colleges (Ireland), and K.C. College (Mumbai). My work explores the intersection of psychology, mythology, and human transformation, helping students, professionals, and creatives understand the deeper narratives shaping their lives. Through teaching, I encourage individuals to rethink personal and collective stories, expanding their understanding of identity, healing, and creativity.
Each of these spaces has taught me humility, patience, and reverence for the human spirit.
Today, through The Mythic Self, I offer a space of gentle guidance, drawing from psychotherapy, mindfulness, myth, and nature-based wisdom. I support those navigating grief, anxiety, depression, burnout, life transitions, or simply the quiet ache for a slower, more meaningful life.
My Approach
My work is not about fixing or striving. It is about remembering, returning to what is already whole within us. It is about creating spaces where we can pause, breathe, and listen again to the quiet wisdom of our own being.
Alongside my training in several evidence-based psychological approaches, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), emotion-focused therapy (EFT), and interpersonal neurobiology, I am deeply inspired by ancient traditions that regarded nature, in its myriad forms - the forests, the mountains, and the rivers not as mere metaphors, but as living teachers.
I believe that healing often arises when we reconnect with this deeper rhythm of life, when we attune to nature, to our bodies, and to the changing seasons of our own inner world: growth, rest, loss, and renewal.
Through counselling therapy, meditation, teaching, and writing, I aim to guide others back to this place of inner knowing, where life feels less like a problem to be solved, and more like a path to walk with presence, care, and wonder.
Supporting individuals to cultivate self-care and self-compassion, to move beyond patterns of shame, sorrow, and fear, and to live with greater mindfulness and meaning are core values that shape my work. My hope is to offer a grounded, reflective space where healing can unfold naturally and where people can rediscover their own capacity for resilience, authenticity, and connection.
A Final Word
We all carry stories, some inherited, some chosen, some waiting to be rewritten.
It would be my honor to walk alongside you as you rediscover your own mythic self, the part of you that is already whole, already wise, and already deeply connected to the living world around you.
This is the heart of my work.
A return, not to who you should be, but to who you already are.
