Steven O’ Riordan – Psychotherapist (MIAHIP), Shamanic Practitioner, Integration Practitioner

Steven is an accredited Irish psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator, and meditation practitioner working in private practice across Ireland and Europe. His approach is shaped by a deep curiosity about what it means to be human, alongside a longstanding interest in healing, consciousness, nature and spirituality.

He brings an integrative approach to psychotherapy drawing from relational, somatic, and mindfulness-based practices. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Steven spent 16 years working in social care and community settings. These experiences continue to shape how he meets people - with warmth, curiosity, humility and genuine respect for each person’s unique way of being in the world.

Alongside his professional life, Steven has spent many years exploring contemplative practice, Celtic shamanism, and ancestral wisdom traditions. He is particularly drawn to traditional ways of understanding our relationship with the natural world, and to the wisdom held in ritual, ceremony, symbolism, ancestry, story and the land as part of an ongoing personal practice.

Steven approaches psychedelic ceremony with care, humility and deep respect for the medicine. He recognises that these experiences can be understood in many ways - psychological, spiritual, symbolic, relational, ancestral, or simply as experiences that resist easy explanation. What a mystery! He holds these possibilities with openness and curiosity, while respecting that each person will find their own meaning and relationship with the medicine and its spirit.

To support the ceremony space, Steven brings together his experience as a psychotherapist with his contemplative practice and relationship with Celtic, shamanic, and ancestral traditions. He offers a calm, grounded and kind presence, attending to both the individual experience and the wider group process.

For Steven, psychedelic work is an invitation to listen more deeply - to what emerges within us, through our relationship with the medicine, and through our connection with the wider mystery of life. He supports participants through preparation and integration, offering space to explore intentions, reflect on what arises, and stay connected to the experience as its meaning continues to reveal itself! He aims to support each person in finding their own understanding of the experience and their own way of bringing their medicine to daily life.

Le meas agus beannachtaí - With respect and blessings.

Learn more on Steven’s website: www.steventherapy.ie