Anne trained as a General Nurse, specialising in the area of neuromedical/neurosurgical nursing, and then as a Midwife over 35 years ago.
With a concrete background and passionate interest in neuroscience, neurobiology and psychology, it was a natural progression to training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy- a body centred psychotherapy grounded in somatic psychology and neuroscientific research.
Anne is qualified as an Advanced Practitioner (Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist) by the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI), Boulder, Colorado, and was the sole Organiser and representative in Ireland for all adjunct Professional Trainings both in Traumatic Trauma and Developmental Trauma offered by the Institute at Ashe House for over 12 years. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method, all underpinned by Mindfulness.
Maria Dominguez is working as Administrative Assistant in Ashe House since December 2018. She has been a participant on the 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction(MBSR) and the 8 week Mindful Self-Compassion(MSC) Course as well as many workshops such as an “Introduction to Trauma and the Body”.
Through Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR) she was able to cope with daily stress, tackle anxiety and sleeping problems that she endured back them. Similarly, the Mindful Self Compassion course (MSC) was a deeper experience about personal circumstances she had at the time. This 8-weeks course impacted tremendously in the way she looked herself and her live in Dublin. Mindfulness and Compassion has been very beneficial, helping her how to deal with stress and anxiety. As of today, she is still practicing MBSR Sitting meditation practice to reduce daily stress.
Since then, she has been organising and assisting with the logistics of the Onsite mindfulness courses, retreat days, and monthly evening meditations at Ashe House. She is also an integral part of organising the offsite courses such as the now annual 5 night (MSC Residential Intensive) at Ballyvaloo Retreat Centre, County Wexford.
Maria has a bachelor’s degree in business and a MSc in Data Analytics from CCT College Dublin.