Our Team
Heidi Morrison
Co-Founder of Soearth Projects & Art Psychotherapist.
Heidi manages designs and delivers wellbeing and therapeutic programmes running in Soearth. She actively supports community initiatives and enjoys collaboration with Arts/health Facilitators and Mental Health Practitioners.
Heidi works as a professionally IACAT accredited Art Psychotherapist and manages a Creative Arts Therapy Practice in the space hosting a provision of Child/Adolescent and Adult services in Art Psychotherapy, Music Therapy and Drama Therapy from independent Creative arts therapy practitioners.
Heidi is experienced with a range of complex mental health illnesses and difficulties. She has worked in a number of Private and Public mental health settings, these include St Patrick’s University Hospital, Kildare & West Wicklow mental health HSE services (inpatient and day hospitals) and Linn Dara CAMHS.
Heidi is experienced at facilitating arts based self care groups both for business and community groups. She continues to practice as a Visual Artist and hosts group and solo shows throughout the year.
Heidi’s artwork can be viewed at Soearth Studios, on her website and on her instagram.
Professional Memberships
Heidi is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT). Heidi has been stayed on IACAT council for three years and recently stepped down from the position of Vice Chair in 2021
Heidi is also accredited with Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy Association of Ireland (EEAI).
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts Fine Art Plymouth University
Foundation in Counselling and Psychotherapy PCP College
MA Art Therapy, Crawford College, CIT, Cork
MSc Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Trinity College, Dublin.
Stephen Morrison
Co-Founder of Soearth Projects & Farm Manager.
Stephen came home to farm Hartwell Estate in 1994 having studied agriculture in Edinburgh and then working on farms in France, Switzerland, Australia and North America. Over the years Stephen has hosted many farm walks for Bord Bia and Teagasc including the visit of the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos and the United States Minister for Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.
Nature and Biodiversity have always been at the heart of the farming system and Bird Watch Ireland, Wild Kildare and Kill Tidy Towns have an on-going relationship with the farm. In 2019 Stephen was made an ‘Ambassador for Nature’ from the organisation Farming For Nature. Into the future Stephen plans to create a space for nature to both thrive and flourish.
Vicky Linnane
Art Psychotherapist.
Vicky maintains a client led approach and holds a non-judgmental space for all her clients. Vicky completed her extensive training as an Art Psychotherapist and has experience working with adults in mental health, substance misuse, suicidal ideation and recovery. Vicky also works with children with anxiety and specialises in dealing with bullying and building resilience with those affected by these behaviours.
Other areas of Vicky’s experience include autistic spectrum disorders, sensory impairments, as well as emotional and behavioural disorders. Creative expression within a therapeutic relationship can have a powerful impact on maintaining good mental health, and this is something that Vicky has dedicated her working life to. Art Psychotherapy can help to resolve conflicts and problems for individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and genders.
No experience with art materials are necessary. Each session is 50 minutes long and on a weekly basis.
Professional Memberships
Vicky Linnanne is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapies (IACAT). Vicky is also a council member of IACAT.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts, Dublin Business School
Post Graduate in Arts in Healthcare settings, NUI Maynooth
Master of Arts in Art Therapy, Crawford College of Art and Design / CIT
Rory Adams
Senior Music Therapist and Clinical Supervisor
Rory’s love of music as a means of interaction and connection grew from his experiences of family gatherings that always seemed to involve singing songs, reciting poetry, and telling stories.
While working for a schools-based initiative in Dublin in the 1990’s (the internationally based Yehudi Menuhin MUS-E project) Rory was one of a team of artists providing arts based experiences for disadvantaged children at risk of social exclusion or other societal problems. These first-hand experiences of the ‘non-music’ benefits of engaging in music activities eventually led Rory to study Music Therapy.
Having worked as a community musician in both community and educational settings Rory qualified as a music therapist in 2005 at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. He followed this in 2010 by completing a Masters programme in Research Methodologies with the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
Initially working extensively with children and adults who live with autism, and with those living with other disabilities, Rory currently provides trauma informed music based interventions for individuals and groups in adult mental health contexts.
His work includes a diverse range of music therapy programmes in several acute in-patient psychiatric services and also in community mental health settings such as day hospitals, day centres, residential rehabilitation centres, addiction centres, and psychiatry of later life services.
Professional Memberships
Rory Adams is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapies (IACAT). He previously served on exe council of IACAT.
Qualifications
Qualified as a music therapist in 2005 at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.
Completed a Masters programme in Research Methodologies with the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2010
Rory is fully qualified CAT’s Supervisor
Marguerite Collins.
Music Therapist.
Marguerite is a music therapist with a background in traditional Irish music. She has a bachelors degree in Irish Music and Dance from University Limerick. Since completing her MA in music therapy from the University of Limerick, she qualified as a neurological music therapist in Birmingham 2019 and is qualified to work in a NICU following completion of a CPD course let by music therapist Dr. Joanne Lowey in Athens 2019. She works mainly in adult mental health services, dementia, palliative care, and with children whom have special needs but is taking on sessional work in other areas too.
Presently Marguerite is working for a HSE run mental health service and two different St. Michaels house units. Marguerite is taking on sessional work in at present and private referrals at Soearth Projects.
Professional Membership
Fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists (IACAT)
Siobhán Nelligan
Siobhán is an IACAT-accredited Music Therapist with a wide range of clinical experience across public and private mental health sectors, disability services, and social care settings. Siobhán has a specialism in child and adolescent mental health and has worked extensively with children and youth who have been through traumatic life experiences. She holds a certificate in therapeutic play skills and integrates a range of creative media into her work to suit the needs of individual clients. Siobhán is trained in the Circle of Security Parenting Program and works closely with parents throughout the therapeutic process with children and young people. In addition to her clinical practice, Siobhán has published research on the roles of music and art therapy in supporting mental health recovery.
Professional Membership
Fully accredited member of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists
(IACAT)
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Psychology, NUI Maynooth
MA Community Music, University of Limerick
MA Music Therapy, University of Limerick
FETAC Level 6 in Therapeutic Play Skills, Children’s Therapy Centre
Ben Morrison
Facilitator
Ben is a photographer and artist with an interest in the natural world and how we as a society live alongside it. He hosts photography and creative workshops at Soearth Projects while also using the space as a photography Studio.
He completed his BA in Zoology from the Department of Natural Sciences Trinity College Dublin in 2020. In
His work can be viewed at benjmorrison.com.
Qualifications
BA in Zoology, Trinity College Dublin 2020
Douglas Morrison
Drama Facilitator.
Douglas Morrison is a drama facilitator and videographer living in Kildare. Douglas currently works part-time with Kildare Youth Theatre, delivering workshops to teens and young adults. His passion for facilitating derives from a garnered interest in acting for stage and screen; he has performed in multiple Shakespearean productions as well as in a series of devised theatre that has been brought to festivals across Europe.
Douglas has collaborated with specialist practitioners from countries such as Greece, Spain and Denmark, namely in the areas of Theatre of the Oppressed, Verbatim Theatre and Site-specific Theatre. He incorporates his learnings from these areas into his own workshops and directed performances. Along with his work, Douglas is currently studying undergraduate English Literature and Film in Trinity College Dublin.
Douglas is one of our editors at Soearth Projects, his work along with others can be viewed on our Website.
Bríd Óg Norrby
Nature based Artist & Arts Facilitator.
Irish Artist Bríd Óg Norrby (b 1977) and Arts Facilitator at Soearth Projects has lived most of her life on her home farm in the North Kildare countryside. Bríd og has always had a love for the environment, especially native trees.
She is involved with her local Parish Eco group, which aims to enhance biodiversity in the area and take community actions towards sustainability. Brid Óg’s love for nature has given her the passion needed to create her beautiful art works.
She graduated in 1999 from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a BA in sculpture. She has worked within a broad range of art mediums. These include ceramics, stone, wood and painting. Since then she has exhibited widely throughout the country in selected groups exhibitions, joint exhibitions and a solo show in the Riverbank Arts Centre.
Her work can be viewed at bridognorrby.com.