Meet the Team

Jen Conefrey is Co-Founder and Psychotherapist at D3 Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is an IACP-accredited integrative psychotherapist specialising in complex trauma, childhood sexual abuse (CSA), sexual violence, psychosexual therapy, harmful sexual behaviour, relationships, and addiction. Jen provides a warm, collaborative, and non-judgmental therapeutic space where clients can safely explore their experiences and move towards meaningful, lasting change.

Alongside her private practice, Jen works as a Psychotherapist with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) and co-facilitates an HSE specialist aftercare group for gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men (MSM) recovering from sexualised drug use (chemsex). These specialist roles have further developed her expertise in trauma, sexuality, addiction, shame, attachment, minority stress, and recovery.

Jen works with adults, couples, and people in diverse relationship structures. She provides an affirming service for LGBTQIA+, transgender, non-binary, and neurodivergent communities, recognising the impact that trauma, shame, discrimination, and societal expectations can have on identity, relationships, sexuality, and emotional wellbeing.

She is also sex-positive and kink-allied, providing a respectful, non-pathologising therapeutic space for adults exploring diverse sexual practices, identities, and relationship styles.

Her integrative approach combines person-centred therapy, psychodynamic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Schema Therapy, somatic approaches, Choice Theory/Reality Therapy, and psychoeducation. She believes that understanding how trauma affects the mind, body, relationships, and nervous system is fundamental to healing.

Jen holds a BSc (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and is currently completing a Professional Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy with the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS). She has completed specialist training in complex trauma, childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence, gender, sexuality and relationship diversity (GSRD), addiction, psychology, suicide intervention (ASIST), and group facilitation. She is a member of both the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT). She has undertaken advanced trauma training, including training with One in Four and Peter Levine's Trauma Masterclass and Somatic Experiencing® in Action, and is committed to ongoing specialist professional development in trauma, psychosexual therapy, and relational wellbeing.

Jen has a particular clinical interest in the intersection of trauma, sexuality, relationships, and addiction, helping clients understand how these experiences shape identity, intimacy, and connection while supporting them to reduce shame, rebuild healthy relationships, and reclaim a sense of safety, agency, and authenticity.

Her specialist psychosexual work includes supporting individuals and couples experiencing the impact of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse on sexuality and intimacy, reclaiming sexuality after trauma, performance anxiety, erectile difficulties, vaginismus and painful sex, low desire, desire discrepancy within relationships, difficulties with arousal and orgasm, compulsive sexual behaviour, problematic pornography use, infidelity, relationship repair, intimacy and communication difficulties, sexual shame, and gender and sexuality exploration.

Alongside her psychosexual work, Jen supports clients experiencing complex trauma, anxiety, depression, attachment difficulties, grief, family estrangement, self-esteem difficulties, self-harm, suicidal ideation, addiction, and neurodivergence, including ADHD, autism, and AuDHD. She works from a strengths-based, trauma-informed perspective, helping clients understand how past experiences continue to influence the present while empowering them to build healthier relationships with themselves and others.

Before qualifying as a psychotherapist, Jen spent many years working as a veterinary nurse in animal welfare. This experience continues to shape the compassion, authenticity, and grounded approach she brings to her therapeutic work.

Jen offers both in-person and online therapy and provides a complimentary 30-minute consultation to help clients decide whether working together feels like the right fit.