Dr. John Sharry is a family and child psychotherapist with over 15 years experience in mental health and currently works part-time for the Mater Hospital and is a founder and Director of the Parents Plus Charity. He also has a background in science and leads a research group based at TCD looking at the application of technology to promoting mental health.
He is the author of ten books in counselling and mental health including three best selling positive psychology books such as Becoming a Solution Detective, and Counselling Children Adolescents and Families and seven popular self-help books for parents and families, such as Bringing up Responsible Teenagers, Parenting preschoolers and young children, When Parents Separate- helping your children cope, Coping with Depression in Young People and the newly released : Positive Parenting: Bringing up responsible, well-behaved and happy children.
John is also the co-developer of the award winning Parents Plus Programmes ( video based parenting courses ) as well as the Working Things Out Programme (a multimedia therapeutic resource for young people overcoming mental health problems) which are used extensively in services and schools throughout Ireland.
He is a regular contributor to radio and the national media, is the featured parenting expert and life coach on the VHI website and worked as a weekly columnist with the Evening Herald for five years writing on the subject of parenting and family life. He has also written articles for the Irish Times and other health magazines on a variety of health related topics.
John is also course director to Help Me to Parent who run parenting courses based on the Parents Plus Programmes
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A renowned teacher, trainer and workshop presenter nationally and internationally, John has trained thousands of professionals in the last decade and delivered hundreds of courses and workshops to parents and families. John is well known for his engaging, inspirational yet informative and practical presentation style.