A Registered Practitioner Member APPI, she has been a training analyst, lecturer, supervisor and tutor to post-graduate programmes in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has published previously in The Letter, and has contributed regularly to various psychoanalytically-informed seminars on literature and film in Ireland. In addition to her private practice, Marie has worked in primary and post-primary schools as therapist and supervisor for fifteen years. Her particular concern as a child and adolescent analyst is the promulgation of psychoanalytic principles and ethics among those responsible for the care and treatment of young people.