Book me to speak at your self care event
“I’ve been through so many other polyvagal things and come away baffled, but your [Cattitude: A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Self and Self-care for ADHD and Trauma] session made it feel so straightforward. Thank you so much.”
Dr Emma Bede
Coming soon
Do you struggle with self-care, Self care and community care? Feeling like even though you know it ISN’T, it FEELS selfish? I’ll take you through the FEEL. LOVE. HEAL. framework I developed (and use in my monthly Platinum column and weekly podcast) in this experiential workshop to help you help yourself (and others) no matter what your bandwidth is. Book here
While I wish so many people weren’t suffering as so many different types of hate have been legitimised for too many, am looking forward to helping as many people as possible support your nervous systems and hearts so you can decolonise yourself, your practice and take better care of yourself and all our communities during these final (we can do better! Defy dystopia!) days of white supremacy, patriarchy and late stage capitalism. Extra sensitive nervous systems, with AuDHD and trauma, need extra care to not go into dorsal vagal hopelessness (or Freeze! in Polyvagal Purrs language) Join me for Sustainable Practice When the World is on Fire at 10am (until noon) on Saturday 22nd August, 2026.
Do you ever wish you had the confidence of a beloved rescue cat? Like these creatures of divinity and wonderment, we humans are mammals and share similar nervous systems. The Polyvagal Purrs approach I developed makes Polyvagal Theory more accessible with the help of the rescue cats along with practical, simple and effective ways in which you can heal your own nervous system (especially important when it’s extra sensitive with trauma and AuDHD). Join me on Saturday 5th September 2026 from 10am to noon.
Read on to find out more about my speaking (online and in person) at conferences and other events, on TV and radio, hosting and producing the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham Podcast and guesting on other podcasts as well as facilitating workshops around holistic self-care (private and for organisations including corporations, charities, educational establishments, professional membership bodies and small, medium and large businesses), doing book signings and other events
“It was an absolute pleasure to see you and attend your wonderful presentation. Thank you again so much!”
Iwona Blasi, Training and Development Manager, IACP (the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
I bring in a range of trauma informed and ADHD friendly therapies (including parts work, breathwork, yoga, meditation, EFT tap alongs, NLP and more) and Self care coaching as appropriate as well as presenting on clinical supervision.
Do you want to hire me for your event?
I can support people with self-care and Self (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) care for trauma recovery, ADHD, sleep, stress, anxiety, perimenopause and menopause, burnout, confidence, resilience and finding more purpose, meaning and joy.
I’m also interested in hearing about how I might help support your smaller events. As well as facilitating regular online group self care coaching calls and online Circles for my online membership for several years, I have several years’ in person experience teaching yoga and meditation classes and sleep yoga classes and facilitating Moon Mná Women’s Celtic Circles
How might we work together?
So many potential ways.
Rescue Cattitude: Polyvagal Purrs
I’m working on a book to make the Rescue Cattitude: Polyvagal Purrs concepts more accessible to more people and share elements (and sometimes whole presentations, e.g. a 90 minute presentation at Online Events’ Living and Working with Neurodivergence Mental Health & Wellbeing conference, October 2025, on Cattitude: A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Self and self-care for ADHD and Trauma) around it.
Supervision, Self Care and the 7 Eyed Model
I designed and delivered an experiential CPD day for IACP (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) accredited supervisors in Galway, November 2024
Self-Care and Therapy 101: Essential Conversations with the IACP public event
I was also booked as part of a public event for IACP in Dun Laoghaire, September 2024. Síle Seoige was MC and I (Eve Menezes Cunningham) was on a self care panel (and did an EFT Tap Along as well as speaking) with Jayne Leonard and Nicholas Ryan
Experiential self and Self care keynote presentation at IACP Conference
I also loved presenting on self and Self care for counsellors and psychotherapists at the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP’s) Annual Conference in October 2023
IACP Annual Conference 2023: IACP Cathaoirligh, Séamus Sheedy, guest speakers: me (Eve Menezes Cunningham) and Sandra Mullen, (a different kind of Councillor) Denis O’Callaghan, Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, the third guest speaker, Shane Martin and IACP CEO Lisa Molloy
I joined IACP before moving to Ireland in 2019. After presenting on self care at an online international conference between Ireland and America, I was hired to create some EFT videos for IACP’s CPD hub, helping counsellors and psychotherapists learn how to Tap on themselves. Both experiences were an honour but, being online, different.
Being hired as one of three guest speakers to present at the IACP Annual Conference, October 2023 felt especially exciting: My first LIVE conference since before Covid.
IACP’s theme for the year, Treating the Self had immediate appeal. Self care is at the heart of all my work and it’s STILL a daily practice for me. Too many counsellors and therapists (like so many caring professional) burnout and I looked forward to offering some ways in which they could better support themselves.
Iwona Blasi, IACP’s Innovation and Development Manager, asked me to include some EFT and I suggested some other elements (including some psychoeducation, a small Chair Yoga segment and a (not ideal but to give a taste) very short chair yoga nidra, too. These suggestions were welcomed and the whole experience was an honour AND a delight for me.
“It was an absolute pleasure to see you and attend your wonderful presentation,” said Iwona. “Thank you again so much!”
MY pleasure, Iwona! Am still beaming as I enjoyed it all so much. Thank you!
I also loved being part of the health and wellbeing panel at the ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting) 2021 conference
Many of their members already worked from home but the pandemic has still required adjustments. When I was first approached about being a part of it, I’d felt confident that, having been working from home myself since starting my coaching practice and freelance journalism back in 2004 (adding therapies and supervision along the way), I’d be able to contribute self care coaching tips and mind body practices for my slot and answer questions alongside Rebecca Seal and the panel’s Chair, Radhika Holmstrom at the end of the session.
It was delightful to see feedback from delegates calling this panel a conference highlight for them.
“I know Eve from several different journalist groups,” says Radhika Holmstrom, editor of the ITI Bulletin (and Health and Wellbeing Panel Co-oridnator for the ITI Conference 2021). ‘She struck me as having the kind of practically-focused and also compassionate approach that this audience needed! We wanted a focused, useful session with “take-away” exercises and ideas for the participants. Working with her in the run up and on the day itself was straightforward and reassuringly professional. I had complete confidence in both speakers being able to take centre stage.
“I especially enjoyed the breathing exercises and the explanations of how specific exercises worked on areas of the brain. I’d recommend Eve to others planning health and wellbeing events. Eve has a lot of personal charm, which also comes across: she makes participants feel cared-for, which is valuable when everyone is quite open and vulnerable.”
Thanks Radhika! My pleasure.
Other previous events include:
I presented on Self Care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing to Feel Better Every Day (based on the book) at the Counselling, Recovery, Professional Growth and Personal Self Care: A Joint Conference for Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Ireland and the United States in August 2021 (organised by IACP (the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), the University of Holy Cross, New Orleans and DePaul University, Chicago).
