Coping with mental health issues from early teenage years fuelled Marysia Pachowicz’s long-held dream of becoming a clinical psychologist.

Until, halfway through doing a master’s, the Trinity College Dublin graduate realised it was the wrong career choice.

“As a clinical psychologist, you kind of have two options. You work in public services or you work privately. And I didn’t want to work in public services because I have had a really bad experience with public services. So I didn’t want to be part of that.”

They had little faith in the idea that the system could be changed from within.

Read the Irish Times article here.