About Dr Michele Hill

I am Dr Michele Hill, a Consultant Psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience and additional training in Psychodynamic and Group Analytic Therapy.  I’ve worked in Dublin, Sydney, Cork and Boston, across Health and Education settings. 

Along the way I’ve had the privilege of leadership. I was the University Lead for Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in UCC (where I was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership of the UCC Students’ Union for my contribution to student life), the Associate Director of Schizophrenia Research in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Youth and Student Faculty of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, and the Consultant who set up the first dedicated Adult ADHD service in Cork HSE. I now serve as Clinical Lead for ADHD Ireland on the Integrated Care Project, co-designing the updated national model of care for adults.

My work has always centred on understanding the deeper psychological forces that shape identity, behaviour and adaptation. Over time, I became increasingly interested in what happens not only in times of crisis or ruptures, but in transition. The moments when capable, high-functioning people begin to question who they are and what comes next.

My professional expertise is matched by lived experience. I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. I have also survived stage 4 cancer during pregnancy and early motherhood, and navigated complex workplace environments. These experiences were not chosen, but they profoundly reshaped my understanding of identity, agency, and alignment.

Through psychotherapy, reflective practice, and personal work, I learned that disruption can become a doorway. Not to reinvention for its own sake, but to conscious design.

This is the insight I bring to the Reframe Space. I understand first-hand what it is to carry responsibility, ambition, and potential. I also understand the cost of over-adaptation and performance. My work creates space for thoughtful adults to understand themselves deeply and shape a next chapter that is not only successful, but fully their own.