Book IWD Speaker: Avril Tierney

Author, psychotherapist & speaker empowering women through powerful storytelling to navigate change, build resilience, reclaim joy & live fully

Avril Tierney is an Irish author, psychotherapist and speaker whose work explores how women navigate change, uncertainty and the invisible pressures they carry — while continuing to work, lead, care for others and show up in their own lives.

Blending professional insight with powerful personal storytelling, Avril speaks about resilience, identity, boundaries, thought patterns, joy and the tendency many women have to keep postponing themselves while waiting for life to become easier.

Her signature talk, Stop Saving the Good Clothes, challenges audiences to consider what they are saving for “someday” — the opportunity, the idea, the boundary, the rest, the joy or the version of themselves they keep putting off. Her message is simple: every day is a worthy day.

Avril also explores What We Carry to Work, helping audiences understand the unseen experiences colleagues may be managing alongside their professional roles and how greater awareness can strengthen wellbeing, leadership and workplace culture.

Avril’s perspective is informed by her work as a psychotherapist and her experience of rebuilding her life while living with stage 4 cancer. She is the author of Cancer, Chaos and Courage and has appeared on Ireland AM, alongside national and local media, radio and press coverage.

Audiences leave Avril’s talks with practical tools, fresh perspective and a powerful reminder to stop waiting for permission to participate fully in their own lives.

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