work as psychotherapist in Ireland

I would imagine that information would best be provided by the appropriate professional associations and registration organisations in Ireland rather than from a group of tourists.

You or your colleagues in the profession will know far more than us.

For you to hit it you need to find one of us who is in the profession, practices in Ireland, and is active on a travel forum geared to North Americans, and is willing to share.

Bit of a needle in a haystack job.

Regarding going to Ireland for any job (not specifically a psychotherapist) you need to look at this web page- https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving-country/working-in-ireland/migrant-workers/coming-to-work-in-ireland/

(I am assuming you don't have dual citizenship).

Basically you need to secure a job first, and then to get an employment permit, then in all likelihood a Type D Visa and then an Irish Residency Permit.
Please review the above carefully (and all sub pages) to suit your own particular circumstances (which we don't know), and I don't have a lot of time on my hands to go deeply into it. You may need to take legal advice over in the States to ensure you have it right.

But from a quick look just getting a job offer may be the easy part of it, the following red tape may be the more time consuming (harder?) part.

I found this link to a PDF that tells you exactly what you have to do:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://assets.gov.ie/9739/02c59eccf25d4fe8bc34cac4969fc9cf.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjRz_HymaqLAxV-FlkFHakvLB0QFnoECFgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1cL-FAERa_1RQKht_ZeD4C

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I work as a staff member in a university-based pediatrics department, but I'm not a professor or doctor. There is a professor in our group who once practiced in County Kerry. He told me something that you might find useful: Knowledge of Irish is good for a doctor in Ireland. His group once had to find a neurologist who spoke Irish to treat a patient. It took awhile. Overall, basic Irish will probably help a little, especially if you'll be in the West.

Years ago, I took Irish lessons: It's a very complex language, but it's also a beautiful language.

in Ireland, speaking or writing in Irish is more commonly called “Gaelige.” We anglophones know the language as “Gaelic,”. which is the anglicized word referring to both the Irish and Scottish languages.
While they’re both of Celtic origin, the two languages are different from one another.