Counselling Services

Psychotherapy and Counselling can help coping with the challenges life throws at us, and to make sense of how to live well.
With the aim of reducing pain and anxiety psychotherapy can offer an opportunity to address a range of issues.

Depression and Anxiety

The two problems often occur together and each can make the other worse. Depression is more than feeling sad. Intense feeling of sadness and other symptoms like losing interest in things you enjoy may last for a period of time. Depression is a medical illness and is treatable.

When we go through a painful experience in life we often find ourselves trying to push it away or even to ignore it. Most of the time we know when we are doing this , but sometimes we can bury something so deep in the mind that we lose sight of it completely. This is why difficult experiences in the past can continue to affect the way we feel and behave in the present.

Children with Special Needs

Managing stress that comes from raising a child with special needs. Bottling up feelings can lead to depression and affect other relationships. Accessing talk therapies can help.

Bereavement and Loss

Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is taken away. These painful emotions should become less intense as time passes and the loss is accepted.

However if the pain of the loss is so constant and severe it keeps you from resuming your life, you may be suffering from a condition known as complicated grief.

Seeking the support of Counselling can help.

Anxiety Disorders

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Phobias and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Counselling can offer specific therapies and skills to help ease the tension in your life and allow you to function in what is a stressful world.

Approaches

Humanistic and Integrative psychotherapy and counselling bring together various therapeutic theories in an integrated way, centred on the whole person - body, feelings, mind and spirit. A relational model of therapy – the interaction between the therapist and the client is central to the therapeutic process.

A central tenet of integrative psychotherapy is that no single form of therapy is superior. Integrative psychotherapy therefore promotes flexibility in its approach to problems but also subscribes to the maintenance of a standard of excellence in service to clients, in supervision and in training.” (EAHIP)

Psychodynamic Counselling

Psychodynamic counselling is derived from psychoanalysis and the work of Freud and subsequent psychoanalytic theorists. It is a model that uses psychoanalytic concepts to explain human growth and development , and the nature of psychological problems like depression and anxiety.

Memories and other evidence of early relationships are used to make sense of current stresses. The process of change occurs as clients become more aware of the power of the unconscious , including defence mechanisms, and hence be more able to control their actions and responses and possibly choose more fulfilling ways of living.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

Helps clients to explore their core beliefs, assumption, thinking patterns, feelings and body sensations. This includes understanding how these elements have developed through childhood and their effects on the present.

CBT can help you change your negative thought patterns and improve the way you feel. CBT is often offered for low self-esteem.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

A body-centred therapy that makes it possible for clients to discover the habitual and automatic attitudes, both physical and psychological, by which they generate patterns of experience.

This gentle therapy teaches clients to follow the inherently intelligent processes of body and mind and is particular helpful in working with the effects of trauma and abuse, emotional pain, and limiting belief systems.

Person Centred Therapy

Person Centred Therapy works from the belief that all human beings have the capacity and impulse to strive towards the realization of their full potential.

The therapist offers empathy, acceptance and genuineness and the client feels safe enough to look at whatever issues are important for them.

Psychosynthesis

Integrative Psychosynthesis sees the soul as a bridge between the human and the spiritual and encourages the healing of the split between ourselves and our culture – too often we shy away from the shadow side and the limitations of being human, whilst popular culture focuses on the positive and unlimited potential.

Yet what brings us in touch with our deep inner selves are often unwanted traumatic events or losses; the unglamorous, the shameful , and the parts of ourselves we have long hidden or ignored.

These parts too need a voice and a place to be while we look for their message or even gifts.

The emphasis is on the therapeutic relationship being a partnership working together rather than attempting to deliver solutions or advice.

Counselling Services in Dublin