Counselling

Counselling and Psychotherapy

From the Irish Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists

'At various stages in your life, there are certain times when we may need help addressing problems and issues that cause us emotional distress or make us feel overwhelmed. When experiencing these types of difficulties, you may benefit from the assistance of an experienced, trained professional.

Professional Therapists offer caring, expert assistance that can help you identify your problems and assist you in finding the best ways to cope with them. This may involve changing behaviours that contribute to the problem or by finding constructive ways to deal with a situation that is beyond your personal control.'

Therapists offer help in addressing many situations that cause emotional distress, including, but not limited to:

Relationship difficulties (e.g. within families, with partners)

Anxiety, Depression, Stress and other mental and emotional problems and disorders

Bereavement - the death of a loved one

Social and emotional difficulties related to disability and illness

Addiction problems – e.g. alcohol and substance abuse, gambling and other addictions

Sexual abuse and domestic violence

Eating Disorders

Career and job stress

Counselling helps clients to look at and start to deal with whatever issues they bring to the counsellor.

It provides an opportunity to look at their lives and perhaps untangle confusions - talking things through with a trained person who is anonymous, who is non-judgmental and experienced in listening carefully and sometimes hearing what is under what is being said, and bringing it to light. The client always knows his/her solution, just needs help in searching it out and facing it.

A course of counselling may take some weeks, sometimes some months, and with really deep problems, a year or two. It is always for the client to decide how far they are ready to go. Sessions are generally weekly, and last 50 minutes.

My fee is 60E, this is negotiable for people in any sort of financial difficulty. I work with most of the issues that are out there.