Psychotherapy
& Counselling

Current Availability:

Fully booked at present.

Venue:

Mind and Body Works, 15 Wicklow Street, 3rd Floor, Dublin 2.

Cost: €90 per session (€72 after tax refund)

In a paragraph…

Most of our difficulties in life are relational. They are triggered with others from their early roots in our past. Psychotherapy / Counselling offers a safe and contained space to explore the relational patterns we have developed through our lives. This helps us work through those patterns that stop us functioning at and feeling our best to allow a more satisfying way of being and relating which emerges naturally from within.

Starting…

tree-rings

Starting this process can seem frightening. It calls on a certain courage in us, something that can be difficult if our past carries relationships where trust was broken.

In psychotherapy / counselling a safe, contained space is offered and we are free to explore these exact issues - why is it difficult for me to trust? Why am I frightened? How does this affect my life? What does it stop me doing?

 

Through the therapeutic dialogue we develop courage and are encouraged, trust comes slowly and naturally and we begin to see and understand how we are. This brings real and lasting change from within and then, and only then, our life on the outside changes.

The Journey

health-tree

We are like the rings of a tree, each year of our life is embedded in us and is still alive. The past is ever-present in us. Each ring, or year of our life, has a relationship with the past one and influences the
quality of the ring that will be formed in the coming year.

Very importantly, the relationship quality within the rings mirrors the relationships we have in our lives. Relationality can feed us to the root and we can grow into a blooming and healthy tree. Relationality can also damage us deeply.

 

When a tree is damaged it is clear where the trauma happened. The tree changes its direction of growth and a large knot forms around the wound, distorting and hampering the growth of the tree. Similarly, if we go through a troubling phase or relationships in our lives we can lose direction or become stuck. We can't move beyond the 'knot' as it can be too overwhelming to process.

I am trained to listen, to hear the 'knot' and how it protects itself. In the relationality of the therapeutic space, we gently disentangle it strand by strand. As we understand the strands, the 'knot' dissolves and the ‘tree’ of our life is free to grow more naturally and fully. Our inner ‘rings’ become integrated and a fluidity replaces the rigidity. We re-access the deeper aspects of ourselves – our inner compass. This inner change brings the required external changes and we embody our potential.