Hilda Burke Psychotherapy, Ashchurch Therapy Practice

11/01/2023

tt was an honour to chat with Pat Kenny on Newstalk radio about phone addiction earlier today. Irish smartphone use is prodigious, outstripping that of most of our European counterparts. Did you know that Irish people check their phones 57 times per day? That's 40% more than the European average. The proportion of those checking their phone more than 100 times per day in Ireland is double the European average (16 % versus 8%). In addition, 56% of Irish smartphone users think they use their phones too much versus just 39% in the UK.

With the average Irish adult spending almost 5 hours a day on their smartphones, we hear how to approach device addiction and reduce your scrolling and scree...

14/11/2022

It was a pleasure to contribute to anf 's great agony aunt column in yesterday's .

"We shared your problem with the psychotherapist and couples counsellor Hilda Burke, author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, and that was the first thing she recognised. “I’ve worked with many women who judge their ‘enjoyment’ of s*x not on their own but rather their partner’s experience of the s*x,” she says. “How much they ‘enjoy’ it is not so much linked to their own pleasure, but how their partner rates it.”
Burke suggests that you start “putting some focus and attention on your own s*xual needs rather than focusing so much on your ‘performance’. It may be unfamiliar to you to check in with yourself and your own needs, but working with a good therapist, or psychos*xual therapist in particular, could be very helpful.”"

*xuality *xualperformance