Rachel McMonagle Counselling & Facilitation

16/11/2025

Memories can be painful, some days more than others.

Grief is the price of love 💕

13/11/2025

There’s something powerful about clay in a child’s hands. It gives them a way to express what they can’t always put into words. All done through shaping, squeezing, rolling and pressing. It helps regulate big feelings, builds confidence, and creates space for stories to unfold at their own pace.

Working with clay isn’t about making something “perfect.” It’s about giving children a safe, tactile way to explore emotions, release tension, and find their voice in a way that feels natural and gentle.

It is one of those processes that looks deceptively simple, yet so powerful, sensory and often, exactly what they needed.

10/11/2025

🎄Christmas Dinner to your Door 2025🎄

✨️ 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚 ✨️

This will be my 4th year delivering freshly cooked dinners on Christmas morning across the City. With the cost of living crisis only deepening, and many people struggling, I thought I could only do my bit again this year.

This year if you are in need, on your own, struggling with ill health or a lone parent, I would love to help take the stress out of the dinner aspect of Christmas Day.

I will deliver a starter, main course and dessert to your door with nothing required from you in return, they are absolutely free!

The meals will be cooked by myself in my home and delivered by myself. Therefore, there is absolutely no judgement and confidentiality is respected.

Feel free to share the post wide and far and send a PM with your details to book your dinner.

Many thanks
Rachel ❤️

06/11/2025

04/11/2025

𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙨

Christmas can be a time for family and joy but also a time of loneliness, pressure, expectations, family tension, and exhaustion.

This 4wk programme will be held in a small, intimate group setting and will be a confidential and safe space for women to share, take time out for self and learn new skills to strengthen yourself, before the pressures of Christmas hit full swing. Bringing 'Women's Little Christmas' back, only in a different, more mindful way before Christmas!

We’ll talk openly and honestly about the stress and pressures that often accompany many of us at Christmas. We will also explore people-pleasing, boundaries, guilt, and the emotional weight that often comes at this time of year, all of which can leave people feeling exhausted and drained. As with all my group work, you will only be asked to share what you feel comfortable sharing and won't be pressured to go anywhere you don't want to go.

It’s not about fixing everything. But, it is about giving yourself permission to slow down, reconnect, and hopefully approach the weeks ahead with more ease and a deeper awareness within yourself.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫
𝐭𝐨
𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

𝟕𝐩𝐦-𝟖.𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 @ Rachel McMonagle Counselling & Facilitation, Eglinton, Co.Derry/Londonderry

Options for payment
£16 weekly or a reduced offer of £60 for the 4wk programme - refreshments will be provided each week, as well as a therapeutic aromatherapy session, all included in the price.

PM to book your space, places are extremely limited due to the nature of my group work and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

£20 non refundable deposit will secure your place!!

Rachel ❤️

28/10/2025

✨️ Accepting new clients ✨️

Counselling isn't about shining a huge spotlight on your life looking for answers.

It is about working within the smallest flame of candle light, to guide and help you through 🕯

If you are interested in starting counselling reach out.

Appointment availability for 2 new clients. My appointment book always fills quickly when I open it, so reach out today!

15/10/2025

Waves of light are lit up around homes this evening as comes to an end. Unfortunately, for many the pain and remembering is not just on baby loss awareness week, but everyday.

Whether you lost hours ago, days ago or years ago the heartache and wonder never goes away, we just learn in our own ways to cope and carry it differently 🥰

15/10/2025

The hardest parts of the journey are usually where the real growth happens.

It’s not about having it all figured out. It's about keeping your head up and taking the next step, even when it’s rough.

14/10/2025

There are many people I work with, week in, week out, with enormous potential, but they just can't see it for themselves.
I never lose the belief I have in them. So, I give them the belief I have, until they find it for themselves.

Sometimes all we need as human beings, is for one person to believe in us. ❤️

13/10/2025

🎄Christmas Dinner to your Door 🎄

It never ceases to amaze me the generosity and community spirit that this appeal creates. For the past 4 years, I wouldn't be able to do what I do, without the compassion shown.

Planning is well and truly underway and I'm overwhelmed with the support as always.

Still plenty of spaces for dinner, so as always if you know of anyone who would like to avail, please send them my way!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️

13/10/2025

Counselling isn't about shining a huge spotlight on your life looking for answers.

It is about working within the smallest flame of candle light, to guide and help you through 🕯