Willow Community Counselling Services Athy

28/11/2024

Some photos from our recent Open Day. Many thanks to all who attended 😍

21/11/2024

📢 REMINDER - TODAY'S OPEN DAY 📢

Join us today for an Open Day at the Willow Community Counselling Centre, from 3:30pm – 5:00pm at The Manse, Woodstock Street, Athy, Co. Kildare.

Willow Community Counselling is dedicated to supporting individuals and families through life's most challenging moments, offering a range of free services, including:

💚 Addiction Counselling – for individuals and families before, during, and after treatment
💚 Mental Health Support – helping people on their journey to healing
💚 C.R.A.F.T. Training – for families of those dealing with addiction
💚 Holistic Services – including yoga & reflexology for emotional & physical well-being
💚 Auricular Acupuncture – relieving stress, anxiety, and improving sleep

Our services are free of charge, ensuring that anyone who needs help can access it—no matter their financial situation. We’re also seeking support from community partners, so this is an opportunity to learn about our mission and how additional funding could help us expand and reach even more people in need.

We’d love for you to stop by, get to know us, and share our work with others. Together, we can build a healthier, stronger community. 🌱

15/11/2024

🌿 You're Invited! 🌿

Join us for an Open Night at the Willow Community Counselling Centre on Thursday, 21st November 2024, from 3:30pm – 5:00pm at The Manse, Woodstock Street, Athy, Co. Kildare.

Willow Community Counselling is dedicated to supporting individuals and families through life's most challenging moments, offering a range of free services, including:

💚 Addiction Counselling – for individuals and families before, during, and after treatment
💚 Mental Health Support – helping people on their journey to healing
💚 C.R.A.F.T. Training – for families of those dealing with addiction
💚 Holistic Services – including yoga & reflexology for emotional & physical well-being
💚 Auricular Acupuncture – relieving stress, anxiety, and improving sleep

Our services are free of charge, ensuring that anyone who needs help can access it—no matter their financial situation. We’re also seeking support from community partners, so this is an opportunity to learn about our mission and how additional funding could help us expand and reach even more people in need.

We’d love for you to stop by, get to know us, and share our work with others. Together, we can build a healthier, stronger community. 🌱

14/11/2024

Hoping to see you all on 21st 🤩

***Willow Community Counselling Community Centre Open Day***

Willow Community Counselling Centre Open Day, a place dedicated to supporting individuals and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. The event will take place on Thursday, 21st November 2024, from 3:30pm – 5:00pm, at The Manse, Woodstock Street, Athy, Co. Kildare R14 PY58.
At our centre, in line with our vision, we offer free services to those in need, including:
• Addiction Counselling: Support for individuals and their families before, during, and after treatment.
• Mental Health Counselling: Helping those struggling with mental well-being find a path to healing.
• C.R.A.F.T. – Support for families with a loved one in addiction.
• Holistic Services: Yoga and reflexology sessions to promote emotional and physical well-being.
• Auricular Acupuncture: Helps to relieve stress, anxiety, cravings and improves sleep.
These services are available at no cost to the public, and while we appreciate donations from those in a position to give, our main focus is ensuring that everyone has access to the help they need, regardless of their financial circumstances.
This Open Day is more than just an opportunity to tour our facilities and learn about our services. It’s a chance for us to reach out to the broader community, including potential private or public investors, to help us continue—and hopefully expand—the critical services we provide.
With additional funding, we aim to increase our capacity, offering more counselling sessions, adding more holistic health services, and reaching even more families and individuals who need our support.

We would be delighted if you could join us and help us spread the word about our mission. Together, we can build a stronger, healthier community.
Please RSVP by 19th November 2024 by contacting Teresa on 085 1011210 or emailing willowcpgroup@outlook.com

08/08/2023

As a student of intercultural theology and interreligious studies the crossroads where religion, philosophy, politics, culture, traditions (and everything in between) meet, has always been a source of constant curiosity for me. Growing upin a culture steeped in Roman Catholicism my expanding appetite for spiritual knowledge was never sated by a rhetoric that rarely went beyond – ‘it says so in the bible!’ Of course, as soon as the ink dried on my passport my curiosity with spiritual knowledge extended about as far as - where is the cheapest pub and how can I find it! 😂

This curiosity was ignited again when I went to my first yoga class. My first teacher, was practising a form of Raja Yoga at the time, called Sahaj Marg; an interpretation of Patanjali’s yoga sutras. Although written roughly 3,000 years ago, these yoga sutras existed well before that as an oral tradition. Colloquially known today as the eight-limb yoga path. The physical practice or asana is only one limb of the eight limp path, all of which are of equal importance and must be practised together to reach meditative consciousness. This is THE TRADITION of Ashtanga yoga.

Ashtanga Yoga THE STYLE was developed by Pattabhi Jois, an India Yoga Guru. He popularized this flowing style of yoga as exercise, referred to today as ashtanga yoga or vinyasa yoga. Jois posits that asana must be practised first and foremost, as he considers it the most important limb. A huge departure from what some argue was the original philosophy of Patanjali’s Yoga sutras.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of dispute surrounding Pattabhi Jois's teachings, his legacy, and the many schools of ‘power yoga’ that evolved from his yoga students.

But change is always changing and it is worth remembering that there remains few yoga lineages, theistic & non-theistic traditions, or contemplative paths which exist today without controversy, including my own!

So why is Rachel hitting us with all this knowledge you might ask?

Fair question!

I teach THE TRADITION of Ashtanga Yoga

🧘‍♀️Friday 11am


🙏Saturdays 11am

08/08/2023

I started teaching in the gorgeous in Athy last week and it was wonderful. ☺️

If you would like to join me for a deep practice in a beautiful space - get in touch!

🧘‍♀️Wednesdays

5:30pm – 6:45pm Hatha Yoga

7:00pm – 8:15 Yin Yoga
 

🧘‍♀️Friday

11am – 12:15pm Hatha Flow

19/07/2023

Looking forward to Rachel joining us in Willow 😍

☺️I am super excited to announce that I will be teaching yoga in the fabulous from Wednesday 2nd August.

☺️Spaces are limited as this is a cozy new yoga space with semi-private classes.

🧘‍♀️One-to-one yoga classes and yoga therapy sessions also available in this tranquil centre.

30/06/2023

Please help us to raise much need funds to keep the doors open of this much needed service

Willow Community Counselling has been in Athy since January 2018. Whilst we … Willow Community Counselling Services needs your support for Willow Counselling

07/06/2023

A full page spread on this weeks Kildare Nationalist on Ivana Bacik's visit to South Kildare last week...

22/05/2023

We had such a wonderful afternoon at Willow Community Counselling Services Athy today. Welcoming Ivana Bacik to our new location was such an impactful experience for us all. Thank you so much to Aoife Breslin and Senator Mark Wall for organising this event.

31/10/2021

Happy Halloween 🎃 everyone!

28/10/2021

"We are all so desperate to be understood but we forget to be understanding" - Beau Taplin.

When we realize 💡 that everyone has a struggle that we know nothing about, it becomes easier to empathize 🤗 with every person we meet in our community.

21/10/2021

We spotted these kind 🥰 words about Willow Founder and Counsellor, Sharon Malloy

17/10/2021

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14/10/2021

"All addictions are an attempt to solve a problem and that problem is emotional pain" ♥️

Only when we start to address the emotional pain, can we then begin to fix addictive behaviour.

10/10/2021

Today is World Mental Health Day 🌎

We are in the midst of a global crisis that is widening inequalities of health 🏥, and economic 👛 and social circumstances.

The impact of this inequality is seen in the increased demand 📈 for mental health services. Willow experienced an increase of more than 50% in the first eight months of 2021.

That is why we are asking everyone reading to be be mindful 💭 of the mental health of those around you and take time out for self-care 🧘🏻‍♂️ every day.

08/10/2021

By not talking about substance use and misuse, we miss a valuable opportunity to educate 👨‍🏫 young people 🔞 in our society.

Let's end the stigma around substance abuse one conversation at a time 💬

04/10/2021

"Recovery is hard. Regret is harder."

Recovery from addiction is extremely challenging. It is life-changing. Literally.

If you already started your recovery journey; keep going and remember why you started! 🏃🏻‍♀️