Dublin Counselling & Psychotherapy

01/07/2020

We have been slowly reopening our face to face services in June and will continue to do so over the coming weeks. We are following strict health and safety guidelines to ensure the safety of both our therapists and clients. We now have appointments available to individuals and couples. We will also continue to offer our services online where clients are not in a position to attend one of our centres in Wicklow Street, Dublin 2, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 and Wood Quay, Galway.
Its been a very challenging few months for all of us and good to be reopening our doors again 😀

05/04/2020

As technology becomes perhaps more important than ever in every kind of human relationship, I found this a brilliantly presented and prescient reminder of how it can lead to our deceiving ourselves; how it can work for or against our relational goals in real life; of the lifelong challenge of learning how to really be with others and how to be alone. Although the technology has moved on since 2012, maybe the basic issues are the same? Interesting to watch this talk with an awareness of the seemingly inexorable rise to dominance of political and business leaders with narcissistic and psychopathic traits.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_connected_but_alone?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

21/03/2020

Mind and Body Works services are now available online! The centres in Dublin and Galway are closed now to protect staff and clients. However, our counselling, psychotherapy and other services will now be available online, to new clients throughout Ireland. This includes, from Monday 23rd March, a live chat facility for enquiries and to set up appointments.

https://www.mindandbodyworks.com/cms/online-services/

Range of service We offer a full range of online counselling, psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt), psychosexual therapy and clinical supervision

21/03/2020

https://www2.hse.ie/wellbeing/mental-health/minding-your-mental-health-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak.html?fbclid=IwAR0JtdoMqLgEptrf521GM7QMA1hT_WeDJbDKaOiEISPQM8fXaUCN1GZLJxk

Infectious disease outbreaks like coronavirus (COVID-19), can cause stress and anxiety. Read advice on how to look after your mental health.

07/03/2019

"Conversion or Reparative therapy is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation/gender identity/expression. Such practices have been widely rejected by mainstream medical and mental health organisations...."

IACP condemns the practice of conversion therapy

13/02/2019

I will just leave this here... The longer I work in mental health, the more fed up I become with the 'normalisation' agenda regarding widespread 'recreational' drug use in our young people, especially our young men, and the wilful ignorance of the harm to the developing brain (not to mention the brains of those who are well old enough to know better). Don't even get me started on the general attitude to excessive alcohol consumption. End of rant. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/13/cannabis-smoking-in-teenage-years-linked-to-adulthood-depression

Study finds one in 14 cases in under-35s could be avoided if teenagers did not use the drug

07/01/2019

A timely edition of Start the Week highlighting the health benefits of natural light and challenging myths about what makes people happy, as well as information on emerging science regarding links between depression and inflammation

Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.

07/09/2018

My understanding of the research on this is that, of all the potentially harmful factors for children of separating parents, the most harmful factor is conflict between the parents

A judge has said that all he wants to do at the end of a day at the family law court is to have a shower after listening to vitriol and bitterness from people before the court.

24/07/2018

Much (common) sense talked in this programme including reinforcing the obvious e.g. no phones in the bedroom (and no ridiculous excuses re: needing the alarm... seriously, you fell for that?...) also importance of the adults in the house staying off devices when with family, and addressing their own device addiction first...

How to parent in the era of the smartphone?

29/06/2018

Andrew is delighted to have recently joined the team of therapists in private practice at Mind & Body Works, just off Grafton Street in Dublin City Centre.

Counselling & Psychotherapy

29/04/2018

"Is the desire to achieve closure in the courtroom, emotional release and catharsis, working through trauma - ideas extraneous to law and the proper purpose of the courts - threatening the adversarial system as a whole?"

Helena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and mind doctors.

12/04/2018

I can strongly recommend Helen Byrne's 8 week mindfulness course and yoga and meditation classes. Helen is one of Ireland's most experienced, practiced and qualified teachers of mindfulness, a warm and inspiring human being, and a passionate advocate of mindfulness, which is a way of life for her. If you are interested in exploring how mindfulness practice could contribute to your wellbeing then Helen and her colleagues at The Mindfulness Centre are the people to talk to.

Tuesday Morning MBSR with Helen Byrne in Dublin 2: Starts April 17th Location: Date: Tuesday 17th April - Tuesday 5th June Time: 10 am - 12:30 pm Cost: €350 with a number of reduced cost places available Facilitator: Helen Byrne Course Type: 8 week MBSR/MBCT course Venue: The Mindfulness Centre, 3...

19/12/2017

03/11/2017

Veteran broadcaster Vincent Browne was talking at the Festival of Politics.

27/10/2017

Former Irish soccer player Richie Sadlier says it shouldn’t be a stigma to need help with your mental health

07/09/2017

Andrew McLellan MIACP is an accredited counsellor, psychotherapist and Gestalt therapist working in Dublin City Centre. If you would like to know more about the practice, or to make an appointment, please visit:
http://personaltherapy.ie/About.php

07/09/2017

Mindfulness 8 week programme specifically designed for teachers, staff and parents at The Sanctuary, Dublin 7 with experienced mindfulness practitioner Dominic Cogan

Mindfulness for Teachers: .b Foundations is an 8-week programme designed for teachers, staff, and parents who want to develop their own mindfulness practice

01/09/2017

"A child learns about the world by manipulating a toy with his hands, feeling it with his mouth and throwing it on the ground. The child’s brain registers the connections. A small child’s brain cannot develop without this sense of touch and interaction. Light and noise from electronic screens capture a child’s attention, but they do not lead to healthy brain development"

New clinical case studies have found that many young children who spend too much screen time have symptoms labeled as “autism.”