New Energy Therapy

New Energy Therapy Psychotherapy / EMDR / Play Therapy
Focused empathic client care, non judgemental. Accredited Therapists in Clondalkin Dublin.

When trauma is processed, the past stops feeling like the present. That’s the power of EMDR.
13/10/2025

When trauma is processed, the past stops feeling like the present. That’s the power of EMDR.

🌟 Play Therapy Spaces Available 🌟We’re delighted to share that Ciara, Play Therapist, will have 2 spaces opening in Octo...
23/09/2025

🌟 Play Therapy Spaces Available 🌟

We’re delighted to share that Ciara, Play Therapist, will have 2 spaces opening in October for young people aged 4–13 years.

✨ Play Therapy can help with:
• Anxiety, fears, or phobias
• Low self-esteem or confidence
• Friendship or social difficulties
• Anger, frustration, or big feelings
• Grief, loss, or separation
• Trauma, neglect, or abuse
• Family changes (divorce, new siblings, moving)
• Difficulties at school (concentration, behaviour)

💚 Benefits of Play Therapy include:
• Improved emotional regulation
• Greater self-confidence and resilience
• Stronger social skills and relationships
• Safer expression of feelings through play
• Healing from past experiences
• Enhanced problem-solving and coping skills
• A happier, more balanced sense of self

🌱 Play allows children to express what words cannot, and through it, they can heal, grow, and thrive.

📍 Based in Clondalkin, Private Practice, Dublin

📩 Get in touch to secure a space for your child ASAP.

Fully Garda Vetted and Experienced Therapist.

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You’ve done everything they said.✅ Talked it through endlessly ✅ Named the patterns, traced them back ✅ Read every boo...
28/08/2025

You’ve done everything they said.

✅ Talked it through endlessly
✅ Named the patterns, traced them back
✅ Read every book you could get your hands on

And still, you feel miles away from connection. Like there’s a glass wall between you and everyone else.

So let me ask gently… if insight alone could heal this, wouldn’t you already be free?

The truth?

Understanding your pain isn’t the same as feeling safe enough to release it.

Save this post if you’ve ever felt stuck in your healing, despite doing all the right work.

The missing piece isn’t more thinking. It’s relational repair, felt in your nervous system, not just your mind.

Here’s what that actually looks like:

👉🏼 Knowledge without nervous system safety can deepen self-blame.
“I know what happened. So why do I still react like this?” Because your body is still bracing for something that’s already over. Healing starts when your system feels you’re safe, not just knows it.

👉🏼 EMDR is powerful, but only when the relationship is safe.
The healing doesn’t just come from eye movements, it comes from being seen. Real change unfolds when the therapist tracks you with care, adjusts the pace, and meets you in the exact moment your body whispers “Am I okay?”

👉🏼 Insight can’t rewire what was wounded in disconnection.
But co-regulation can. When your shame or fear is met with gentle attunement, your brain, bit by bit, learns to soften.

No matter where they start, clients begin to feel genuinely connected, often for the first time in years, when safety is established not just in theory, but in relationships.

I try to live by momento mori in the fact that we are surely dying and won’t be here for very long. Today’s worries will...
21/07/2025

I try to live by momento mori in the fact that we are surely dying and won’t be here for very long. Today’s worries will be soon gone. They won’t matter. This may sound morbid but it’s actually the opposite - it shakes us to get living today. Do that thing you’re putting off. There’s no time.
Live deliberately. Love deeply. Speak truthfully. Create boldly.
One day, there will be no more days.
So live as though each breath is your last — because one day, it will be.

You’ve been told that being sensitive means you’re weak, fragile, or too much. That the world belongs to the thick-skinn...
13/07/2025

You’ve been told that being sensitive means you’re weak, fragile, or too much. That the world belongs to the thick-skinned who “don’t let things get to them.”

But if you’ve been carrying that belief for years, exhausted by how much you feel, it’s probably not because your sensitivity is the problem.

It’s because you never learned how to work with your nervous system—instead, you’ve been fighting it.

Save this post if that’s something you’re ready to unlearn.

The truth is: emotional sensitivity isn’t a flaw.

It’s often a finely tuned survival response—your body’s way of scanning for safety, forged in early experiences where attunement mattered more than expression.

Here’s what I need you to know:

🔹 Sensitivity is attunement—not dysfunction.

If your feelings hit hard and fast, it may be because you’ve always had to pick up on danger quickly. Your nervous system learned to notice the subtle cues others missed.

✳ Try this: Ask, “Is this too much emotion—or is it just emotion I’ve never been allowed to feel fully or safely?”

🔹 Suppression steals your clarity—healing gives it back.

When sensitivity is shamed, you stop trusting your gut. EMDR helps reprocess the “too much” messages and rewire the parts that confuse old fear with current truth.

✳ Micro-step: Notice when you’re “toning yourself down.” Pause. What feels unsafe about showing up fully here?

🔹 You don’t need to be less feeling—you need more space inside to hold what you feel.

That’s the difference trauma work can make.

You might believe emotional strength looks like control—but peace often came when clients stopped silencing themselves and started honouring their sensitivity as intelligence.

Comment EMDR to get the link to trauma-informed psychotherapy that helps you heal at the roots—so you can feel deeply without shutting down or apologising for who you are.

You’ve done everything they said.✅ Talked it through endlessly ✅ Named the patterns, traced them back ✅ Read every boo...
23/06/2025

You’ve done everything they said.

✅ Talked it through endlessly
✅ Named the patterns, traced them back
✅ Read every book you could get your hands on

And still—you feel miles away from connection. Like there’s a glass wall between you and everyone else.

So let me ask gently… if insight alone could heal this, wouldn’t you already be free?

The truth?

Understanding your pain isn’t the same as feeling safe enough to release it.

Save this post if you’ve ever felt stuck in your healing, despite doing all the right work.

The missing piece isn’t more thinking. It’s relational repair—felt in your nervous system, not just your mind.

Here’s what that actually looks like:

👉🏼 Knowledge without nervous system safety can deepen self-blame.
“I know what happened. So why do I still react like this?” Because your body is still bracing for something that’s already over. Healing starts when your system feels you’re safe—not just knows it.

👉🏼 EMDR is powerful, but only when the relationship is safe.
The healing doesn’t just come from eye movements—it comes from being seen. Real change unfolds when the therapist tracks you with care, adjusts the pace, and meets you in the exact moment your body whispers “Am I okay?”

👉🏼 Insight can’t rewire what was wounded in disconnection.
But co-regulation can. When your shame or fear is met with gentle attunement, your brain—bit by bit—learns to soften.

No matter where they start, clients begin to feel genuinely connected—often for the first time in years—when safety is established not just in theory, but in relationship.

They told you breathwork, mindfulness, and “just calm down” were the keys to healing. So you lit the candle. Sat still....
03/06/2025

They told you breathwork, mindfulness, and “just calm down” were the keys to healing.

So you lit the candle. Sat still. Focused on your breath.

And instead of peace, you felt your chest tighten. Anxiety surge. Tears rising—or nothing at all.

The truth? Calm isn’t always safe for a nervous system that’s still bracing for danger.

What you felt wasn’t failure. It was your body doing its job.

📌 Save this for when “calm” feels impossible.

The mistake most people make is assuming regulation = stillness.
But real nervous system regulation starts by meeting your body where it actually is—not where you think it “should” be.

Here’s why “just calm down” can backfire ⤵

✨ 1. Stillness can feel like danger to a dysregulated body
If you’re stuck in fight/flight, stopping feels like letting your guard down. That’s not resistance. It’s your biology protecting you.
👉 Ask: “What state am I in—mobilised or frozen?” Then respond from there, not from shame.

✨ 2. Your body needs movement before it can rest
When we push stillness too soon, our system feels trapped. Try grounding through movement—walks, rhythmic tapping, even conscious fidgeting.
👉 Especially in EMDR, we use bilateral stimulation to soothe without shutting you down.

✨ 3. Calming isn’t the goal—safety is
Regulation isn’t about silencing your system—it’s about helping it feel safe enough to soften.
👉 Replace “Why can’t I calm down?” with “What does my nervous system need to feel safe right now?”

People have used this approach to feel genuine relief in just a few sessions—even if deep breathing or meditation always backfired before.

And just like that, the journey comes to a close 🎓✨As their lecturer for this counselling and psychotherapy course, I’ve...
31/05/2025

And just like that, the journey comes to a close 🎓✨

As their lecturer for this counselling and psychotherapy course, I’ve had the privilege of watching each of these amazing students grow into compassionate, insightful, and capable future therapists.

Each one brought their heart, strength, and openness into the room, and I couldn’t be more inspired by the growth we’ve shared together.

This was the last class of their counselling and psychotherapy certificate course here at .

Here’s to future of these therapists, healers, and changemakers as they now progress to the BSc in Counselling & Psychotherapy 💛.
I have personal experience of following this path and it was the best decision I could have made.

Wow! Unexpected but gratefully received gift from a client today. Very thoughtful and appreciated. 🙏✨
27/05/2025

Wow! Unexpected but gratefully received gift from a client today. Very thoughtful and appreciated. 🙏✨

If you’re still waiting for burnout to ease on its own… stop. Trying to push through it—by managing your time better, w...
21/05/2025

If you’re still waiting for burnout to ease on its own… stop.

Trying to push through it—by managing your time better, working smarter, setting tighter routines—only keeps you stuck in survival mode.

What actually moves the needle?
Learning to work with your nervous system—not against it.

Because no amount of colour-coded schedules will regulate a system that doesn’t feel safe enough to pause.

🛑 Save this for when “just one more thing” starts to feel like too much.

The truth is:
Burnout isn’t a time problem.
It’s a nervous system signal.

Here’s where it often begins:
You’re over-functioning not because you’re lazy or undisciplined—but because your body has been in threat-response mode for too long.

That flatness, irritation, or mental fog?
It’s not failure—it’s a physiological state.

3 insights that might reframe everything:

1. Overdrive isn’t strength—it’s survival.
Your nervous system may have learned early on that slowing down wasn’t safe.
Ask: What am I afraid would happen if I truly stopped?
Awareness is the first step to building inner safety.

2. To-do lists won’t soothe an unsafe body.
Burnout recovery isn’t about better time blocks—it’s about gently completing stress cycles.
Start slow: orient to your space, soften your jaw, take one full exhale.

3. Your exhaustion is an invitation—not a weakness.
That collapse you’re feeling? It’s your system asking to be listened to, not bypassed.
What if rest wasn’t earned—but necessary for healing?

This trauma-informed approach has helped so many move from chronic depletion to a steadier nervous system—and a life that no longer feels like a race to survive.

Honored to lecture such passionate and insightful future therapists. Truly grateful for the experience!
19/05/2025

Honored to lecture such passionate and insightful future therapists. Truly grateful for the experience!

If you still catch yourself thinking, “I’m too emotional,” it’s not because you’re unstable. It’s because the spaces yo...
13/05/2025

If you still catch yourself thinking, “I’m too emotional,” it’s not because you’re unstable.

It’s because the spaces you grew up in couldn’t hold your full emotional truth. So your body did the holding for you.

🌿 Save this for the days when your feelings feel like “too much.”

Here’s where I see this mislabeling show up the most:

1️⃣ You confuse survival stress with personal failure
If you were met with inconsistency, criticism, or silence when you needed comfort—your nervous system shaped itself to expect abandonment. That hyper-response? It’s not “overreacting.” It’s being overprotective from years of not being met.

✨ Ask: What does this feeling want me to know—not fix, not hide, but understand?

2️⃣ You apologise for your tears, your anger, your joy—even in therapy
Years of emotional rejection teach us to shrink the edges of who we are. If you were conditioned to tone it down, even your tenderness might feel shameful.

✨ Reframe: Your emotions aren’t asking for approval—they’re asking to be allowed.

3️⃣ You aim for ‘regulated’ but end up ‘repressed’
There’s a difference between calming the nervous system and silencing it. Emotional regulation doesn’t mean bottling emotion. It means co-creating a safe enough relationship—for your body to risk feeling again.

✨ Practice: Slow presence. Soft eye contact. A question like “Are you still with me?” goes further than any grounding exercise.

What started as simply naming emotion in the therapy room has turned into deep nervous system re-patterning—for clients learning, finally, they’re not too much to be held.

Address

Oak Rise, Greenpark
Dublin
22

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 2pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 11am - 4pm

Telephone

+353876683829

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