Norah Finn Therapy

18/11/2025

ABSOLUTELY YES! There is nothing wrong or shameful about having a diagnosis of a mental health illness. Many people do yet still maintain a mentally healthy life. They empower themselves to take control of their life. They do what is required to restore effective control of their life. They know when to seek support, what support they need, and they don’t hesitate to ask for help. They know what needs need to be met and start moving towards meeting their needs.

Our mental health is about knowing when we’re struggling and taking responsibility and doing what is required to stay balanced, grounded and well. To know when support is needed and not to be neglectful of asking for that support.

Our mental health requires us to take responsibility for our life. To manage our life, relationships and situations in an effective way. Doing what is required to get our life back on track is a mentally healthy choice. Our mental health requires us to manage effectively how we relate with self and others in this world.

We can all struggle. How we cope with our struggles defines how mentally healthy we are. 💜

18/11/2025

CHOICE THEORY IRELAND — Your learning journey in Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, and Glasserian Psychology, starts here! CTI - unlocking the door to your personal freedom!

At CTI - we deliver Dr Glassers teachings and principles with expertise, knowledge, integrity, professionalism and to a very high standard, the entire way to your Certification Process. This will always be given our full attention. We understand that to learn you must feel psychological safe. Once you entrust us with your journey, it is our job to create an emotionally safe environment for you to learn.

Our focus is grounded in the students experience in learning with us. Our educators create environments that invite our students to experience respect, equality, inclusion, connection, trust, humanity, and humility. We remove “schooling” and replace it with empowered education.

Our Instructors are all highly skilled in their own fields of expertise, including Glasserian Psychology of course, but they do not hide behind their credentials. As educators, we are all responsible and accountable for the psychological safety of our students as they train with us. Your wellbeing and the quality of the relationship between educator and student is our number one priority.

Maybe you’ve being considering updating your skills in Glasserian Psychology? Watch this space. New Instructors, trainings, events, CPD delivery, connections, fun, etc, all coming soon. We’re warming up for the year ahead. Sign up on website to be kept updated www.choicetheoryireland.com

Maybe 2026 will be the year you’ll start or complete your training . Our door is always open, our kettle is always on, there’s always a human voice to talk with, and we look forward to welcoming you.

“You don’t need to be great to start, but you do need to start to be great”! Choice Theory - it just might be the best gift that you’ll ever give to yourself. 🌻

17/11/2025

GLASSERIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND INTERNAL CONTROL PSYCHOLOGY is a beautiful way to live a mentally healthy life. We move inwards. We take personal responsibility. We become our own problem solvers. We all have a need to be heard, valued, and seen. We all have a right, and more importantly, a need, to critically think. If we don’t critically think and come up with our own answers, then we’ll always be a slave to someone who attempts to control us by believing they know what’s best for others. No one has a right to negate our active cognitive process. No one can tell you what’s right for you. Except you.

The days of running to someone looking for our answers are gone. No one is an authority on our lives. We don’t need anyone to grow our awareness. Our awareness is an inside job. We look at what we desire to look at when the time is right for us. There is no need to be the best version of yourself. If we’re moving through life and we’re not harming anyone else, then we’re absolutely perfect just as we are. Life itself teaches us according to its clock. We do not have any control of external factors, only how we choose to respond to them. There are no teachers. There are just information givers. That’s all we have to give to another. If the information is relevant to us, it will be useful. If not, we’ll discard it.

Psychology teaches us why and how we operate as human beings on this earth. As Friedrich Nietzsche so beautifully said, “If you know the why, you can live any how.” Your only teacher is you. Psychology gives us information and tools to answer our own internal questions. That’s personal empowerment. And empowered people empower the people around them, Our internal expansion of self indirectly ripples outwards. Everyone benefits. 💜

17/11/2025

CHOICE THEORY AND LEAD MANAGEMENT must be understood as Dr Glassers intended: as an internal practice, not an external tool. They are not concepts we apply to others or techniques we impose on systems. Doing so entirely misses the point. Lead Management requires a person to internalise Choice Theory and Reality Therapy so deeply that they begin to operate from Internal Control Psychology. It is not something you “use” on your organisation; it is a particular way of being as a leader.

A system in which the leader is always right, avoids accountability, never apologises, relies on authority and control, is a boss-managed system. This is the complete opposite of Dr. Glasser’s principles of Lead Management. A true Lead Manager is committed to growth, connection, and belonging. They train in Choice Theory/Reality Therapy and return to their workplace ready to live those principles. They do not manipulate the system, but consistently practice internal control themselves. They want to build equal, caring, and connecting relationships with those they are leading. After all, people are at the very heart of what they do. Not commodities to use to get results.

Lead Managers are internally motivated people who create the conditions for others to work and live from the same place of internal control. They remove fear and coercion and replace them with connection, belonging, involvement, equality, respect, integrity, and psychological safety. In a Lead Managed environment, every person is valued equally and has the right to a voice and a sense of belonging.

Lead Management is not taught; it is embodied. When a manager begins operating from Internal Control Psychology, people notice. They feel the difference. They move closer. They want to participate in the vision. They feel the connection. The leader becomes simply another human being, without hierarchy, moral superiority, or defensiveness. They take responsibility for their own behaviour and openly own their mistakes. This is what creates genuine psychological safety, and only with psychological safety can an organisation truly thrive. www.choicetheoryireland.com

15/11/2025

CHOICE THEORY IRELAND - Unlocking the door to your personal freedom!

Join our community dedicated to enhancing personal and professional growth through Choice Theory principles, promoting internal motivation, and improving relationships for a healthier mindset.

15/11/2025

14/11/2025

WE ARE ALL INTERNALLY MOTIVATED TO LIVE OUR LIFE AS WE CHOOSE TO. You cannot control anyone. You cannot make anyone do what you want them to do. If they do give into your demands to keep you happy, you can be guaranteed it won’t last, and they’ll end up resenting you.

The only person you can control is you. It’s up to you to meet your own needs. The greatest source of our unhappiness comes from wanting others to behave the way we want them to behave. It never works or lasts. So it’s best to give it up. Let go of control. Ultimately, you’re only tormenting yourself!

Take responsibility and accountability for your own actions. Then leave others alone to do the same. Good relationships are formed by relating well together without the use of external control.

Give up the need to control others, and you’ll solve your relationships problems, especially the relationship you’re having with yourself. 💜

14/11/2025

CHOICE THEORY IRELAND.
YOU HAVE THE POWER to create the life you want. The measure of your success is not about how many times you fall down, it’s about how many times you’ll choose to get back up and go again!

Our greatest teacher is our last mistake. When we view our life through a self supportive lens, we’ll see our “mistakes” as opportunities for growth.

There are no mistakes, just opportunities to improve. 🌻

13/11/2025

OUR FAMILY SYSTEMS CONSTELLATION TRAINING IS NOW FULL, but it is a training I deliver on a regular basis. Watch this space for future trainings.

I am such an avid Choice Theory fan that sometimes I wonder if that is the only training people feel I deliver? As a psychotherapist, I use and train in many therapeutic skills and modalities within my therapeutic practice. Choice Theory I use as a veil over all of them. For example, this group will be Lead Managed in true Glasserian style, but it will be Family Systems Constellation Work that I will deliver over the next year, taught through the teachings of Bert Hellinger.

Family Constellation Work is a modality that fits beautifully with my own soul. It is soft, gentle, real, and gets to the heart of the issue. I have 35 years of experience, both personally and professionally, in this work, added and delivered by my own particular way of being. It is work that never ceases to surprise me - in a tender and real way. Every time I deliver this training, I come away more authentic. There is no place to hide in systemic work. It is raw, real, and allows us to deeply acknowledge what is!

Welcome to the Therapists who will arrive in the morning to experience this training. I am honoured to journey for the next year with you all. We are all colleagues together. Growing, sharing, adding to our therapeutic practices. May we serve each other well.

And, I’ll have the kettle on for you. Nothing starts in my services until we have a cup of tea together. Thank you for choosing me and my services to train with. 💜

13/11/2025

LET GO OF OUR NEGATIVE CONDITIONING 💜
Let’s let go, for a moment, of assumptions, fears, expectations. Imagine no past weighing you down. No future pulling you forward. Only this moment, quiet, spacious, and full of possibility. What would you do, think, feel, or create, if your mind were truly free?

Therapy supports us in letting go of our internal critic and judge. You are the only one who can hold you back. You are the only one who can free you up. 💜