Counselling and Psychotherapy can be of great use at different times in our lives: having a place where we can explore what is troubling us, having someone provide us with a confidential and non judgemental listening space where we can feel understood, can be the catalyst for change and personal growth.
*About therapy*
The aim of therapy is to help people who
are worried, distressed, or in emotional pain, and it can be of great support in times of crisis or change. Sometimes it can feel like we are lost. We can be weighed down with painful experiences, and feel like we have nowhere to turn. Counselling and psychotherapy can be a place where we can untangle and explore our experiences and get a better insight into how best to move forward. We can have a place to bring all of ourselves, a place to be truly heard. We can allow our deeper selves to have a voice. Counsellors and therapists are professionals trained to provide a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can share the feelings, concerns, and difficulties that they are encountering in their lives at a particular time. Sometimes therapy will be about focusing on a particular issue that is causing a person distress, be it a relationship break up or a job loss; and other times it is a deeper exploratory process looking at events in earlier life that continue to interfere with our present day experience. Sometimes it is about allowing ourselves to feel, to let go of holding on and have a space to breathe and allow our feelings to be felt and to be heard. Often, our thoughts can be an obstacle to health and we can be very critical of ourselves. Therapy can help untangle the realistic thoughts and help us see things in a more objective manner. It can provide us with a space to be mindful and just allow us to be.
*Therapists*
Christopher Place
BA Psych (Hons), Dip in Counselling and Psychotherapy
*Contact details*
E-mail: chris@galwaycitycounselling.ie
Phone: 0894206860
Christopher trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist with the Tivoli Institute. He works in an integrative and humanistic way, seeing clients as experts in their own lives, and draws from different therapeutic approaches to best meet the needs of the client. Christopher obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 2004, and worked as a Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology before embarking on a professional training in Psychotherapy.
