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Building Healthy Relationships: Recognising Red Flags and Seeking Support

16 Feb 2024

Relationships exist on a spectrum, from healthy to abusive. What started off as a healthy relationship, can become unhealthy. Similarly, unh ...

Benefits of slowing down in stress management and overcoming traumatic and stress related symptoms

06 Feb 2024

In the world of therapy, it is important for both therapists and clients to understand why we should take things slow. This article is all a ...

Navigating the Winter Blues: A Guide to Overcoming Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in Ireland

22 Jan 2024

With January settled in, the morning frost blankets the grass, temperatures plummet below zero, and daylight hours remain reduced. Many peop ...

What is Normal? Understanding the Complexities of Statistical and Social Definitions in Human Behaviour

22 Dec 2023

Normal is an everyday term we use. For most of us, it has a reasonably clear meaning; the opposite of abnormal, the way it should be, what’s ...

Navigating Relationship Dynamics: Strategies for Growth and Repair (Part 2)

11 Dec 2023

In part 1, we explored the conflict part of relationship dynamics in which we examined the drama triangle and ego states and ...

Navigating Relationship Dynamics: Understanding Conflict (Part 1)

07 Dec 2023

Relationships, of all kinds, are an important part of being human. They are places where we can get our needs met and feel connected to ...

Building Your Personalised Self-Care Toolkit for Tough Days

13 Nov 2023

Looking after ourselves can be easier when we feel good. When the motivation and enthusiasm, and zest for life are there self-care becomes ...

Comfort Zone

12 Jul 2023

A comfort zone can be defined as a psychological state in which things from the environment are close and familiar to a person and under the ...

Somatic Psychotherapy and Mindfulness Meditation

29 Jun 2023

Somatic psychotherapy acknowledges the neuroscientific fact that body and brain physiology and the mind are intertwined (Levine, 2015; Van ...

The Self Revealed by Love

24 Feb 2022

Of the three classical Greek forms of love (philos, agape, eros) the latter, romantic love, for most people is still intimately linked to th ...