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Separation anxiety

16 Sep 2019

As the new school year takes over many Irish houses, the topic of separation anxiety becomes common around many dinner tables. For ...

Watching pain: How to deal with someone who can't/won't help themselves (addiction, bereavement)

05 Sep 2019

When someone in our lives is struggling, it causes within each of us a particular reaction. Some of us will seek to ‘save’, some w ...

Parenting adults

19 Aug 2019

Around the time of year of the leaving cert results, many parents put themselves in the shoes of those whose children have reached ...

Dealing with a family illness

12 Aug 2019

Having a loved one get a diagnosis that brings their life or health into question is a debilitating piece for any family. How we c ...

Impact of Social Isolation

31 Jul 2019

Social isolation affects our internal sense of self in a number of ways.  First of all, it has bearing on our self-esteem. W ...

Eating Disorders

08 Jul 2019

Eating Disorders – Peer pressure or influence from social media? From a therapeutic point of view, any action that ...

Major Life Stressors in the Marriage

30 Apr 2019

Marriage counselling therapists meet couples all the time who are on the verge of or have just come through a major life event. &n ...

Food and mental health: What you eat impacts how you feel so lets get experimenting

25 Apr 2019

We don’t all like the same foods, in the same vein we don’t all respond well or poorly to the same foods so how do we know what ce ...

Raising Children with Different Parenting Approaches

15 Apr 2019

Having children is a part of marriage that in itself is fraught with issues.  Whether or not to procreate and when to do so a ...

Financial Stress in long term Relationships

09 Apr 2019

As human beings, money is, for the majority, something that we think about more than we care for.   How we deal with f ...