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Protecting Our Mental Health

12th November 2015
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| Categories: abuse, adolescence, attitudes, bullying, counselling, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Finding the Right Counsellor or Psychotherapist, Gender Identity Counselling & Psychotherapy, listen, Mental Health Awareness Project, psychotherapy, relationships, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family, self-doubt, self-esteem, stress, trauma, Trauma Counselling

Sometimes it’s difficult to explain or talk about our fears, anxieties and worries. Quite a few people are too shy to ask for help when it feels like their world is falling apart. Mental health is a description of the state of one’s mind, feelings and emotions. It is an integral part of our overall…

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Posted in abuse, adolescence, attitudes, bullying, counselling, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Finding the Right Counsellor or Psychotherapist, Gender Identity Counselling & Psychotherapy, listen, Mental Health Awareness Project, psychotherapy, relationships, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family, self-doubt, self-esteem, stress, trauma, Trauma Counselling Tagged abuse, addictions, Analyst, anxiety, Ashbourne, Balbriggan, bereavement, Bernadette, coach, confidence, consultant, counselling, County, depression, disorders, divorce, donabate, dublin, eating, esteem, fertility, gender, issues, life, loss, Lusk, Meade, natal, Naul, North, Oldtown, post, problems, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, relationships, Rush, self, separation, sex, Skerrries, suicide, Swords, teenage

When we Stumble, it is Simply Part of the Dance

3rd November 2015
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| Categories: Bonney Elliott, Communication, counselling, couples, creative, Creative Arts, Dance, Finding the Right Counsellor or Psychotherapist, psychotherapy, relationships

As we struggle to wrap minds and bodies around a new sequence, our wise dance teacher asserts that Argentine tango is not complicated, but complex. His words give me pause, and hope. Tango looks complicated, and takes years of practice to master. Yet, even the most dazzling choreography is essentially a pattern of basic steps. […]

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Posted in Bonney Elliott, Communication, counselling, couples, creative, Creative Arts, Dance, Finding the Right Counsellor or Psychotherapist, psychotherapy, relationships

The Online Presence of You and Your Private Practice

27th October 2015
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| Categories: counselling, Private Practice, psycotherapy, Shelley Skelton

  I heard some good advice in the business class that I took last spring and that is to maximize your online presence so that potential clients can learn more about you. I do not tweet, nor am I a fan of Facebook, however, even someone like me (and maybe you) can establish an online […]

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Pinterest Strikes again

26th October 2015
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| Categories: counselling, Dawn Schell, Pinterest, psychotherapy, School Counselling

Picture this.   There are four teams of three eleven year olds each gathered around a table.   Each team has a piece of paper with four parallel lines, a plastic knife and a tube of toothpaste. Their mission? In 20 seconds squeeze as much toothpaste as possible out of the tube to cover the lines. Thirty […]

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Self-Care Is Not a Luxury

23rd October 2015
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| Categories: counselling, Lisa Shouldice, psychotherapy, self-care, Self-Care for Counsellors

I am so excited at this time of year when I open my Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts to see lots of articles, links and Blogs circulating about self-care. But I do think we lose sight of self-care as an all-day, everyday practice, including the times we need a bit extra. So let’s open up […]

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Do You Help People Heal From Traumatic Events?

14th May 2015
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| Categories: counselling, Creative Arts, creative play, healing, Lisa Shouldice, psychotherapy, sandplay, trauma, Trauma Counselling

My work as a therapist has included working with clients that are present with abuse histories, and often complex trauma. I find this can take years to heal and is hard emotionally and spiritually on both the client and the psychotherapist. So enter my training in Sandtray therapy! Sandplay is a wonderful technique that taps […]

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Posted in counselling, Creative Arts, creative play, healing, Lisa Shouldice, psychotherapy, sandplay, trauma, Trauma Counselling

Adult Bullying: Under the Bully’s Influence

13th May 2015
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| Categories: bullying, confusion, counselling, fear, isolation, Jonathan Delisle, Marie-France Hirigoyen, Parenting, Children and the Classroom, psychotherapy, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family, self-doubt, stress, victim

This blog post on bullying has to do with the short-term effects that bullying has on the victims while under the bully’s influence.  The points I will be explaining are taken from Marie-France Hirigoyen’s book “Le harcèlement moral: la violence perverse au quotidien”.  Although the points are mainly hers, I will be explaining them in […]

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Posted in bullying, confusion, counselling, fear, isolation, Jonathan Delisle, Marie-France Hirigoyen, Parenting, Children and the Classroom, psychotherapy, Relationships, Marriage, and the Family, self-doubt, stress, victim

Outlander

13th May 2015
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| Categories: blog, Bonney Elliott, counselling, Creative Arts, Haiti, outlander, psychotherapy, therapeutic writing

In 2013, I spend two weeks volunteering in Haiti. A colleague suggests writing a travel blog. Writing is not new to me. I have been an intermittent scribbler of poetry, short stories and personal journaling since childhood. Writing a blog is new to me. Intriguing, but fraught with some trepidation about publishing first-person reflections. Having […]

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The Map and the Compass: Creating a New Dream

12th May 2015
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| Categories: Career Counselling, career transition, compass, counselling, decision-making, map, mid-career shifts, psychotherapy, Sally Halliday, Shifting Sands, Steve O'Donahue

“What did you dream about doing when you were a child?” When someone asked you “what do you want to be when you grow up?” what did you say? As a career counsellor, I often want to ask this question to new clients, as a way to get them telling a story that is easy […]

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Posted in Career Counselling, career transition, compass, counselling, decision-making, map, mid-career shifts, psychotherapy, Sally Halliday, Shifting Sands, Steve O'Donahue

Students in a Supporting Role

11th May 2015
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| Categories: adolescence, Asperger’s Syndrome, counselling, Mike Peirce, peer resources network, peers, psychotherapy, resource, school, structure, Students, Support

A number of years ago I conducted a student health and lifestyle survey in my school to consider the effectiveness of our student support resources. What we discovered won’t surprise many but it was still an eye opener. In spite of having access to trained counsellors, health professionals and supportive teachers, our students turned to […]

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Bernadette Meade graduated from PCI college in 2011 with an Honours Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Bernadette is a fully accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). At The Orchard Counselling our approach is mainly person centered but is adjusted to suit the individual client. We deal with a broad range of issues from anxiety, bereavement, addictions, eating disorders, depression, post natal depression,suicide, teenage problems, confidence and self esteem, sex abuse, separation and divorce, relationships, loss, fertility and gender issues..

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