What is your Professional Identity?

Many people come to therapy with important questions around PROFESSIONAL identity.  These questions may be triggered by a crisis at work i.e., sudden redundancy or a feeling of being unfairly ‘managed out of the business,’ a horrible boss, a difficult...

Cultivating The Space Between

How To Make Relationships Work!   Often, in Imago Relationship Therapy, we talk a lot about the space between a couple.  It is that space which walks into the counselling office, and it is that space with which an Imago couples counsellor works.  ...

The Importance of Creating Space

In life, we must create SPACE for the things we want.    These things can be as diverse as a new job, new clients, new relationship, new trousers (!) or new plants in the garden. For any and all of those things, there is an element of clearing and making space...

How do I know when to seek counselling?

  It is perfectly normal in life to have periods of sadness and periods of joy.  In fact, it is part of the human experience.  If we had no pain or sadness, we could not recognise or experience true joy – just like white is not white without black. If we each...

The ‘Anti Couples Workshop’ for Couples

  When I tell people I’m a couples counsellor in Galway, I find that there are two very common reactions.  Some people roll their eyes, and ask me where I was a year ago when they were going through their divorce.  Others start telling me their problems, as...

Self Care In 5 Simple Steps

Sometimes, the term ‘selfcare‘ can sound extravagant, indulgent, new-agey (especially with a hashtag!) or simply something we just don’t have any time for in our busy lives.  For some people, it even sounds inherently WRONG, as though speaking about...