At the Connolly Counselling Centre our philosophy is to support our clients in their journey with compassion, kindness and integrity.
Mental Health Webinars
We are offering a series of online webinars from the therapists at the Connolly Counselling Centre which we started in 2023 with a webinar on Personality Disorders.
Other webinars included: Understanding Addiction, Co-dependency and Pornography Addiction.
Future webinars include: The Menopause, Eating Disorders, Five Stages of Pornography Addiction and Coercive Control.
Webinars will be presented over Zoom by Centre therapists specialised in these topics.
Contact Reception for more details or send us an email to join our database for details of upcoming webinars.
Men’s Group
John Lalor is a chartered psychologist, fully accredited psychotherapist, and coach. He is setting up a men’s group for which he is currently seeking men over the age of 30 who are interested.
Who is John?…
John has been working at the Connolly Counselling Centre for a number of years. He has worked in general psychotherapy practice, as well as in child and adolescent, adult, intellectual disabilities, psychiatric, brain injury, drug & alcohol, and autism services. John originally trained as a psychologist, before entering the world of psychotherapy. He is married with three children and a dog and is dangerously close to his 50s. He coaches rugby, and despite a long list of injuries, recently attained his black belt in judo – proving that age and lack of talent is no obstacle.
What does such a group entail?…
This is not therapy. And it’s not a support group. It’s simply a group for men. John is not particularly prescriptive in his approach, and the idea is partially inspired by the work of English psychotherapist Jerry Hyde, with whom John has had a few chats about this group, and will be receiving supervision. Jerry and his wife produced a movie about one of his groups, called Make Me A Man, which is well worth watching. Other inspirations come from author Sebastian Junger, especially his book, Tribe – indeed, it’s the lack of a tribe for most men that has long struck John as a key issue in society. John also recommends Endurance, by Alfred Lansing – a true story of men surviving in the harshest conditions Earth can throw
at us.
This is a space for men to meet regularly to discuss what’s going on in their lives. While John will not be setting an agenda, typical topics might be:
- Shame
- Loneliness
- Regret
- Resentment
- Fatherhood
- Childhood
- Romance
- Relationships
- Friendships
- Identity within the Family
- Identity within the Community
- Self-Esteem / Self-Concept
- Stress