Last week we published an article on Understanding PTSD by Teyhou Smyth, our counsellor in London. This week we are following up with her article on managing PTSD. As always, we want to not only help you to pinpoint issues, but to find solutions...
Read moreRegular readers of our blog will be aware that our previous two blog posts dealt with anxiety. This week’s blog post looks at a condition that goes much deeper than anxiety – post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Centre founder Owen...
Read moreFollowing on from last week’s blog post examining anxiety, we thought it would be a good idea to provide a few tips on how to manage anxiety. Here at the Centre, we don’t believe in only identifying problems or issues in our...
Read moreWe are well and truly into 2019 now, settled back into school and work routines, going about our lives and smiling for our social media photos. But how many of us are hiding our anxiety? Whether it be short-term about a specific current...
Read moreAdvice for Parents on Dealing with the Momo Challenge Unfortunately the Momo Challenge “game” has come to Ireland. Parents are concerned about their children playing it and being negatively effected by it, as has happened in other...
Read moreWhile we usually focus on our mental health in our Therapists Thoughts blog posts, here at the Centre we acknowledge that our physical health is intertwined with our mental health. This is why we also offer support services like massage therapy...
Read moreIt’s Valentine’s Day! Whether you are cynical or sweet about February 14th, there is no doubt that everyone harbours a desire in their hearts to be found attractive to another. And to be told so publicly and showered with gifts? Even...
Read moreSince today is Parental Alienation Awareness Day, it seems like the perfect opportunity to create a conversation regarding the little known or acknowledged adverse childhood experience labelled “Parental Alienation”. Brian...
Read moreWhile we focus on organising our personal goals and agenda for the coming year, many of us at work are also tasked with planning the training agenda for our offices – meetings, workshops, lunchtime talks etc. While traditionally office...
Read moreLately on this blog we’ve nodded at new year’s resolutions, self-reflection, and changing things, people and ourselves. It still being January – marked in some parts of the world as Mental Wellness Month – in today’s...
Read moreHow is everyone’s 2019 going so far? Did you make new any year’s resolutions? Have you kept them so far? We make promises to ourselves all the time (and we break them too), not just at the start of a new year. And many of these...
Read moreWell, for most of us the holidays are over and it is back to the reality of ordinary, every day life. Christmas may have had its stresses, as we wrote about in previous posts here and here, but it was in general a much-anticipated break from...
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