Owen Connolly, founder and counselling psychologist at the Connolly Counselling Centre, was interviewed this week by Johnny Brew for Irish newspaper The Independent. Johnny caught up with Owen in his beautiful garden in County Dublin and asked...
Read moreWhile we have been talking about relationships and intimacy in many of our blog posts, the reality is that many of us have felt lonely in our lives, if not right at this moment. But loneliness is not the opposite of being with people or in...
Read moreToday we are concluding our mini series on Attachment with a look at how to manage difficulty with adult attachment. As our London-based therapist Teyhou Smyth explains in the article, these adult issues have their roots in our childhood...
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 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 moreIn the last two blog posts we have been looking at the behaviour of children and how parents can best discipline their children. Owen Connolly‘s advice, from his book for fathers entitled “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”...
Read moreContinuing on with our mini-series focused on the intimacy needs of childhood, today’s #Thursday Thoughts blog post discusses the third main intimacy need. Reviewing these needs and doing our best to meet them, can help us as parents to ensure...
Read moreCentre founder, Owen Connolly, was interviewed by the Irish Mail on his views regarding the trauma effects on children of birth interventions like caesarian sections. Read The Irish Mail article here.
Read moreOwen Connolly was live on Today FM on Monday morning, 2nd March 2015 at 10:30am. In the interview with Anton Savage, Owen discussed the need for children to know that they are loved by their parents and how it influences what they do and affects...
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