Perhaps you have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder or maybe you know someone living with Bipolar Disorder. If so, you know that managing the symptoms is vitally important to help you (or them) live a well-balanced and productive life...
Read moreIt’s finally beginning to feel like Autumn in Ireland with the temperature finally cooling and the winter coats starting to make an appearance. But while many people relish the beautiful colours of the changing leaves and look forward to...
Read moreWhen in therapy both the therapist and the person seeking help welcome anything that can boost therapy effectiveness. These days therapists and their clients are much more open to incorporating less traditional practices into the mix. Often this...
Read moreIt is safe to say that the levels of depression and anxiety in our society have certainly risen to unsustainable proportions over the pandemic. Often people’s anxiety and depression can be justified – related to real circumstances...
Read moreWow, it is December already, despite it sometimes feeling like the longest year ever! As Covid restrictions are being eased in Ireland we can now finally begin to plan our Christmas season, and consider who we will be spending those special days...
Read moreAre you starting to experience the winter blues? This winter may feel even more dark and depressing for many of us as we face it under the now constant stress of coronavirus measures as well. All the things that make the winter bearable will not...
Read moreBeing let go sound so much better than being fired, doesn’t it? Fired sounds like it is somehow all our fault, that we did something terrible and deserve to be dismissed. When the reality is that sometimes these things are not in...
Read moreAlthough the pandemic is over, the upheavals and disasters in the world fill our news and social feeds, and many of us find ourselves still in a see-saw of emotions. One week we are coping, doing better than that even – back to achieving...
Read moreWe have generally tried to keep our blog posts general enough to apply to a wide range of our readers, but sometimes we hone in on a specific group of people to address. In today’s blog post we are looking at the stress experienced by those...
Read moreLast week we looked at the phenomenon of the Imposter Syndrome that affects so many of us. The Centre’s London-based therapist, Teyhou Smyth, had some good advice in her article and she follows it on today by examining the concept of...
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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