Counsellor/Psychotherapist

22/02/2023

22/01/2023

Geoffrey McCarthy looks at the Andrew Tate case and the troubling message it brings.

02/02/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/02/abuse-prevention-how-to-turn-off-the-gaslighters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

It’s a coercive and insidious form of psychological torture, but gaslighting can be recognised and stopped

07/02/2019

https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2019/0207/1028069-calum-best-on-mindfulness-and-moving-on/

Once famed for his party-boy antics, Calum Best has been on a long journey of self-improvement. He tells Gabrielle Fagan why he's never felt better.

04/02/2019

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-great-psychoanalysts-john-bowlby/?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

Among our deepest and seemingly most natural aspirations is the longing to form stable, satisfying relationships: to thrive in partnerships that are good for both people. It doesn’t seem much to ask. A lot of people are looking for roughly the same thing. But the painful fact is that very large nu...

31/01/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/10/by-mollycoddling-our-children-were-fuelling-mental-illness-in-teenagers

Exposure to normal stresses is vital for children’s future wellbeing, say academics Jonathan Haidt and Pamela Paresky

30/01/2019

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/26/smell-booze-fabric-childhood-hidden-victims-alcoholism?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

What’s it like to grow up the child of an alcoholic? One writer looks back at her teenage years, and talks to others about fear, shame and survival