Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Waiting to cross the street recently, I overheard a young man telling somebody else on the phone that he or she was “a thick”. He said it several time(...)

It is Health Season in The Irish Times. In print and online, we will be offering encouragement and inspiration to help us all improve our ph(...)

“Anticipatory vigilance” is a phrase used to describe the experience of suffering from heightened, everyday anxiety in which we get into the habi(...)

I once observed the aftermath of a fairly minor collision between a car and a van. The van driver was berating the car driver who stood with his head (...)

If you are a father who is not living with his child, and if the relationship with the mother is not an easy one, it’s time to start talking about Chr(...)

Shame, so far as we know, is felt “in people” in all cultures and countries. I wrote “in people” because it appears to be felt physically. If a thre(...)

“Surge in resignations as employees defy bosses on return to office” is a fairly startling headline. It appeared in The Irish Times earlier this month(...)

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me,” must rank among the most untrue proverbs of all time. As too many people know, na(...)

Not long ago, lying in bed in a hotel on the edge of the university district in Cork, I listened to sounds of revelry, from the nearby streets. The st(...)

When we were children and my father brought us to visit cousins near Prosperous in Co Kildare, we would sometimes walk to the grave of Teresa Brayton (...)