Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

He had been on a summer holiday but had lost much of his hoped-for relaxation to thoughts about past disappointments and future anxieties. Drinking ch(...)

We have a tendency to misunderstand stress, even though it is one of the defining characteristics of our age. Research by Prof Mark Williams at Oxford(...)

If you live in a city it’s not rare to see couples fighting on the street, unless you happen to dwell in the sort of area where rows go on behind dis(...)

A recent Irishman’s diary by Derek Scally about a novel called The Valley Of the Squinting Windows reminded me that living in a surveillance culture i(...)

While I was wandering through the Central Library in Vancouver a few months ago, my attention was captured by an information board which said the dema(...)

The two boys, aged maybe 10 or 11, pushed through the rest of us to get on to the bus. When they tried to rush past the driver, he told them to get ti(...)

He had the capacity to get angry about anything at all and to bring it to such depths that people generally made themselves scarce. Having too much t(...)

Sometimes, when my brain has nothing better to do, I wonder who or what I would be if I retired. Would I be among the happy ones who go around annoyin(...)

A conversation with a passenger on a flight to Rome underlined for me the degree of unhappiness we bring into our lives by clinging to ideas that no l(...)

I recently heard a young person (ie, somebody under the age of 30), express bafflement at the idea that anybody would consider getting married without(...)