Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

If you joined those who decided to do “dry January”, you are by now in the very early stages of your 31-day journey. Whether the journey is looking to(...)

How many versions of you are there, inside your head? It’s a safe bet that, psychologically, there are more than one and Christmas, with its demands a(...)

One of the earliest counselling training videos I ever saw was known to students as “the bickering couple”. In the video, the couple bickered constan(...)

Imagine you are alone in a room in an empty house late at night. You are reading a book. The room is dark apart from the light from a reading lamp. S(...)

Long is the journey that is made in the company of a fool, says one of the Buddhist books. It strikes me that a journey in the company of a wise man o(...)

I was reminded of the wisdom of the centuries on the 123 bus in Dublin the other day when listening to two young men having an argument. It appeared (...)

“ . . . Relentless, exhausting and often unpleasant or demeaning, with little or no support, reward or recognition.” That’s a description of the work(...)

It’s the time of year when we play a losing battle against the imminent arrival of Christmas – but if you’re a separated parent, you have to think abo(...)

A recent headline in The Irish Times which read ‘Do I have to tell a guy I’m a virgin?’ made me think, for some reason, of men who used to kneel in th(...)

It has been 44 years since Nuala Fennell, a leader of the women’s movement, wrote a letter to The Irish Times, drawing attention to the problem of do(...)