Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Somebody laughed at me once because when he praised a piece of work I had done, I deflected the compliment by muttering that, “yeah, I really got luck(...)

If you gave up alcohol for January you might by now be at the stage where the mention of “wine o’clock” or the arrival of Friday evening brings a twin(...)

Are you a good listener? Perhaps you’re the person in your group of friends that others turn to when they have a problem or need to vent? If so, then (...)

It’s the conversation a lot of people don’t want to have: the one about what needs to change in a long-term relationship. And it’s very easy for the c(...)

During the past seven years we have come through a recession, yet levels of anxiety and depression among adolescents are higher than they were then. (...)

A recent trip by bus and tram on a cold, grey, dull dog of a day with a dead mobile phone, nothing to read and nothing to write on convinced me that b(...)

Well, little boy/girl what do you not want for Christmas? There’s a question that wouldn’t be a winner in Santa’s grotto. It’s a question worth askin(...)

Towards the end of the Celtic Tiger, I came to realise that in workplaces, from health settings to financial services, you could find people using coc(...)

Christmas is approaching fast and with it the need, if you’re a non-resident parent, to make plans for your involvement with the children at that time(...)

“All this stuff about stress,” he said, “is a waste of time. It comes with the territory, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” We were chatting (...)