Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

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(...)

If you’re lonely you might not think it consoling to learn that we experience different kinds of loneliness. Yet, the information can help us to figu(...)

I continue to be baffled by the behaviour of men who seem to lack all sense of embarrassment when it comes to harassing younger women. When I wrote a(...)

“Ye’d be better practising kicking the effing ball if it’s goals ye want.” So said the coach of a football team of my acquaintance before the word “c(...)

Longer days bring cheer but not to everybody. For some, the brighter days lead to an increase in depression and this seems to be especially so in the (...)

Summer exams are like elephants. In the autumn, they are dots on a distant horizon. By spring, those dots are starting to look like actual elephants, (...)

The shameful phenomenon of male violence towards women is never far from the headlines, usually in relation to the latest tragic case. The year is st(...)