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Adolescent Therapy

Therapy can play an essential part in the development of today’s teens and equip them with better coping skills and deeper understanding of themselves as they move into adulthood.

Adolescence is the period of life from 13 to 18 years of age. Today’s teenager faces a world in which the gaps in the structure of the family and society makes the need for adaption more and more difficult. During this time, a young person experiences transformations on several levels (physical, emotional, psychological). Sometimes these transformations occurring in, around, and after puberty can cause difficulties for adolescents often feeling insurmountable and deeply challenging.

This is fertile ground for the growth of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders and can sometimes lead to increases in aggression within the family, school and outside world. The task of adolescence is to move from dependence to independence and this is rarely accomplished without a struggle. Taking the time to speak with an experienced professional can make all the difference in finding new ways to communicate and understand your teenager. For the teenager to feel understood can be a liberating experience and enable them to move forwards in their life.

Counselling & Psychotherapy

Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy sessions are available for people who are in emotional and psychological distress. This distress can take many forms including depression, fear, anxiety or a loss of meaning in life.

Counselling tends to be relatively short-term and to focus on specific current personal difficulties, while Psychotherapy is a long process which helps people to understand the deeper roots of their present difficulties with a view to developing a greater understanding and being much better able to manage in life.

Couples Therapy

Many relationships can reach a stage where one or both partners are finding it difficult to see a way forward. The relationship may no longer seem to be providing what the person is looking for and they may now be wondering if it is possible to bring in changes that can help improve the situation or whether the couple can remain together.

Couple’s therapy is a collaborative approach to emotional and psychological problems that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture healthy change and
development. It sees a change in terms of the interaction between couples and family members and it emphasises healthy relations as an important factor in psychological well-being.

The skills of the couples therapist includes the ability to guide conversations in a way that catalyses the strengths and support of the wider system.

How Does Couple Therapy Work?

The counsellor will generally work with the couple together but may also do some separate individual sessions with one or both partners if this is identified and agreed upon as an important part of the process. In circumstances where one of the partners does not wish to enter into couple therapy, the other may be encouraged to proceed into individual therapy.

EMDR psychotherapy

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, commonly known as EMDR, is a type of psychotherapy used for mental health issues caused by traumatic events in the past. EMDR relieves distress associated with these traumatic memories and helps to process the negative images, beliefs, emotions and body sensations therein. Its aim is to help you heal from distressing life experiences (including trauma).

EMDR psychotherapy does not involve in depth detail regarding a distressing experience. Instead, it endeavours to change the emotions, behaviours or thoughts resulting from a distressing experience. This enables the mind to naturally heal. EMDR posits that the mind can recover from psychological trauma in the same way as the body physically heals itself. When trauma or distress occurs, trauma or distressing events serve to block or imbalance the brain’s information processing system. Once this block or imbalance is removed, healing naturally resumes.

This method entails the client making certain eye movements and following guided instructions while they access traumatic memories. This can help the person reprocess what they remember from the negative event. This reprocessing repairs the mental injury from that memory. EMDR can be helpful for: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, personality disorders.

Family Constellations

Many individuals experience emotional, psychological, behavioural and physical issues and challenges that impact their relationships. These are often influenced by family dynamics both in the present and across generations – existing before our time. Unresolved traumatic events and critical life events from the past can impact family members over generations. These lingering patterns in our family system are often unconscious. They may not have begun with us but we have the option to end them with us.

Family Constellations is a type of ancestral healing which can reveal hidden dynamics within families and relationships. By addressing and releasing the original disturbance or issue, healing can occur. Family constellations offers us insights into the hidden dynamic of our family system and provides healing for personal and family difficulties in a creative manner.

This is explored in a safe and confidential group process, through which we can recognise why we are how we are. Group participants represent family systems and issues throughout the course of the transformative process, facilitated by the family constellations therapist.

Family Constellations work can help to: give insights into what’s actually being played out in the family system, release toxic patterns, provide relief from intergenerational trauma, and bring harmony to your relationships.

Family Systemic Therapy

Family Therapy is a broad term for a range of methods for working collaboratively with families with various bio-psycho-social difficulties. Within this broad cathedral of therapy, one sees human problems as essentially interpersonal, not intrapersonal. Some family therapists argue that all human problems are essentially relational so family therapy is appropriate in all instances.

With respect to practices, some family therapists vary with whom they invite to the sessions. Some therapists invite all family members to all the therapy sessions. Others conduct family therapy with individuals by empowering them to manage their relationships with family members or within an intimate relationship in more satisfactory ways. Still, others have broadened family therapy so that it includes members of the wider professional and social network around the family, which demonstrates a systemic approach.

The family is a system with boundaries and is organised into subsystems. The goal of a systemic approach is to identify the most efficient means to generate consistent, optimum results. Change can be seen in the systems of interaction between family members or between couples in a relationship. Family relations are seen as an extremely important factor in the psychological well-being of its members!

The skills of the family therapist include the ability to guide conversations in a way that catalyses the strengths and support of the wider system. Family therapists can help with issues like:

Communications difficulties
Family conflict and disharmony
Emotional problems manifesting in one family member
Stress and worry
School refusal
Eating Disorders
Grief
Relationship distress
Psychosexual problems
Anxiety disorders

Family therapy can help all kinds of families including the family you define. At Fairview Therapy Centre, we don’t focus on problems, we seek solutions to conflict. Families function

as a system. When one family member is in crisis, everyone is.

We can host a safe environment where families can discuss their difficulties and reach a consensus through respect, listening and growth.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic practice that uses hypnosis, along with the mind’s own natural abilities, to help in treating mental and physical health areas of concern – it can improve issues, alleviate emotional suffering and reach specific goals.

Hypnosis is a trance like, naturally occurring state of mind that can facilitate a secure, natural relaxed state. Hypnosis uses both the conscious and unconscious mind to bring about positive change. Within this state, the individual exhibits more acute concentration and is more responsive to a concept or image, albeit they are not under the “control” of another. They are less aware of their environment and more susceptible to suggestions, or ‘invitations’.

The hypnotherapist will help their client shift away from unhelpful beliefs and resource them to achieve desired behavioural change or pain relief. This method enables the client to gain increased control of their psychological and physical responses.

Hypnotherapy can be helpful for the following conditions: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and panic attacks, depression, eating disorders, insomnia, somatic symptoms (backache, headache, IBS), skin conditions, weight loss, smoking cessation and phobias.

As with psychotherapy, the length of treatment can vary and is very much dependent on the complexity of the issue(s).

Integrative Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy embraces an attitude towards the practice of psychotherapy that affirms the inherent value of each individual. It is a unifying psychotherapy that responds appropriately and effectively to the person at the affective, behavioural, cognitive, and physiological levels of functioning, and addresses as well the spiritual dimension of life.

Integrative Psychotherapy also refers to the bringing together of the affective, cognitive, behavioural, and physiological systems within a person, with an awareness of the social and transpersonal aspects of the systems surrounding the person. These concepts are utilized within a perspective of human development in which each phase of life presents heightened developmental tasks, need sensitivities, crises, and opportunities for new learning.

The aim of an integrative psychotherapy is to facilitate wholeness such that the quality of the person’s being and functioning in the intrapsychic, interpersonal and sociopolitical space is maximized with due regard for each individual’s own personal limits and external constraints.

Life Coaching

Life coaching helps an individual to find the path between where they currently are and where they wish to be. Using insightful and curious questioning, life coaches help the person to reach broad or specific set goals in areas, whether relating to business, career, relationships, or health and wellbeing. Life coaching can unearth previously unutilised resources and uses imagination, productivity and leadership at the heart of the process. Life coaches are unbiased, supportive and hold their clients accountable.

Within this process, coaches can enable clients to recognise their desired area of focus and any current barriers to goal-attainment. It can shed light on the client’s strengths and values, as well as equipping them with tools and strategies to help them make lasting change.

Low Cost Therapy

At Fairview Therapy Centre we believe that therapy should be an option for everyone regardless of their financial means. Therefore we have the facility to offer a low-cost service where clients can avail of a therapist who is either in training or who has just finished their training and is working towards their accreditation with the professional bodies IACP, IAHIP, ICP (or equivalent). The fee charged in this instance is €30.
So why not contact us to arrange an appointment for an initial, free consultation, where we can discuss what form of therapy is best for you?

Mediation

Mediation is a voluntary process in which two or more people involved in a dispute meet and with the help of a Mediator, work out their own solution to their dispute. Mediation differs from the Court process in that the power remains with the parties.

It is a confidential process that facilitates the parties to explore a range of solutions. Our mediation forum is without prejudice unless otherwise agreed by the parties. It is also cost-efficient especially when it comes to agreeing with terms for a Separation or Divorce.

Lawyers may remain involved, but we believe the mediated agreement is a more creative and less acrimonious resolution because it is their agreement and is more likely to stand the test of time. As mediators, we provide a structured process which is flexible.

Our skills as mediators will the parties to explore a range of solutions to reach a negotiated settlement of their dispute. In workplace conflict situations, mediation provides early intervention and a resolution option that is less stressful and less expensive than engaging in adversarial systems. Mediation provides a safe place for parties to a dispute to deal directly with each other where the resolution of the dispute remains in their control and where future working relationships can be maintained and protected.

Mediation is…

a form of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution).
a way of resolving disputes.
a process in which the Mediator assists the parties in negotiating a settlement.
a process of collaboration, not conflict.
a transformative, empowering process. safe, respectful and voluntary. constantly consultative – nothing happens without your input.
a process which invites an open mind.

Mediation has…

already resolved disputes exactly like yours.
a proven track record in achieving fantastic results in a wide range of situations.
a structure to identify issues and deal with differences.
a timetable agreed with the parties, designed to meet their needs.
the flexibility to find dynamic and creative solutions when needed.
the potential to resolve any dispute.

Mediation can…

be applied to virtually any situation where two or more parties have differences they cannot resolve themselves.
involve just two parties or several or many participants.
resolve simple, single-issue disputes or complex, multifaceted disputes.
be applied to commercial, legal, community, workplace and family disputes.
resolve even a difficult dispute in a short space of time.
involve the parties meeting directly but doesn’t have to.

Mediation is not…

a substitute for legal advice – that’s what lawyers are for.
a way of receiving counselling – that’s what counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are for.

A mediator is…

a highly trained, skilled professional subject to the rigorous MII Code of Ethics and Standards.
non-judgmental and non-directive – they will not give opinions on the parties’ actions or positions.
trained in a variety of conflict resolution techniques and therefore an expert in de-escalating conflicts into agreements.
a natural facilitator who helps the parties think ‘outside the box’
a gifted and trained communicator.

a guide who encourages the parties through the Mediation process.
an inspiration to the parties when obstacles arise.

How does Mediation work?

The structure of the mediation process will vary depending on the type of dispute. Generally, an agreement to Mediate will be signed at the outset and the mediator will then meet with the parties together and/or separately, over the course of one day or in sessions over a number of days or weeks. Solicitors or other advisors may attend mediation sessions if required. If an agreement is reached this will be recorded and signed at the mediation, and further steps which may be required to make the agreement legally enforceable may follow.

Mind Coaching

Mind coaching or mindset coaching provides a nurturing and nourishing environment in which individuals are facilitated to become a better version of themselves and realise their potential through accountability and training.

During mind coaching sessions, a client’s strengths and ambitions are explored, along with any potential obstacles. Mind coaches can help clients to identify goals, and to create an actionable plan to achieve them. The individual is helped to establish support systems in order to turn ambitions into reality. This process encourages the person to use their mind more effectively in overcoming obstacles and achieving goals, as well as reaching peak performance therein. The mind coach can provide new perspective, offering transformative insight and newfound clarity.

Mind coaching can provide a new understanding of how one’s brain operates optimally, alongside heightened calmness, increased self-confidence, improved connection with others, greater focus, accountability, problem-solving skills, goal attainment.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the practice of observing and experiencing in the present moment, without judgement. It roots us in the here and now, encouraging us to savour the present, and allowing any worrying thoughts or sensations about the past or future to fade away. Mindfulness teaches us to attend to our individual experiences (thoughts, feelings, physical sensations) as they arise and deem them as neither good nor bad but accept them as they are.

Being more aware of thoughts, emotions, sensations and the world around us is the first step towards becoming more mindful. Mindfulness can enable us to better enjoy the world around us and to develop increased acceptance.

Mindfulness helps individuals to manage physical and emotional distress. It can entail a short simple meditation, breathing exercises, body scanning, mindful eating or using mindful movement in the body, paying attention to how one’s body moves without judgement. Those who practice mindfulness usually have improved health outcomes and better quality of life.

Nutrition & lifestyle coaching

Nutrition and lifestyle coaches help individuals and groups adopt better eating and lifestyle choices to improve health and wellbeing. This type of coaching aims to provide strategies for personal change and to work towards sustainable healthy habits.

A nutrition and lifestyle coach will work with the client to develop healthy eating programmes to ensure optimal health as well as minimising the impact of negative influences (genetic / environmental e.g. pollution, lifestyle, stress). The coach will consider the client’s food and exercise preferences, cooking ability and available time in developing this healthy eating programme. The coach educates and motivates clients towards personal change that will improve their quality of life going forward. The results can be life-changing

Online Therapy

Fairview Therapy Centre now offers confidential counselling and psychotherapy services online. An increasing number of clients are using online psychotherapy as a replacement for attending face to face therapy in our consulting rooms, particularly since the arrival of covid-19. For clients who have irregular work schedules, or live remotely or experience difficulties in terms of time for travel to sessions, telephone or video therapy is an ideal alternative.

The flexibility provided by online therapy means that you can log into your session from a space where you feel safe and comfortable. Our psychotherapists have years of experience and high level training in the provision of psychotherapy. They work to the same standards of confidentiality as they do in face to face therapy and provide a safe space for you to be able to explore issues which may have prompted you to reach out to our service.

If you are interested in availing of therapy remotely through this medium please contact us by phone, email or by completing the contact form below, and we can arrange a telephone or Skype/Zoom consultation.

Positive Psychology Teacher

Positive psychology helps to develop happiness and emotional wellness and entails using character strengths and behaviours to enable individuals to find meaning and purpose. Positive psychology goes beyond fleeting happiness and emphasizes meaning, wellbeing and true satisfaction. It encourages the transition from surviving to thriving. Positive psychology differs from other areas of psychology due to its main focus on identifying and building mental assets, as opposed to concentrating on weaknesses or issues.

Exploring the individual’s character strengths (e.g. courage, justice, humanity) is a key part of positive psychology alongside increasing their awareness and their connection to others. Positive psychology helps people decipher what does and does not make them happy, and by doing this, they can arrive at the three pillars of positive psychology: connecting with others, savouring pleasure, and developing gratitude.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is a process which takes place in a relationship between psychotherapist and client who work together to explore the client’s distress and difficulties. The psychoanalytic approach is based on the understanding that memories and feelings that were too painful or disturbing for the person to bear were repressed in the unconscious where they continued to exert a powerful, but hidden, influence on the individual’s life. We may become aware of this phenomenon in our lives when, to our dismay, we discover that we have been repeating over and over again, patterns of relationships or life choices that we belatedly recognize were destined to bring us pain from the outset.

The psychoanalytic process opens up an ongoing revelation of our hidden selves. In practice, it takes the form of the client talking, encouraged by the psychotherapist to say whatever comes to mind. The therapist listens with great care to what is being said. As the therapy proceeds, this experience of freedom to speak leads to increased spontaneity and ease in the client who becomes more able to acknowledge and express feelings and thoughts that had been deeply buried and link these to current experiences. The overall benefits being that you gain greater insight into yourself, inner fulfilment, raised self-esteem, a positive outlook on life and improved relationships.

psychologist

A psychologist is a person who studies behaviour and the mind. Psychologists are trained mental health professionals who use talk therapy and psychological evaluations to help individuals foster healthy ways to handle mental health difficulties. They help people living with depression or anxiety, those who are grieving, and anyone who is finding life difficult. Psychologists help these individuals learn to cope more effectively with life and relationship issues and mental health conditions.

Psychologists use psychological evaluations and testing alongside talk therapy (psychotherapy) to treat mental health issues. They diagnose disorders, identify behavioural and emotional patterns and devise treatment plans. This can all serve to help clients cope more effectively with ongoing issues in their life.

Reality Therapy/ Choice Theory

Reality therapy/ Choice Theory, RTCT, is a form of counselling that views behaviours as choices. Reality therapy and Choice Theory emphasize the present. The goal is to change current behaviour to address a psychological problem.

The theory also states that we choose our behaviours to satisfy unmet needs. And to meet these needs, our behaviour must be determined by internal forces. If our behaviour is influenced by external factors like people or situations, it will result in psychological problems.

The therapist’s role in reality therapy is to help clients focus on what they can do, and steer them focused on the present or their symptoms instead of the cause (William Glasser Institute, 2010). A client in reality therapy will likely be encouraged to do the following:

Focus on the present, not the past
Avoid discussing symptoms
Focus their energy on changing their thoughts and behaviour
Avoid criticizing, blaming, and/or comparing themselves to others
Avoid relying on excuses for their behaviour, whether they are legitimate or not
Make specific plans and smart goals.

Supervision

Clinical Supervision is a formal and confidential arrangement for counsellors and psychotherapists to regularly discuss aspects of their work with their Supervisor.

The purpose of supervision in clinical psychotherapy and counselling is to enrich the professional’s attitudes, knowledge, and skills in order to competently provide quality care resulting in improved client outcomes.

Supervisors are highly experienced and specifically trained in the area of supervision. They provide perspective and support to therapists where they work collaboratively to ensure and grow the efficacy of the therapeutic alliance (the relationship between therapist and client).

Clinical Supervision is part of ongoing training, support and mentoring of professionally trained psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists. It also ensures that the high standards of therapy are maintained thus fostering growth, learning and accountability in the practitioner.

Cross professional supervision caters for professionals working in mental health settings, social work and care, education, care facilities and chaplaincy as well as agencies and organisations where individuals and teams deal with issues of mental ill-health and / or psychological disorders. It provides a supportive and collaborative learning space for the practitioner to reflect on their work helping to further enhance their professional development.

reiki

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing technique which relaxes, reduces stress, and promotes healing. Reiki involves a Reiki master (someone who has undergone formal training in the practice of Reiki) uses gentle hand movements in order to guide the flow of healthy energy through the client’s body. The premise is that an invisible ‘life force energy’ flows through the individual, keeping us alive. If this ‘life force energy’ is low, then the individual is more prone to sickness or stress; if it is high, we are more likely to be healthy and happy.

A reiki session involves the reiki master gently moving their hands above the body, sometimes touching the body. Each hand position concentrates on a certain part of the body and is held for several minutes, depending on the individual and their needs. A reiki session has a typical duration of 60 – 90 minutes. During the treatment, clients usually experience a wonderful glow or radiance flowing through and around them.

There is evidence that reiki can improve chronic pain and illness, and reduce stress. Reiki can be physically and emotionally beneficial – promoting pain relief, symptom management, relaxation, improved mood, and better sleep. Reiki is a natural, safe method of spiritual healing.