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Mental Health & Mindfulness

Therapy for teenagers

Leo Muckley July, 2025

In March this year I completed Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) accredited training which qualifies me to work with adolescents aged 13- to 17-years-old. It truly has been a privilege to step into adolescent client’s lives since I started working with teens and it is certainly different than […]

Mindfulness with Susan O'Regan

What we feed grows

Susan O Regan July, 2025

Mindfulness helps us become aware of our habits and where our minds are inclined to habitually visit. We might be inclined to focus very much on the past or maybe we are more future-focused, but rarely are we simply here, now, living in this moment. Mindfulness skills help build our […]

Accompanying one’s ‘self’

Leo Muckley June, 2025

Therapy can be an invitation to be in relationship with one’s ‘self’, with others and with the world from a place of compassion. One of the most powerful ways this shift can occur is through the cultivation of self-compassion. Not a self-indulgence, as some might mis-label it, but a courageous, […]

Mindfulness with Susan O'Regan

Live and let love

Susan O Regan June, 2025

I dug deep recently and found the courage, motivation and energy inside of me to move to beautiful Beara. Having followed an intuitive thread, invisible yet insistent, the change of scene has done me the power of good, and even my little dog Pudsy, despite her disability, seems to have been […]

Right place right time

Susan O Regan May, 2025

As children and young people, some of us are very attuned to our surroundings, to gut feelings and hunches, dreams, and so on. But over time, life takes over and this intuitive aspect to us can be dampened down, either by ourselves or others, and is often not encouraged in […]

Mental Health & Mindfulness

Helpful therapy

Leo Muckley April, 2025

In previous months I have written about many challenges a person might face and how those challenges can impact a person’s life. I have always written how therapy could be helpful and why a person might seek out therapy for support. I thought this month it would be helpful, (pun […]

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