Straight answers about counselling.

7 August 2026

How to Talk to Your Teenager About Therapy

Worried your teen will say no to counselling? How to raise the idea so they actually hear you, common reactions, and what to do if they refuse.

7 August 2026

Signs Your Teenager Is Struggling (and When to Step In)

Normal teenage moodiness or something more? The signs that a teen is genuinely struggling, what's usually behind them, and how to help without pushing them away.

6 August 2026

Common Relationship Problems, and When to Get Help

Every couple hits rough patches. Here are the problems that bring couples to counselling, and the honest signs it's time to get some outside help.

6 August 2026

How to Handle Conflict in Your Relationship

Conflict isn't the problem, how you handle it is. Practical, evidence-based ways to argue better and repair afterwards, from a counsellor's chair.

6 August 2026

What to Expect from Couples Counselling

Nervous about your first couples session? Here's honestly what happens, from the first appointment to how the work unfolds, so you can walk in knowing what's coming.

3 August 2026

Why Am I So Angry All the Time?

Snapping over small things? Frequent anger is often a signal, not a flaw. What it can be telling you, and the steps that tend to help.

27 July 2026

How Do You Cope With Leaving Cert Results Stress?

Results day is coming and the waiting can feel unbearable. Calm, practical ways to handle Leaving Cert stress, before the envelope and after.

21 July 2026

Feeling Low in Summer? Why Depression Doesn't Take a Holiday

Summer-pattern SAD is real. Why low mood can hit in warm weather, the signs to recognise, and what actually helps.

21 July 2026

Why Do I Feel Anxious for No Reason?

Feeling anxious with no obvious cause is more common than you think, and there's usually a reason underneath. Here's what high-functioning anxiety looks like and what helps.

9 July 2026

CBT or Talking Therapy? How to Choose (and Why You Might Not Have To)

CBT is structured and practical. Talking therapies go deeper into patterns and history. Here's what each actually involves, and why the best therapists refuse to pick a side.

9 July 2026

Does Online Counselling Actually Work?

Yes. For most people and most common difficulties, research consistently finds online therapy matches in-person outcomes. Here's the honest picture, including when it isn't the right choice.

9 July 2026

How Much Does Counselling Cost in Ireland?

Private counselling in Ireland typically costs between €50 and €120 a session. Here's what drives the price, what a full course actually costs, and the free and low-cost options worth knowing about.

22 October 2024

I Just Want To Be Happy — Navigating the Journey to Authentic Joy

Happiness. It's something we all crave, yet for many, it feels elusive—like a fleeting feeling we're constantly chasing. How often have you thought to...

28 September 2024

The Importance of Sleep for Mental Health

Sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining good mental health. It's during sleep that our brains process emotions, consolidate memories, and prepare for...

Anxious About Being Anxious: The Circle of Anxiety

Fearing your own anxious feelings can make them worse. Learn about the 'circle of anxiety', why adrenaline is harmless, and how your interpretation changes everything.

Are You Depressed or Sad? How to Tell the Difference

Sadness is temporary and fades. Depression is a longer-term condition that affects every part of life. Learn the difference, the symptoms, and when to get help.

Are You Problem-Solving, or Just Worrying?

Worrying feels productive but gets you nowhere. Learn the difference between worry and problem-solving, a simple 5-step method, and how to tell which you're doing.

Depression and Anxiety: The Feelings Underneath

Depression and anxiety are mood states, not feelings. They can act as defences that bury deeper emotions like anger. Learn how therapy helps you reconnect with them.

Embrace Anxiety: 5 Reasons It Isn't Always Negative

Anxiety isn't always the enemy. In small doses it sharpens focus, fuels creativity, builds stamina and connects us. Five reasons anxiety can work in your favour.

Emotion Regulation With the Diver's Reflex

When your brain hits crisis mode, the diver's reflex can help. Learn how cold water on the face calms an overactive nervous system, and how to try it safely.

Finding the Right Counsellor for You: A Limerick Guide

How to choose the right counsellor in Limerick: what to look for, the main types of counselling, the perks of online sessions, and what to expect in your first session.

How to Deal With Exam Stress

Exam stress can feel overwhelming. Practical ways to cope: keep a routine, take breaks, manage expectations, look after yourself, and know when to ask for help.

I Feel Like I'm Losing My Mind: What It Means and How to Cope

Feeling like you're losing your mind? It's usually stress, anxiety, panic or dissociation, not insanity. Learn what it means, why it happens, and how to cope.

Mental Fatigue: Signs, Causes and What You Can Do About It

Always feeling mentally overwhelmed? That could be mental fatigue. Learn the signs, what causes it, and practical strategies to recover and protect your energy.

Signs of Depression in Men and Why It's Often Missed

Depression in men doesn't always look like sadness. Learn the signs, from anger and risk-taking to physical aches, why it's so often missed, and how it's treated.

Six Common Misconceptions of Therapy

Think therapy is about blaming your parents, being self-indulgent, or only for mental illness? Here are six common myths about therapy, and the reality behind them.

The Healing Power of Laughter: How Humour Helps Anxiety and Depression

Can laughter really ease anxiety and depression? Here's how humour supports your mental health, and simple ways to bring more of it into everyday life.

We've Got Depression Wrong: It's Trying to Save Us

New theories, drawing on Polyvagal Theory, suggest depression isn't a defect but a biological survival strategy: an immobilisation response the body uses to protect us.

What Causes Depression? Triggers, Risk Factors and Why

What causes depression? A clear look at the triggers, thinking styles, stress, loneliness and risk factors behind it, and how counselling helps you recover.

17 April 2024

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Is Much More Than Just Positive Thinking

As a professional counsellor, I can attest to the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) method in alleviating depressive and anxious...

What Is Depression? Signs, Causes, Types and Treatment

What is depression, really? A clear guide to the signs, causes, types and treatments of depression, and how counselling can help you find a way through.

Why Am I Unhappy When My Life Looks Good on Paper?

House, job, partner, holidays, and still unhappy? You may be living the life you think you should. Here's why that happens and how to reconnect with your values.

Why Acceptance Is So Important for Our Mental Health

Acceptance isn't giving up. Learn why accepting painful thoughts, feelings and loss is often the first step towards change, self-compassion and real healing.

17 October 2023

How Sleep Affects Mental Health

When you sleep, it's not just your body that's recharging, your brain is, too. In fact, while you're fast asleep, your brain is quite busy. It's...

18 September 2023

9 Ways To Manage Stress

Stress is a common problem that can affect anyone. Learning to manage stress is crucial for your overall well-being. The following techniques can help...

13 August 2023

Anxiety Therapy

Medication can sometimes be used to treat anxiety problems. However, for many clients, therapy, either by itself or in conjunction with medication, is...

13 August 2023

Effective Strategies for Coping with Anxiety in Today's World

In today's fast-paced world, it's no surprise that many of us experience anxiety from time to time.

15 July 2023

10 Ways To Manage Stress

Take a break and change location. Moving away from the unpleasant environment and getting up might be really beneficial. A little change of location...

15 July 2023

Effects of PTSD

PTSD can also have a negative impact on physical health. People with PTSD often experience insomnia, which can lead to fatigue and decreased ability to...

13 July 2023

Do I Need Counselling?

The ability to manage challenging emotions, identify harmful behaviour patterns, or work through negative events in a way that gives you the knowledge...

20 June 2023

Anger Management Counselling

When anger is out of control or lasts for a long time, it can hurt both mentally and physically. Most people can handle their anger well in some...

1 May 2023

Anger Management

Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences at some point in their lives. It usually arises in response to some form of stimulus, whether it...

9 February 2023

The Benefits of CBT Therapy

Discover the positive impact CBT therapy can have on your mental health with this comprehensive guide! Find out how CBT therapy works and why it's so...

24 October 2022

Causes of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Most people have heard of post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. But what is it, really? And what are its symptoms?

9 August 2022

Counselling For Anxiety

Anxiety is a typical emotional response to risk and is defined as an unpleasant feeling of fear or impending calamity.

16 July 2022

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder in which individuals have unwanted and recurring thoughts, feelings, pictures, or sensations...

25 April 2022

Understanding Complex PTSD

The term "trauma" is often used to describe a single incident or even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, this is not the complete picture...

11 April 2022

What Is Anger?

Like joy, sorrow, concern, or disgust, anger is a basic human emotion. These emotions have evolved throughout human history to ensure survival.

8 February 2022

'Innocent' Remarks That Affect People With Anxiety

If you suffer from anxiety, you're probably aware of some of the seemingly "harmless" but highly damaging things people say to individuals who suffer...

10 Facts About Stress

Every year, millions of people visit their doctors for mental health difficulties, with stress being a primary cause. Money, work, and relationships...

4 Ways to Be More Authentic

Most people want to be real as people. We want to feel like we belong where we are. We're happy with who we are. Taking both our skills and weaknesses...

7 Questions To Help You Find Your Life Purpose

Most of the time, we don't know what we want to do with our lives. Even when we are done with school. Even after we get a job. Even when we have money....

A Mental Health Workout That's As Simple As ABC

Studies have shown that people instinctively know what makes them feel better, but they don't think about it every day. People rarely think about what...

Anger Management: Tips and Tools

In its simplest terms, anger is our natural response when the pursuit of our goals gets blocked. It arises from what we perceive to be unfair treatment...

Anger: What It's Trying To Tell You

Anger can emerge in a variety of situations, and the emotion can range from minor irritation (commonly referred to as "frustration") to all-consuming...

Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)

This sort of ANT, which can also be known as polarised thinking, splitting, or black or white thinking, indicates a tendency to think in extremes —...

Building Mental Resilience

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines resilience as "the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or...

How Can I Recover From Trauma?

Because the human psyche has a tremendous capacity for recovery and even growth, not everyone who experiences a traumatic event is permanently scarred....

How to speak with a loved one about their anxiety

Talking about anxiety with your loved ones can be one of the best things you can do for yourself and them. It can help you to reduce the stigma around...

How To Manage Your Anger The Healthy Way

Managing your anger is important if you don't want to say or do things you'll regret later. It would help if you were self-aware to know what makes you...

How to Train Yourself to Stop Unhelpful Thinking

For example, it's not always clear right away why someone takes longer than usual to answer your email or text or why they said something.

Is Anxiety Stopping You from Sleeping? Try These Tips

If you lie in bed feeling worried, you might find it hard to fall asleep or stay asleep. If you're tossing and turning in bed every night, you're not...

Panic Attacks

Many have tried to put words to the experience of a panic attack — a sensation so overwhelming, many people mistake it for a heart attack, stroke, or...

How You Might See the World (Schemas That Change How You See the World)

A person may not even be aware that they have schemas; in fact, the ideology may appear to be quite normal. When people are aware of their schemas,...

Stress Management

We all are subjected to stress in our daily lives. Because stress causes or influences the great majority of health problems, it's critical to...

Unlock the Benefits of Therapy

Mental health is an important part of our overall health, but it's often overlooked or ignored. People with mental health problems may feel ashamed to...

What Does Anxiety Feel Like?

Experiencing anxiety can sometimes be overwhelming and can cause physical symptoms.

How Counselling Works (What You Can Expect in Counselling)

The typical process will look something like the following, but this is a general guide only. Please bear in mind that the number of sessions can vary...

Why do I always think \"I'm not good enough\"?

It's common for people to have moments of self-doubt and feel like they're not good enough.

Worry

Part of being alive is having problems or challenges to overcome. Sometimes though, when we think we're trying to focus on solving these problems,...

28 December 2021

Surviving a Panic Attack

Panic episodes are hyperventilation on a physiological level. You're inhaling much too much oxygen and exhaling far too little carbon dioxide, but your...

23 September 2021

Best Counselling Service

In today's fast-paced world, mental health has become a crucial aspect of our overall well-being. With the advent of technology, counselling services...

7 September 2021

What Is PTSD?

PTSD can be difficult to explain to someone who has never experienced it.

3 June 2021

How Anxiety Attacks Trick You

Anxiety attacks (or panic attacks) trick you into trying to help yourself with methods that make the problem worse.

18 May 2021

What's Your Trigger?

3 steps to identifying your triggers and halting your negative emotional spiral.

18 February 2021

Counselling In Limerick

From our Limerick counselling clinic, Mind Healing Counselling's team of Limerick therapists offer a range of services designed to address a range of...

Wellbeing, Resilience & Reflection

by Miffy Hoad, Development Officer, Mental Health Ireland