A space where there is the potential for growth and discovery. I work with adults facing all kinds of emotional distress.
As well as working in private practice, I am a member of the Law Society Psychological Team providing counselling to trainee solicitors.
I have a particular interest in working with perinatal mental health, postnatal depression, trauma and anxiety, and with parents of twins and other multiples.
A space where there is the potential for growth and discovery.I work with adults facing all kinds of emotional distress.
As well as working in private practice, I am a member of theLaw Society Psychological Team providing counselling to trainee solicitors.
I have a particular interest in working with perinatal mental health, postnatal depression, trauma and anxiety, and with parents of twins and other multiples.
You may be feeling overwhelmed, low or anxious. You may have experienced a major life change, such as becoming a parent or you may be feeling stuck in your day to day life.
You may be feeling overwhelmed, low or anxious.You may have experienced a major life change, such as becoming a parent or you may be feeling stuck in your day to day life.
Have a look at some of the descriptions below and see if they match, we can arrange a call to see if I would be a right fit for you.
Sometimes we can find ourselves feeling low, anxious, frustrated or sad and we’re not really sure why. On the surface things may be ok, but life isn’t going the way we wanted or expected it to.
Sometimes we can find ourselves having he same old arguments, facing the same problems with dealing with people and it can feel like a merry-go-round.Counselling can help us understand what these feelings and patterns mean, what they are telling us and what we can do to help them shift
Sometimes we can find ourselves feeling low, anxious, frustrated or sad and we’re not really sure why. On the surface things may be ok, but life isn’t going the way we wanted or expected it to.
Sometimes we can find ourselves having he same old arguments, facing the same problems with dealing with people and it can feel like a merry-go-round.Counselling can help us understand what these feelings and patterns mean, what they are telling us and what we can do to help them shift
Sometimes what happened to us when we were children still impacts us today. Childhood is where we learn how to be in relationship with people, and it’s when we develop ways of being in the world, dealing with problems and events that are stressful.
Counselling can help you examine these patterns, your way of being in the world and see do they still fit for you as an adult.
Sometimes what happened to us when we were children still impacts us today. Childhood is where we learn how to be in relationship with people, and it’s when we develop ways of being in the world, dealing with problems and events that are stressful.
Counselling can help you examine these patterns, your way of being in the world and see do they still fit for you as an adult.
Sometimes things that happen to us can be traumatic and the aftermath of trauma stays with us. Trauma can be caused by many factors; loss, violence, abuse, neglect, danger.
The effect of trauma can stay with us for years, and can have a big impact on how we live our lives.Psychotherapy and counselling can help you work through your trauma and free you from its impact in your everyday life.
Sometimes things that happen to us can be traumatic and the aftermath of trauma stays with us. Trauma can be caused by many factors; loss, violence, abuse, neglect, danger.
The effect of trauma can stay with us for years, and can have a big impact on how we live our lives.Psychotherapy and counselling can help you work through your trauma and free you from its impact in your everyday life.
The arrival of a child into a family has a profound impact on all members of the family. The arrival of a baby can lead to Post Natal Depression and often feelings of anxiety.
Also traumatic birth experiences can leave both parents with feelings that are difficult to manage. Often there is a stigma about expressing these very normal and understandable feelings.
Being a parent to multiples is a highly visible and yet often misunderstood highly challenge.
The arrival of a child into a family has a profound impact on all members of the family. The arrival of a baby can lead to Post Natal Depression and often feelings of anxiety.
Also traumatic birth experiences can leave both parents with feelings that are difficult to manage. Often there is a stigma about expressing these very normal and understandable feelings.
Being a parent to multiples is a highly visible and yet often misunderstood highly challenge.
Along with providing counselling services in the Law Society I have also worked in providing workshops on aspects of mental health and well-being. I have also created CPD courses on parenting in a pandemic, the wim hoff method, and on how aspects of existential philosophy can help us cope.
Written works include a mental health toolbox and an article parenting in a pandemic.
https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/in-depth/working-from-home/
As a therapist, I believe that the foundation of our work together is in the therapeutic relationship we co-create.
Typically, we will meet weekly at the same time in my rooms in Dun Laoghaire. It is my role to create a safe, non-judgemental, confidential space where growth and discovery can take place. In this space, you can explore and create a new relationship with yourself, your history with others in your life.
Psychotherapy offers you a space to explore your feelings. It is a space for you to explore issues in depth.
A psychotherapist is trained to help you explore difficult issues in depth. It is an opportunity to get to know yourself on a deeper level.
Psychotherapy can be helping in managing anxiety, depression, trauma
In the first session, we will do an assessment. I will ask a lot of questions about you, your background and what is bringing you to therapy, and why you are coming now.
In this first session, I will be assessing whether I have the right skill set to work with you, and more importantly it is an opportunity for you to decide if you are happy to work with me. All the research indicates that it is the quality of the relationship that influences how effective the therapy will be. so it’s really important that you feel I am a good match. You don’t have to spare my, or any other therapists feelings on this.
Depending on how we agree to work together, we may decide to contract for a number of sessions to work on a particular issue, or we may decide to work in a more open ended way. Sometimes sessions can be challenging and other times they may feel really useful.In a session, my role is to help you explore and understand what you are feeling and what is going on for you. I won’t tell you what to do, but I will help you explore and find your own answers.
I provide a warm empathic non- judgemental approach.I work phenomenologically, in that I meet the client where and who they are and I don’t try to box them into any categories. I integrate elements of humanistic and psychodynamic approaches.
I use the body’s knowledge to further our understanding of what is going on psychologically. I do not seek to change or cure, rather accept what is. I believe in the paradoxical theory of change in that when we accept what is, change occurs anyway.
What the client brings to therapy is up to them. The job of the therapist is to unconditionally accept the client for who they are. I do not demand that my clients change.
However, the more you are prepared to work in therapy and the more risks you are prepared to take, the more you will get out of it.
Trish Howard
Psychotherapist & Counsellor, M.A, A.Dip, MUCKCP
e: trish@trishhoward.com
p: 087 614 2210
Artonomy, 2A Convent Road. 1st Floor.
Dun Laoighre, Co. Dublin, A96 W7C5