Noreside Counselling
Noreside Counselling offers individual counselling sessions for adults, children and adolescents. Appointments for couple and family therapy are also available.
Psychotherapeutic services
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
I work collabouratively with children and their parents offereing support and guidance through the challenges of childhood/ adolescence and the changing life cycle.I integrate several therapeutic methods to find the one which works for the child. This may include a combination of play/ sand/ art therapy or for older children it may be individual psychotherapy using some Dialectical Behavioural therapy.
Individual Psychotherapy
At my practice I offer individual psychotherapy that is person-centred and systemic. My approach is tailored to each individual's needs, helping them gain insight into their thoughts, feelings and behaviours in order to make positive changes in their life. I strive to create a safe, non-judgemental and supportive environment for our clients.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy focuses on a systemic approach to understanding the relationship dynamics between two people. I use this approach to help couples build communication skills, understand and resolve conflicts, and create a stronger, healthier relationship.
About
Noreside Counselling
What is family therapy?
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Family therapy is a way of working with families, so that they can understand and deal more effectively with any difficulties that family members may be experiencing. All families have their ups and downs and have to cope with crises from time to time. Usually, people can cope well enough with these difficulties but something things can mount up and seem too much. Systemic family therapy is an approach used to understand a person's emotional and psychological distress. Its a way of working with families, so that they can understand and deal more effectively with any difficulties that family members may be experiencing. The functioning and dynamics of the family are taken inot account and the context in which the problem is happening is examined.
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It draws upon the strengths and commitments of families
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It helps them explore difficulties being experience
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It assists family members to re build communications and relationships where they have broken down.
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It gives all members of the family a chance to have their voices heard.
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The family usually meets with the therpaist one a week or once a fortnight at an agreed time for an hour. Some families can resolve their difficulties in six or eight sessionand some may need more. At times, a whole family will attend together but this is not essential and even the presence of one or two people is enough to effect change. I include people of all ages but usually the first session will involve only the parents if there are young children in the family.
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Every family is different but the problems I often help families with are:
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Anxious children and teenagers
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School refusal
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Behaviour problems in children and adolescents.
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Working with the effects of past trauma in a family.
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Managing peaceful co-parenting after separation.
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Bereavement
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Working with families where there are addiction issues
About me
My name is Mairead Bacon and I am a fully accredited systemic psychotherapist (registered with the Family therapy Association of Ireland, the Psychotherapy Society of Ireland and the Eurpoean Association of Psychotherapy)
I specialise in working with anxiety, trauma and addiction. I also have extensive experience in the area of parent-child and family relationships.
For the past six years I have worked as a family therapist in an addiction centre run by the HSE in Tallaght.
In addition, I have worked as a psychotherapist with the National Counselling Service. This work has been mainly with individual clients who have suffered trauma as a result of abuse, addiction or inter generational factors.
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I also have over 20 years experience as a primary school teacher and have an indepth knowledge of additional needs and autism. I have also studied Applied Psychology to Masters level. Through out the years, I have worked with Barnardos and the ISPCC and am trained in Non violent Resistance which is a supportive program for parents that are experiencing child to parent violence.
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