Galway Counselling and Psychotherapy
Oranmore Counselling Centre, Castlecourt,
Oranmore
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Counselling & Psychotherapy Service
Patrick Kelly MIACP BA (Hons.) Counselling & Psychotherapy
Oranmore Counselling Centre
Castlecourt
Oranmore
Co. Galway
087 783 7892
I am a counsellor / psychotherapist in South Galway. I provide a confidential service for those who feel they would like to talk to someone.
People choose to see a therapist for a variety of reasons. Sadness, bereavement, anxiety, loneliness and searching for meaning in life are among the general causes of concern for people, who engage my services.
This is a brief overview of how I work:
I use an Integrative approach, which means I work from a number of schools of Psychology. The way I work with each individual is tailored to suit her or him.
Humanistic Psychology: forms the basis of all my therapeutic relationships. It is based on the core principals of Congruence, Empathy and Unconditional Positive Regard. This way of working helps individuals to feel understood, listened to, secure and not judged.
Psychodynamics: Psychodynamics is a modern form of Psychoanalysis. It uses psychoanalytic theories to interpret what the therapist perceives. One also examines the relationship between the therapist and the client. Psychodynamics is a way of looking at how an individual has interacted with his/her environment since birth. Psychodynamically speaking people tend to recreate situations in their life at an unconscious level, which they have experienced before. In other words they re-enact various parts of their lives. The work of Psychodynamics is to make people aware of their patterns of behaviour and emotions.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: focuses more on the interaction between thoughts, feeling and actions. The concept behind it is to influence feelings and behaviour by influencing your thought patterns. It employs relaxation techniques, reality testing and psycho-educational work around thoughts, feelings and actions. The core work of CBT is to diminish the power of negative thinking.
Specialties
Group Facilitation
Psychodynamics
Humanistic
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Existentialism
Group Therapy
Couples Therapy
Psychosynthesis