Galway Community counselling is open as an essential service, running a face to face counselling as well as an online service. They have updated their website to offer online bookings as part of their updated service. As a counselling service their therapists continue to grow and develop to meet the needs of the community. All therapists are fully qualified, some with specific specialities areas such as loss, child/adolescent therapy, sexuality, psycho-oncology, supervision and mindfulness.
As a society in these challenging times, we need to mind our mental health. Counselling can support in the day to day coping with anxiety and low mood we are facing. Living with the constraints of lockdown, all types of relationships are being challenged whether it be within family, work, or neighbtheirhood circles. The safe space that psychotherapy offers, allows individuals a place to breathe and meet themselves. Safe spaces are restorative and healing, allowing tensions and pressures within, a safety valve for release.
Michelle W Kennedy, one of the therapists notes that ‘Loss in a continuing aspect of covid we are all living with, whether it be in a clear way through losing a loved one, or in an ambiguous way through the many ways we are losing contact with their near and dear’. This sense of loss can be overwhelming and can create or add to anxiety. There are fewer places now to share and name this experience, but as this situation extends, there is a greater need for supports such as counselling.
Online counselling has taken a surge and it is been surprisingly effective. Up to lockdown, there had been a slow uptake and as covid lockdown has forced many unknown situations, online counselling reaches into the homes and allows safety spaces to open in new ways. We open their doors whether online or in person, you can reach us at www.galwaycommunitycounselling.com
