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Louise Cunningham —— Therapist

I am a practicing Therapist located in Enniscrone, Co. Sligo providing compassionate, client-centred psychodynamic therapy to individuals struggling with emotional and psychological challenges such as anxiety, stress, depression, confidence and relationship issues.

“What is really the matter” is not your depression or anxiety or eating disorder; it is what is going on psychologically that is giving rise to these difficulties, or perpetuating them. A shared understanding of what is the matter provides a focus for psychotherapy.

Effective therapy has a focus.

Psychotherapy should identify core issues and begin facilitating meaningful change from the outset My focus is on helping clients to identify and overcome the obstacles preventing them from leading a fulfilling and balanced life. I use psychodynamic psychotherapy to help clients analysis and articulate where they are at.

I am dedicated to continuing my professional development and regularly attend Supervision, staying up to date with the latest developments in the field to maintain a high standard of therapeutic practice.

Qualifications

  • MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy 

  • BA Interior Architecture

Psychodynamic Therapy

Facilitates self-examination and self-awareness

  • The therapist treats the whole person

  • Therapy emphasizes the examined life

  • “Success” means not only symptom improvement but a richer, freer life

  • The assumption is that negative feelings have their own origins, independent of logic; feelings are accepted and worked with on their own terms.

  • The patient is encouraged to follow thoughts and feelings where they lead

  • Considers the relationship between past and present

  • The patient’s emotional reactions to the therapist are viewed as opportunities to rework problematic relationship patterns.

Why Psychoanalysis?

This is what we make conscious—the patterns that disable and limit people—the ones that give ulcers either to the individuals themselves or to recipients in their orbit.

We understand these patterns and with painstaking effort help the afflicted come to understand them in themselves and others. We help them respond strategically instead of reacting impulsively or holding back endlessly.

We help people separate the wheat from the chaff, see the forest through the trees, find the leading edge, sort through competing priorities, and make rightful claims and necessary renunciations. We help them develop an ethical flexibility of mind and attitude, knowing when to be a stickler and when to give a wink and a nod, when to finesse a situation and when to play strictly by the rules, when to speak up and when to suck it up.

We help people navigate power dynamics, make adaptive distinctions and discriminations, and pick their battles. A psychoanalytic “read” can “pull” for good outcomes and help avoid blunders or traps. We help tame our baser instincts and harness optimal aggression, assertion, competition, intimacy, and sexuality instead of ending up mired in destructive, cut-throat aggression, impotent rage, or dehumanizing sexuality.

We help people be patient or impatient as circumstances dictate, suffer appropriately but not excessively, and rejoice to the utmost when warranted. We help people grow, change, integrate, modulate, decrease self-absorption, regard themselves accurately, take themselves seriously but not too seriously, free up emotional energy in the service of creativity and mastery—in short, become their best selves.

The reverberations go well beyond the individual, fostering richer and fuller family life, as well as functional and productive organizations, all with enormous ripple effect. Our work can help break the kinds of destructive cycles which, if left untreated, keep echoing through the generations.

 —Wendy Jacobson, Why Bother? A Psychoanalytic Graduation Speech

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