Pathways to Change Psychology and Counselling services
Supporting the mental health and well being of individuals and families by providing Counselling and Psychological therapies to suit your needs.
At pathways to Change, we offer online and face to face Counselling in Castleknock, Dublin 15, to people who are experiencing difficulties in many different areas of their life.
For some it might be problems they face in their relationships, or others it may be a difficulty with building them, leaving them feeling lonely and isolated. You may be struggling to keep up with the pressures of todays world and the many complex and conflicting emotions that accompany that pressure. Others may feel a debilitating anxiety or feelings of low mood that can often feel too much. Some people can feel that something is not right for them in their life, but are unsure what is causing it.
Whatever you are going through, whatever your background, your racial identity, your gender identity, your sexual orientation, your stage in life, we hope you can take those brave first steps to contact us.
We recognise that each individual that contacts us brings their own unique history and needs, so we will take time to understand what you are experiencing and how best to help you through it. As different people need different things, we offer different therapies.
At Pathways to Change in Laurel Lodge, we offer CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) for a more therapist driven, manualised type of therapy working on understanding and adjusting our thoughts, physical sensations and behaviors.
We offer EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy) for a more experiential therapy where we aim to transform the pain that can be attached to emotional experiences by creating new emotional meaning for these experiences. Increasing emotional awareness, improving emotional regulation through new emotional experiences, changing emotion with emotion.
Person centred therapy, which offers a non judgemental, exploratory type of talk therapy.
We also offer Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, which helps you to understand how the past has influenced our current patterns of behaviour and what we can do to change those patterns that have become unhelpful.
Aim
Our aim is to reach as many people as we can by offering many different specialised forms of therapy both online and in person to suit your needs.
Values
We value strong trusting relationships between each therapist and client, and we believe that therapy can bring about change. We believe that the hope we carry for each individual client can be key to supporting you through the difficulties you face.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Pathways to change for?
Pathways is for anybody who is looking to improve their mental well being. Some people are not quite sure what is causing their distress or dissatisfaction with life, or in their relationships. For these people, we can help guide them to uncover and understand what might be getting in their way. For others, they may have a clear idea of what is causing their distress, but have been unable to make changes to ease their pain or discomfort. Others still are simply looking to find meaning and purpose.
How will I know if it’s right for me?
Embarking on a new therapeutic relationship can sometimes feel strange, where you will perhaps for the first time, be talking about deeply personal issues to another person. For this reason the “fit” between you and your therapist is very important. The therapeutic work needs to have a strong foundation of trust and openness to bring about change and if you don't feel that with your therapist, talk about it. It is important for you to ask questions and that you feel comfortable doing so. It is your right to check your therapist's qualifications, their “style” of therapy and how they work, this is your space and knowing the answers to these questions might help you to decide if the relationship feels “right for you.”
I have a child who is struggling with school/friends/emotions. Can Pathways to change help them?
Children can sometimes find it difficult to navigate the strong emotions they feel when faced with difficult situations. It can sometimes feel overwhelming for them to feel so much and often try to find ways to cope as best they can. At times this may create behaviours that parents or teachers or friends can struggle to understand or know how to support. Pathways can support the child to identify and work through these strong emotions through therapeutic play and art. Pathways can also help the child's parents to understand the behaviours that can feel disruptive or destructive and teach them how to be more emotionally attuned to what their child might need.