Therapies at Mind and Body Works

Counselling and Psychotherapy


What is Counselling and Psychotherapy ? In counselling or psychotherapy, you work closely with a qualified therapist who is either a counsellor, psychotherapist or psychologist, to enable you to explore thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that affect your life negatively. Through counselling and psychotherapy you are given the support and safety to explore and understand these thoughts, beliefs and behaviours in the strictest confidence. Read more...

CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy


What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) ? Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a collaborative, practical and problem oriented approach to emotional problems whereby the client and therapist work together toward understanding difficulties in terms of the relationship between thoughts, feelings, body responses and behaviour. Read more...

Couple Relationship Counselling


Many relationships can reach a stage where one or both partners are finding it difficult to see a way forward. The relationship may no longer seem to be providing what the person is looking for and they may now be wondering if it is possible to bring in changes that can help improve the situation or whether the couple can remain together. Read more...

Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision


Clinical supervision is available for counsellors and psychotherapists, in line with the guidelines and requirements for members of professional counselling and psychotherapy associations. The supervisors working at our centre are accreditted to work with counsellors and psychotherapists who are members of the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and the Irish Association for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP). Supervision is provided to accreditted therapists, pre-accreditted members and students who are undergoing training in professional counselling and psychotherapy courses. Supervision is also available to professionals in related fields of social work, community work, social care and mental health professionals.

Clinical Psychological Assessment


Psychological Clinical Assessment is offered by an on-site psychologist working in the provision of educational and therapeutic intervention for adults, children and adolescents who may be displaying particular behavioural and emotional maladjustment. Read more...

Family Systemic Therapy


The beginnings of systemic therapy date back to the 1970’s.It developed as a result of the dissatisfaction some therapists felt with the disappointing results they were getting from using psychoanalytical methods. Read more...

Sex Therapy


What is Psychosexual Psychotherapy? Psychosexual Psychotherapy, also known as Sex Therapy is a specialised form of Psychotherapy which aims to help couples and individuals who are experiencing problems with their sexual functioning. Read more...

Psychotherapy and Counselling for Children


Child Psychotherapy provides individual psychotherapy to children who experience emotional difficulties in both, school or personal life. Emotional distress may express itself in an inability to concentrate in school, nightmares, seriously worrying about ‘unreasonable things’, bedwetting, acting-out, hyper activity, withdrawnness, sadness and eating disorders. Read more...

Rebirthing Psychotherapy


Rebirthing* therapy combines the more traditional methods of talk therapy with a very gentle but exceptional effective breathing technique. The combination offers the client the opportunity to explore their lives and to work towards change on many different levels. Read more...

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy


  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy explores issues in depth and may be long-term. It makes use of the idea that how you behave now is determined by past experiences and relationships. Read more...

Group Therapy


Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which a therapist works with a small number of people together as a group. Up to 8 individuals meet face-to-face with the trained group therapist and work through issues important to each individual but as a group. Read more...

Stress Management


Stress is an unavoidable fact of life! We all need challenge in our lives. Without it, the spring goes out of our step and our lives become monotonous, unproductive and frustrating. Our creative juices and coping mechanisms work best under a certain amount of pressure. Read more...

Employee Assistance Programmes EAP


Employee Assistance Programmes are designed as a short-term goal-focused therapeutic approach which helps employees and clients change by constructing solutions rather than dwelling on problems. Elements of the desired solution often are already present in the client's life, and become the basis for ongoing change. The ability to articulate what the changes will be like is often more important than understanding what led to the problem. Read more...

Sand Tray Therapy


Working with sand allows the client the experience of becoming aware of issues which can be diffficult to talk about or, at some level, are even unknown. Read more...

Acupuncture


Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been practiced for over 3000 years in China and since the early 1800s in the West. Chinese Medicine defines good health as a state of harmony or balance between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects. It takes into account the age, lifestyle, diet, level of stress and emotional state of the person. Read more...

Massage Therapy


  Massage is a very popular version of therapy. Treatments available include Swedish, Aromatherapy, Indian Head Massage or Sports Injury massage. Essential oils are massaged on to the body, particularly working on relaxing the areas of soft tissue or muscle. Read more...

Reflexology


This is a treatment performed on the feet. Reflexology points correspond to the whole body, and are manipulated by the therapist's thumbs and hands. The treatment aims to restore the body to its natural equilibrium. A treatment lasts 45 minutes. Read more...

Amatsu


Amatsu is a Japanese physical therapy and holistic approach to your health. It has evolved over a period of 5,000 years and has it's roots in the Ninjitsu martial arts. Read more...

Kinesiology


Systematic Kinesiology may be understood as a system of holistic natural health care which combines muscle monitoring with the principles of Chinese Medicine to assess energy and body function, applying a range of gentle yet powerful healing techniques to improve health, wellbeing and vitality. Read more...

Reiki


What is Reiki? Reiki is a gentle but powerful hands on healing art. It helps restore balance and harmony to the mind and body. Used throughout the world by people of all creeds and belief systems, Reiki is something that can benefit everyone. Read more...

Sports Massage


Sports Massage Sports massage is a form of massage involving the manipulation of soft tissue in order to benefit a client engaged in regular physical activity or for any client that might userepetitive muscle actions either in their work place or at home. Read more...

Holistic Facial Fitness


___FCKsi___1 Facial Fitness 4 U was set up by Mary Hegarty in 2009 and is a complete excercise program designed to prevent and reverse signs of aging in the face and neck. Facial exercise has many rehabilitative properties and specific facial excercise can reverse the signs of ageing. The facial fitness program strengthens all the underlying muscles of the face, neck, jaw, cheek, lips, eyes and forehead. Facial exercise is a holistic approach to beauty. It is considered the natural face lift and the results can last a lifetime. A one and a half hour session costs 95 Euros.