Dublin City Psychotherapy

There are anxiety treatments to treat panic attacks and panic disorder. Self-help strategies or a series of therapy sessions are common anxiety treatments. One of the most common anxiety treatments is cognitive behavioral therapy. It focuses on the thinking patterns and behaviors that are sustaining or triggering the panic attacks. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you to focus on these patterns and behaviors in a more realistic light, thereby making the attack less terrifying. Another of the most common treatments is exposure therapy for panic disorder. This is where you are exposed to the physical sensations of panic in a safe and controlled environment. This allows you to better learn ways of coping with panic when you do experience a panic attack. Hyperventilating, shaking your head side to side, and holding your breath are common examples that are used in exposure therapy for panic disorder. If you have agoraphobia, a fear of being in a situation where escape would be diffi...

Depression Counselling Treating Depression  In everyday life, it is common to hear people speak both publicly  [1]  and privately about feeling low or experiencing depression . Statistics from the World Health Organization tell us about the high level and incidence of depression worldwide  [2]  what is this epidemic called depression. Consulting a medical professional or searching online will describe many signs and symptoms that define depression ranging from low mood through to thoughts of self-harm and suicide. Psychoanalysis views depression as a symptom  [3] , a symptom of something else that has not found expression in the person’s speech causing much suffering to the person concerned – usually in their mental and physical health. It is not simply about a chemical imbalance located somewhere in the biology or physiology of the person. Psychotherapy and counselling is based on speech thus allowing the client to put into words their thoughts, feelings a...

  This is a good question. My first thought is yes, a client that has experienced a significant amount of abuse should (hopefully!) receive better therapeutic care from a trauma specialist. If you have the option to work with an experienced therapist who specializes in trauma disorders, snap up that opportunity as quickly as you can. Trauma therapy is very much its own area of study, the same as with any other mental health issue. In trauma work, the therapist must understand dynamics of traumatic relationships, trauma bonds, wide-ranging effects of trauma, layered complications of dissociative disorders, issues of external safety, self harm, system work, memory work, etc. There are dozens of issues specific to trauma disorders, with dissociative disorders being the most highly complex and requiring the greatest clinical skill. (Please see my article listing 50 Treatment Issues for Dissociative Identity Disorder.) The terms "trauma specialists" or " trauma therapists ...