Q: Why is it good to talk to someone outside of my circle of friends and family?
There are times when life can become overwhelming, or you may feel depressed or anxious, have a sense of being stuck or lost. There may be particular events which are troubling for you, such as bereavement, or a divorce, redundancy or illness. Each of those can challenge our ability to cope with our lives.
Talking can help! But who to talk to? Colleagues, family members and friends can be a great source or support but it’s not always easy to confide in those closest to you. And sometimes they can even be part of the things that are troublesome for you. At times like these talking to someone who is not personally involved can make a difference. You may want to speak to someone who will not judge you; someone who will offer understanding and provide a safe and confidential space. You may want to speak with someone who helps you open the door to a happy and more meaningul life.
To benefit most from engaging in a change process, it is important that you find a person you think you can connect with and built up a trustful working relationship. This is one of the major factors to make counselling, psychotherapy or coaching effective. I invite you for a first meeting where we can explore your concerns and where I will explain to you the way we may work together. It also gives us the opportunity to get a sense of each other. The initial session lasts approximately one hour. Afterwards you can decide whether you wish to proceed.
There are times when life can become overwhelming, or you may feel depressed or anxious, have a sense of being stuck or lost. There may be particular events which are troubling for you, such as bereavement, or a divorce, redundancy or illness. Each of those can challenge our ability to cope with our lives.
Talking can help! But who to talk to? Colleagues, family members and friends can be a great source or support but it’s not always easy to confide in those closest to you. And sometimes they can even be part of the things that are troublesome for you. At times like these talking to someone who is not personally involved can make a difference. You may want to speak to someone who will not judge you; someone who will offer understanding and provide a safe and confidential space. You may want to speak with someone who helps you open the door to a happy and more meaningul life.
To benefit most from engaging in a change process, it is important that you find a person you think you can connect with and built up a trustful working relationship. This is one of the major factors to make counselling, psychotherapy or coaching effective. I invite you for a first meeting where we can explore your concerns and where I will explain to you the way we may work together. It also gives us the opportunity to get a sense of each other. The initial session lasts approximately one hour. Afterwards you can decide whether you wish to proceed.
Q: What is the difference between counselling, psychotherapy and coaching?
Counselling is usually the way to go when you find yourself in an acute crisis situation and you wish to have support during this difficult period. Or when you feel that there is something in your life that is not a crisis but that you still want to change. This could be to become more assertive, to reduce stress or to improve your relationships, to mention only a few. Counselling can be seen as a short-term engagement focused on a specific issue in order to help you to discover new ways out of an impasse. Sometimes during the process of counselling certain issues come up that require a long-term approach, which is then called psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy is a longer-term approach. It endeavours to look at the foundation on which we live our everyday life. It invites us to explore the underlying psychological make-up that causes or contributes to our current difficulties. In discovering this deeper knowledge of ourselves we can then choose different and more satisfying ways to live our life and connect with our creativity.
Coaching focuses on your professional life and how to improve your effectiveness and satisfaction at work. Typical situations where people seek coaching are conflicts with staff, colleagues or superiors; recent promotions, dissatisfaction with the job and/or employer; active career planning as well as difficulties at the interface between professional and personal life. Like counselling, coaching is usually a short-term process. My services range from identifying someone’s core competencies, developing better leadership-skills, improving interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills to support decision-making processes and the development of a healthy work/life balance.
In areas like Team Development, Career Transition, Strategic Planning Facilitation and Motivational Speaking I work in close collaboration with my colleague Nial O’Reilly of Ignite Coach.
The following article ‘Coaching versus Psychotherapy’ that I have published in the IAHIP-Magazine ‘Inside out’ (Issue 56, Winter 2008) may also shed some light on it.
Counselling is usually the way to go when you find yourself in an acute crisis situation and you wish to have support during this difficult period. Or when you feel that there is something in your life that is not a crisis but that you still want to change. This could be to become more assertive, to reduce stress or to improve your relationships, to mention only a few. Counselling can be seen as a short-term engagement focused on a specific issue in order to help you to discover new ways out of an impasse. Sometimes during the process of counselling certain issues come up that require a long-term approach, which is then called psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy is a longer-term approach. It endeavours to look at the foundation on which we live our everyday life. It invites us to explore the underlying psychological make-up that causes or contributes to our current difficulties. In discovering this deeper knowledge of ourselves we can then choose different and more satisfying ways to live our life and connect with our creativity.
Coaching focuses on your professional life and how to improve your effectiveness and satisfaction at work. Typical situations where people seek coaching are conflicts with staff, colleagues or superiors; recent promotions, dissatisfaction with the job and/or employer; active career planning as well as difficulties at the interface between professional and personal life. Like counselling, coaching is usually a short-term process. My services range from identifying someone’s core competencies, developing better leadership-skills, improving interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills to support decision-making processes and the development of a healthy work/life balance.
In areas like Team Development, Career Transition, Strategic Planning Facilitation and Motivational Speaking I work in close collaboration with my colleague Nial O’Reilly of Ignite Coach.
The following article ‘Coaching versus Psychotherapy’ that I have published in the IAHIP-Magazine ‘Inside out’ (Issue 56, Winter 2008) may also shed some light on it.
Q: How do you work?
I work in a way that is classically called ‘talk-therapy’. This means that I listen very carefully to your concerns and what you are already doing to cope. Together we then explore certain issues in more depth. This can bring up feelings and strong emotions that have sometimes been locked away for a very long time. I provide you a non-judgemental and confidential space so that these feelings and emotions can come to the surface. Together we explore what could be the roots of these feelings and emotions and develop new ways forward towards a happier, more meaningful and authentic future.
In doing this I fully believe that there is a self-healing power in each of our psyches that on a deep level knows what is best for us. Therefore, I do not provide solutions or give advice. I see my role as helping you to get in contact with this innate power so that you can find the solutions that really resonate with you. The way I understand my work is not to find a quick-fix and all-time happiness but to help you to better manage disappointment, frustration, anger, sadness, longing and depression. By learning to engage with your problems and current limitations in a more compassionate, constructive, and honest way, you open your own pathway to healing through deep-rooted transformation.
And in more technical terms: I trained in integrative psychotherapy, encompassing concepts from person-centered, existential, psycho-dynamic, CBT and solution-focused therapy. Furthermore, I draw significantly from concepts of Analytical Psychology according to C. G. Jung.
My coaching training was systemic and is strongly influenced by communications psychology according to Friedemann Schulz von Thun and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
I work in a way that is classically called ‘talk-therapy’. This means that I listen very carefully to your concerns and what you are already doing to cope. Together we then explore certain issues in more depth. This can bring up feelings and strong emotions that have sometimes been locked away for a very long time. I provide you a non-judgemental and confidential space so that these feelings and emotions can come to the surface. Together we explore what could be the roots of these feelings and emotions and develop new ways forward towards a happier, more meaningful and authentic future.
In doing this I fully believe that there is a self-healing power in each of our psyches that on a deep level knows what is best for us. Therefore, I do not provide solutions or give advice. I see my role as helping you to get in contact with this innate power so that you can find the solutions that really resonate with you. The way I understand my work is not to find a quick-fix and all-time happiness but to help you to better manage disappointment, frustration, anger, sadness, longing and depression. By learning to engage with your problems and current limitations in a more compassionate, constructive, and honest way, you open your own pathway to healing through deep-rooted transformation.
And in more technical terms: I trained in integrative psychotherapy, encompassing concepts from person-centered, existential, psycho-dynamic, CBT and solution-focused therapy. Furthermore, I draw significantly from concepts of Analytical Psychology according to C. G. Jung.
My coaching training was systemic and is strongly influenced by communications psychology according to Friedemann Schulz von Thun and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." (Viktor E. Frankl)
Ulrike Kennedy ++ call 085 - 1388842 ++ Galway