A counselling service in Newry and the surrounding areas that is tailored to you as a unique individual

If you have experienced the death of someone who was very important to you, you might be finding it very difficult to adjust to the immense changes happening in your life right now. Grief can shake everything up - your beliefs, your personality, and even your sense of reality.

Bereavement is the time we spend adjusting to loss. There is no standard time limit and there is no right or wrong way to feel during the bereavement period - everyone must learn to cope in their own way but you don't have to do it on your own.

Anxiety can be seen as a typical yet unpleasant part of life that can affect us all in different ways. If you are suffering from anxiety you may feel vulnerable, irritable, tense, nervous, uptight, afraid or prone to panic attacks.

Common in all these complaints is the overwhelming effect of the body producing too much adrenaline in response to a perceived danger or threat. This results in physical symptoms that can affect your daily life. Take back control by contacting me today.

People often ask: ‘How do I deal with confidence and self-esteem, overcoming negative feelings I have about myself?’

If you believe you have low confidence and self esteem or need to boost your self confidence, Sally's one to one counselling can help you overcome your negative feelings about yourself. 

 Many people’s lack of self-confidence originates from when they were young, whereas others lose confidence following a traumatic event or negative experience. This can result in a lack of trust in others or ourselves.

Working to improve your self-esteem takes time and effort. It requires courage and honesty to confront the things in yourself you don’t like but long-term it is a worthwhile task which should help you to feel better about yourself and your life.

You may be single by choice or have been unable to connect with someone special. If you are divorced or widowed you may believe that you already had your one opportunity to find love in a lasting relationship. Maybe you grew up in a dysfunctional family that has left you unsettled and mistrustful of becoming intimate in a relationship.

These are many reasons why single people enter counselling.

Understanding the emotional factors that influence your relationships and determine your satisfaction with your current life situation is the first step in deciding how to improve your experience.

Someone who has an eating disorder will be intently focused on their weight and body shape, which they may perceive as being unattractive or overweight. These perceptions lead to changes in eating habits which can affect the person's physical and mental health.

While eating disorders tend to be more common in certain age groups, they can affect men and women of all ages from all types of backgrounds. Typically eating disorders are a sort of coping mechanism, helping the sufferer to control or deal with difficult feelings - albeit in an unhealthy way. Accepting that food is not your enemy can be a difficult and long process, one to one counselling can help you address these issues. 

Anger issues can be presented in different forms such as verbal and/or physical. Often, anger problems are due to poor management of our emotions. Anger, like all emotions, involves physiological and chemical changes in the body - affecting heart rate and adrenaline levels. There is a fine line between acknowledging anger and venting it until it is out of control.

Anger management therapy is designed to help individuals learn how to control their anger more effectively and lessen the impact their anger problems are having on their lives and the people around them. This will help you to take responsibility for your actions.Together, we will explore anger in more detail and how anger management therapy can help turn unhealthy anger into healthy anger.

Kicking the prescription drug abuse habit -- or any other addiction -- is a major accomplishment. But for most people with opioid addiction, detox is only the beginning of a long-term battle against craving and relapse.

Counseling is an essential part of drug abuse treatment for many people. Cognitive behavioral therapy, family counselling, and other therapy approaches can help people recovering from opioid addiction stay clean. Psychotherapy can also treat the other mental health conditions that often contribute to prescription drug abuse.

It doesn't matter if you’re married, living together, single, gay or straight - relationship therapy is for anyone and everyone.

Lots of people have an idea of what relationship counselling is and think that you only need counselling when things get really bad. Even if your problems seem trivial, I can offer pragmatic, non-judgemental support and advice that could help you to turn things around and co-exist more positively. It about rekindling the positive feelings of love for one another, and building trust in your relationship.  

Many of us will exhibit perfectionist traits and the need for things to be clean and orderly, but for some people this perfectionism becomes a preoccupation. They will be so overly focused on orderliness and rigidly adhering to certain rules, rituals and systems that they will struggle to lead happy and fulfilling lives. 

Your relationships may suffer, and so could your health and well-being. Living in such a controlled and inflexible way can cause significant distress. Get in touch with me to discuss methods of managing this issue.