Our Beliefs

Life can be tough at times for everyone, Resilience Counselling & Coaching can provide the expertise and support needed to overcome difficulties. Be it depression, anxiety (Covid19, Social & General), panic attacks, grief, relationship problems, work issues, parenting, bullying, addiction or other life challenges, Rachel is here to help. She is an experienced & expert therapist certified by the Irish Association of Counselling & Psychotherapists (IACP). Rachel uses a client-centred and Pluralistic approach.

Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy is based on two key principles:

• There’s no ‘best’ way of doing therapy: different clients need different things at different times. 
• If therapists want to find out the best way of helping clients, they should talk to them about it. 

Rachel is trained in many methods: Personal-Centred Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Reality Therapy, Logotherapy, Somatic Counselling and tailors her approach to each client.

It is amazing how much can be achieved in even a few sessions.

Rachel offers Person to Person sessions as well as telephone and online counselling.

Interview data with clients identifies 5 processes of change:

1. INSIGHT LEADS TO BEHAVIOUR CHANGE: Learning about yourself, others, and why you can end up doing unhelpful things can help you make more helpful choices about what to do.
2. GETTING THINGS OFF YOUR CHEST. Talking about things to someone who cares and listens can lead to a sense of unburdening: not carrying so much stuff alone.
3. LEARNING COPING METHODS. Advice and guidance from the counsellor can help you find better ways of dealing with things.
4. DEVELOPING RELATIONAL ABILITIES. Trusting and opening out to the therapist can help develop the ability to communicate better with others in your life.
5. ENHANCING SELF-ACCEPTANCE. Telling your real experiences to someone who values and accepts you can lead you to feel more positive about yourself.

Source: Mick Cooper, Co-founder Pluralistic Therapy

Resilience Counselling helped me to overcome a relationship breakup and to find work that I really enjoy.

“Counselling helped me gain a greater clarity and understanding on how I was feeling; it made me see other aspects of my life from different angles and I began to see things as a broader picture.”

“The sessions are relaxed, open and a safe environment, which has me returning to them regularly, even if it’s just to vent feelings or clear my head. I still wonder why I hadn’t started sooner!”

“Rachel is a fantastic therapist…reliable, honest & willing to listen on a range of topics from grief to addiction to sexuality…allowing for an all encompassing discussion of issues. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough.”

“I started counselling crying and I was laughing by the time I finished.”