A Happy Workforce is a Productive Workforce: The Importance of Corporate Wellness

You may have come across a very interesting article in last weekend’s Irish Times by Joanne Hunt, called “Whistle While you Work”. The article focused on how happy staff are more beneficial to an organization than unhappy staff and how companies are playing a part in improving their employees happiness and indeed overall health. This […]

Depression in Men and Women: The Gender Differences of Symptoms

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Depression is a very common problem today in Ireland with 1 in 5 people believed to be affected by the illness at some stage in their lifetime. This means there is a good chance you know someone who suffers with the problem. We all experience events in our lives which can leave us “feeling down” […]

Maintaining Psychological Wellbeing in Later Life

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As we age, our physical health becomes of paramount importance. Unfortunately, our mental and psychological wellness as we age does not always receive the same level of care or attention from ourselves, our friends and families and even the health professionals involved in our general care.  There is a common misperception that ageing inevitably leads […]

Psychology Services Now Open in Barrow Street

We are delighted to announce that as of today (October 31st, 2012), we will be providing our Psychology Services from our clinic in Barrow Street in Dublin. We provide treatment for a wide range of issues such as Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Eating Disorders and Mood Disorders  among many other problems. The clinic is located within Barrow Medical, […]

Dublin City Marathon : Marathon Mental Tips

Thousands of athletes will come together, after months of arduous training for the 33rd Dublin City Marathon on October 29th, which will spread over the Georgian streets of  the city. We often tend to focus solely on the physical demands of a marathon but this is just as equally mentally testing. Both the long period of training […]

Psychological Wellbeing During Pregnancy

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While pregnancy can be a time of great excitement and joy it is also increasingly recognised as a time of physical and psychological challenges. We know from research that physical functioning and emotional wellbeing decline during pregnancy, particularly in late pregnancy and the first six weeks postnatally. However for most, a mother’s physical and psychological […]