There comes a point in most peoples lives when they feel unable to cope. It can be due to external pressures such as work or personal issues dealing with relationships or finances. It can come about as a result of bereavement or loss. It can be due to current realities or past events. Often it can be a combination of things.
The individual can feel confused, depressed, anxious and worried, hopeless, angry, sad – the range of feelings and experiences is almost limitless. Dependency on stimulants or substances may have become a problem.
Compulsive behaviours can sometimes play a damaging role in peoples lives. This is where personal counselling may help a person to find a way through these difficult and often painful times.
White Light Healthcare has more than 18 years experience, across a wide range of circumstances and conditions, in enabling people to understand and to deal with adverse realities which have intruded into their lives.
Counselling can be undertaken on a one to one basis, a couple basis or on a family basis.
Your relationship with your counsellor is confidential, subject to certain legal and ethical obligations, aimed at securing the safety and welfare of individuals.
Counselling is not aimed at providing easy or prescriptive answers. Its purpose is to empower the individual, drawing out their awareness and their potential in dealing with issues of concern in their lives. It can help the individual to identify unrealised resources within the self.
The process usually requires a number of interactions or sessions between counsellor and client. These can be face to face (covid19 permitting), virtual or by telephone. Usually a minimum of 6-8 sessions is necessary to achieve some progress.
It may emerge in the course of interaction with your counsellor that more specialised supports or services are desirable. However this will always be a choice for the client to make themselves. These may range from health advice at GP level to specialised advice in relation to mental health.
It may be that additional family supports are required or therapies such as mindfulness, relaxation, or meditation may be appropriate.
White Light’s founder and principal, Mary Mernagh MA MIACP Dip counselling & psychotherapy, is a widely experienced practitioner in the field of personal and couple counselling.
She has worked as a one to one therapist, as a supervisor and as a group facilitator across the spectrum of services in the field of counselling and psychotherapy for more than 18 years.
Mary Mernagh has worked in both urban and rural settings, engaging with many different demographics, both individually and in organisational settings such as secondary schools, voluntary organisations and statutory bodies.
