Codependency Counselling in Donaghmede

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Victoria Blackmore
Counsellor, Pre-Accredited Member IACP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
You might find yourself wondering, “why do I keep feeling this way?” or “why do I react like this, even when I don’t want to?” Hi, I’m Victoria. I work with people who feel stuck in patterns that don’t fully make sense, often in their self-worth, relationships, emotions, or the way they respond to life's challenges. You may be struggling with anxiety, low mood, people pleasing, a strong inner critic, or a sense that something hasn’t shifted, despite your efforts to move forward. Sometimes our past can continue to play out in the present until it is gently brought into awareness and processed.
You might find yourself wondering, “why do I keep feeling this way?” or “why do I react like this, even when I don’t want to?” Hi, I’m Victoria. I work with people who feel stuck in patterns that don’t fully make sense, often in their self-worth, relationships, emotions, or the way they respond to life's challenges. You may be struggling with anxiety, low mood, people pleasing, a strong inner critic, or a sense that something hasn’t shifted, despite your efforts to move forward. Sometimes our past can continue to play out in the present until it is gently brought into awareness and processed.
(01) 233 7063 x45 View (01) 233 7063 x45
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Linda Parsons
Verified Verified
Serves Area
The ideal environment is one that both supports & challenges us. Too often we go without both of these conditions. A Life Coach will tease out and help you create your vision of what you really want your life to be. If everything in your life stays status quo, you will head into a default future. We need another perspective if not we tend to go around repeating our default patterns and getting nowhere. As a Transformational Life Coach Linda will support you to become the successful and truly happy person you know you are meant to be.
The ideal environment is one that both supports & challenges us. Too often we go without both of these conditions. A Life Coach will tease out and help you create your vision of what you really want your life to be. If everything in your life stays status quo, you will head into a default future. We need another perspective if not we tend to go around repeating our default patterns and getting nowhere. As a Transformational Life Coach Linda will support you to become the successful and truly happy person you know you are meant to be.
(01) 267 6552 x14 View (01) 267 6552 x14
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Atvira Psychotherapy
Psychotherapist, MIACP
5 Endorsed
Serves Area
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or finding it hard to navigate your emotions or relationship with food? You don't have to do this alone. I work with adults and adolescents, offering a warm, grounded, judgment-free space where you can feel heard, supported, and understood. My approach is integrative and psychodynamic, meaning I work with you at a deeper level to make sense of your experiences, while also drawing on evidence-based tools like CBT-E for eating disorders and trauma-informed interventions.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck in old patterns, or finding it hard to navigate your emotions or relationship with food? You don't have to do this alone. I work with adults and adolescents, offering a warm, grounded, judgment-free space where you can feel heard, supported, and understood. My approach is integrative and psychodynamic, meaning I work with you at a deeper level to make sense of your experiences, while also drawing on evidence-based tools like CBT-E for eating disorders and trauma-informed interventions.
(01) 233 7063 x24 View (01) 233 7063 x24

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Scully Counselling & Psychotherapy
Psychotherapist, MIACP
Online Only
I have expertise in childhood trauma, attachment wounds, adoption, codependency, family and relationship difficulties and anxiety.
Ireland’s online therapist specialising in adoption, childhood trauma through Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). Hello, I'm Eimear Scully, an accredited psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience supporting adults across Ireland. I offer online therapy for people affected by childhood trauma, adoption, high-functioning anxiety, and other trauma. Many of my clients appear to cope well outwardly while experiencing anxiety, self-doubt, perfectionism, people-pleasing, relationship difficulties, or a persistent sense of not feeling good enough. These patterns often stem from early life experiences and attachment wounds.
I have expertise in childhood trauma, attachment wounds, adoption, codependency, family and relationship difficulties and anxiety.
Ireland’s online therapist specialising in adoption, childhood trauma through Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). Hello, I'm Eimear Scully, an accredited psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience supporting adults across Ireland. I offer online therapy for people affected by childhood trauma, adoption, high-functioning anxiety, and other trauma. Many of my clients appear to cope well outwardly while experiencing anxiety, self-doubt, perfectionism, people-pleasing, relationship difficulties, or a persistent sense of not feeling good enough. These patterns often stem from early life experiences and attachment wounds.
(01) 267 6622 x94 View (01) 267 6622 x94
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Edel Grogan
Psychotherapist, MSc, Pre-Accredited Member IACP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Do you look capable on the outside, but inside you are running on empty, constantly on edge, and trapped in survival mode. I see adults struggling with chronic anxiety, heavy overwhelm, and the isolating exhaustion of burnout. I work with those navigating perfectionism, low self-esteem, deep grief, and complex relationship or family patterns —including co-dependency, adult history of adoption, or the impact of narcissism and addiction. If life's personal and professional systems have left you feeling stuck, detached, and carrying heavy emotional baggage, you are not alone.
Do you look capable on the outside, but inside you are running on empty, constantly on edge, and trapped in survival mode. I see adults struggling with chronic anxiety, heavy overwhelm, and the isolating exhaustion of burnout. I work with those navigating perfectionism, low self-esteem, deep grief, and complex relationship or family patterns —including co-dependency, adult history of adoption, or the impact of narcissism and addiction. If life's personal and professional systems have left you feeling stuck, detached, and carrying heavy emotional baggage, you are not alone.
(061) 572 524 x58 View (061) 572 524 x58
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Colette Kehir
Counsellor, MIACP
Serves Area
As a therapist my role is to work with you, to bring about a more harmonious and connected relationship with yourself and in the case of Couples Therapy with each other. When you feel you are unable to talk to each other, I facilitate and show you how that can be very different. I can remove that stuck feeling and empower you both to communicate with ease and successfully address conflict resolution in your relationship. Sometimes we feel as if we are so stuck within ourselves and within our relationships, and its a perspective not a reality. When we approach issues differently, we create an oppportunity much understanding.
As a therapist my role is to work with you, to bring about a more harmonious and connected relationship with yourself and in the case of Couples Therapy with each other. When you feel you are unable to talk to each other, I facilitate and show you how that can be very different. I can remove that stuck feeling and empower you both to communicate with ease and successfully address conflict resolution in your relationship. Sometimes we feel as if we are so stuck within ourselves and within our relationships, and its a perspective not a reality. When we approach issues differently, we create an oppportunity much understanding.
(01) 267 6603 x31 View (01) 267 6603 x31
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Tree of Life Counselling and Therapy Centre
Counsellor, DCounsPsych, MIACP
Malahide, County Dublin K36
A positive first step towards greater well-being. Committed to the highest degree of ethical practice and care, our warm & professional team of counsellors and psychotherapists offer a safe, non judgmental environment. Helping you to reach your therapy goals and empowering you to explore, discover and clarify ways of living more resourcefully towards greater wellbeing. Our team brings an array of qualifications and modalities. We offer a free initial chat by phone with our clinic manager who can best direct you to the team member best suited to your needs.
A positive first step towards greater well-being. Committed to the highest degree of ethical practice and care, our warm & professional team of counsellors and psychotherapists offer a safe, non judgmental environment. Helping you to reach your therapy goals and empowering you to explore, discover and clarify ways of living more resourcefully towards greater wellbeing. Our team brings an array of qualifications and modalities. We offer a free initial chat by phone with our clinic manager who can best direct you to the team member best suited to your needs.
(01) 267 6681 x32 View (01) 267 6681 x32
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Unfurl Art Therapy
Psychotherapist, MIACP
1 Endorsed
Dublin, County D14
Hello, my name is Ciara McKeown, Art Therapist and owner of Unfurl Art Therapy. I am a fully qualified therapist with an MSc in Creative Arts Psychotherapy and BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and Art Therapy. Clients come to me who are grieving, feeling depressed, anxious, or don't know what they feel but know something isn't right. I also work with clients entangled in toxic relationships, particularly Narcissistic Abuse. Often these clients feel stuck. We work together to get them unstuck!
Hello, my name is Ciara McKeown, Art Therapist and owner of Unfurl Art Therapy. I am a fully qualified therapist with an MSc in Creative Arts Psychotherapy and BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and Art Therapy. Clients come to me who are grieving, feeling depressed, anxious, or don't know what they feel but know something isn't right. I also work with clients entangled in toxic relationships, particularly Narcissistic Abuse. Often these clients feel stuck. We work together to get them unstuck!
(01) 267 6675 x76 View (01) 267 6675 x76
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Samantha Doyle
Psychotherapist, MIACP
Saggart, County Dublin D24
I Specialise in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery. I suffered from anxiety&panic attacks for 22yrs due to bullying & narcissistic abuse, which held my back from achieving my goals until I got help. Being a Co-dependent people pleaser meant that I was putting other people’s wants and needs before my own, trying to get acceptance, manage the situation and to keep the peace. This was exhausting until I learned how to take my personal power back
I Specialise in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery. I suffered from anxiety&panic attacks for 22yrs due to bullying & narcissistic abuse, which held my back from achieving my goals until I got help. Being a Co-dependent people pleaser meant that I was putting other people’s wants and needs before my own, trying to get acceptance, manage the situation and to keep the peace. This was exhausting until I learned how to take my personal power back
(01) 267 6536 x47 View (01) 267 6536 x47
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Poliana Mihaela Aniculaesei
Psychotherapist, MA, MIACP
Dublin, County D6W
Mihaela Poliana Aniculaesei (MIACP) completed a Masters Psychotherapy for for Couples, Families and Children in 2011, full qualification in Gestalt Therapy in 2013 and a Diploma in Trauma Therapy in 2019. She also has full qualifications in EFT, WRAP and Capacitar, which provide crucial tools in working work with PTSD/trauma. She incorporates her Family Constellation training, mindfulness and dream work from a Gestalt Therapy approach into her work. Where appropriate she also incorporates motivational interviewing and solution focused therapy. She is a fully accredited member of IACP.
Mihaela Poliana Aniculaesei (MIACP) completed a Masters Psychotherapy for for Couples, Families and Children in 2011, full qualification in Gestalt Therapy in 2013 and a Diploma in Trauma Therapy in 2019. She also has full qualifications in EFT, WRAP and Capacitar, which provide crucial tools in working work with PTSD/trauma. She incorporates her Family Constellation training, mindfulness and dream work from a Gestalt Therapy approach into her work. Where appropriate she also incorporates motivational interviewing and solution focused therapy. She is a fully accredited member of IACP.
(01) 230 8537 x21 View (01) 230 8537 x21
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StillPoint Therapy
Psychotherapist, Pre-Accredited Member IACP
Dublin, County D03
Are you feeling overwhelmed, struggling with low mood or anxiety? Have you experienced a loss or bereavement, relationship difficulties, or a critical illness? Have you recently received a diagnosis of autism, or are you wondering whether neurodiversity plays a part in how you experience the world? Perhaps your LGBT+ journey feels difficult right now. If you're looking for clarity, relief, a stronger sense of self, or a space where you can speak freely and feel understood, this is a safe space for you.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, struggling with low mood or anxiety? Have you experienced a loss or bereavement, relationship difficulties, or a critical illness? Have you recently received a diagnosis of autism, or are you wondering whether neurodiversity plays a part in how you experience the world? Perhaps your LGBT+ journey feels difficult right now. If you're looking for clarity, relief, a stronger sense of self, or a space where you can speak freely and feel understood, this is a safe space for you.
(01) 233 7903 x43 View (01) 233 7903 x43
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Celine Murphy
Counsellor, MIACP
Dublin, County D09
My ideal client struggles with codependency issues, they are not very clear on how to put their boundaries in place or they’ve had a traumatic experience or childhood.
I offer a fresh perspective on my clients issues which doesn’t come from a place of bias. I explore my clients thought process along with their core beliefs and challenge any negative automatic thoughts that my client may be experiencing. My aim is to raise awareness around any behavioral issues while teaching new coping skills.
My ideal client struggles with codependency issues, they are not very clear on how to put their boundaries in place or they’ve had a traumatic experience or childhood.
I offer a fresh perspective on my clients issues which doesn’t come from a place of bias. I explore my clients thought process along with their core beliefs and challenge any negative automatic thoughts that my client may be experiencing. My aim is to raise awareness around any behavioral issues while teaching new coping skills.
086 165 0319 View 086 165 0319
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Simone Rauhut
Psychologist, MSc
Online Only
Together, we explore your challenges and develop a tailored plan to support meaningful change. Many clients begin to feel relief and greater clarity within the first few weeks, with deeper, lasting progress over time. I help clients facing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and relationship issues and more. I am available for short, long term and online therapy sessions In English and German. Over 12 years of experience of clinical practice in Ireland and Germany.
Together, we explore your challenges and develop a tailored plan to support meaningful change. Many clients begin to feel relief and greater clarity within the first few weeks, with deeper, lasting progress over time. I help clients facing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and relationship issues and more. I am available for short, long term and online therapy sessions In English and German. Over 12 years of experience of clinical practice in Ireland and Germany.
0179 4661326 View 0179 4661326
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Ana Griselda Fernandez
Psychologist, MPSI
Online Only
I am a psychotherapist specializing in Trauma, EMDR, and Mindfulness, with over 13 years of experience providing therapy in English and Spanish to people in Europe and around the world. My mission is to help you quickly overcome emotional blockages, anxiety, stress, grief, and challenging experiences that affect your emotional well-being and quality of life.
I am a psychotherapist specializing in Trauma, EMDR, and Mindfulness, with over 13 years of experience providing therapy in English and Spanish to people in Europe and around the world. My mission is to help you quickly overcome emotional blockages, anxiety, stress, grief, and challenging experiences that affect your emotional well-being and quality of life.
(01) 267 6692 x24 View (01) 267 6692 x24
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Thom Sherry
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Online Only
I'm from Dublin and now live in London. I have over 20 years experience as a Psychotherapist and Psychosexual Therapist. I work with a range of people presenting with complex difficulties. Such as ADHD , bipolar disorder, BPD, Anxiety, Depression, relationship difficulties, sexual problems , low self esteem, self doubt , imposter syndrome and more. I'm here to help you understand the labels given by yourself and others, and how they form part of your self-belief system , which can be supportive or undermining. How this can impact relationships, career and mental health.
I'm from Dublin and now live in London. I have over 20 years experience as a Psychotherapist and Psychosexual Therapist. I work with a range of people presenting with complex difficulties. Such as ADHD , bipolar disorder, BPD, Anxiety, Depression, relationship difficulties, sexual problems , low self esteem, self doubt , imposter syndrome and more. I'm here to help you understand the labels given by yourself and others, and how they form part of your self-belief system , which can be supportive or undermining. How this can impact relationships, career and mental health.
(01) 263 0393 x39 View (01) 263 0393 x39
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Rose Fitzpatrick
Counsellor, MIACP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
I am a psychotherapist, working with adults in Waterford city, I also work online. I have worked with clients therapeutically developing self-esteem, self-compassion and self-worth. I work in an integrative manner to support and empower the client. I aim to provide a safe, non-judgmental, confidential, therapeutic space to explore what is uniquely you. This is not a perfect process; it is as unique and individual as you are. Together, we will explore the issues you bring, and work collaboratively to find your way forward and what works for you.
I am a psychotherapist, working with adults in Waterford city, I also work online. I have worked with clients therapeutically developing self-esteem, self-compassion and self-worth. I work in an integrative manner to support and empower the client. I aim to provide a safe, non-judgmental, confidential, therapeutic space to explore what is uniquely you. This is not a perfect process; it is as unique and individual as you are. Together, we will explore the issues you bring, and work collaboratively to find your way forward and what works for you.
(01) 267 6517 x69 View (01) 267 6517 x69
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Liam O Dwyer
Psychotherapist, MSc, MIACP
Dublin, County D02
Wherever you are. However you are. You are welcome. Yes, sometimes we just can’t do it on our own and we need help. Therapy is one way to resource yourself to meet some of life’s challenges. Crippling anxiety, overwhelming grief, black depression are sources of deep pain and dark suffering. They can also be as a consequence of early traumatic experiences or negative beliefs we hold about ourselves. To accept where you are is the first step in healing yourself. Hi, I’m Liam and I create a safe place for you to explore your world, where I meet you with compassion and non-judgement in a confidential setting.
Wherever you are. However you are. You are welcome. Yes, sometimes we just can’t do it on our own and we need help. Therapy is one way to resource yourself to meet some of life’s challenges. Crippling anxiety, overwhelming grief, black depression are sources of deep pain and dark suffering. They can also be as a consequence of early traumatic experiences or negative beliefs we hold about ourselves. To accept where you are is the first step in healing yourself. Hi, I’m Liam and I create a safe place for you to explore your world, where I meet you with compassion and non-judgement in a confidential setting.
087 220 7364 View 087 220 7364
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Clodagh Monaghan
Psychotherapist, MIACP
Dublin, County D02
Hi, I’m Clodagh. I have been providing support for 20 years. This has deepened my ability to connect with people, which allows me to help you create meaningful changes in your live. I can offer you a supportive and compassionate space where we can begin to understand what’s happening for you, at a pace that feels safe and manageable. My approach is grounded in Person Centred (Talk) Therapy, enriched by a Somatic (Body) Orientated Therapy called The Hakomi Method. We can only change what we are aware of and my approach focuses on helping you access deeper levels of understanding, moving towards meaningful and lasting change.
Hi, I’m Clodagh. I have been providing support for 20 years. This has deepened my ability to connect with people, which allows me to help you create meaningful changes in your live. I can offer you a supportive and compassionate space where we can begin to understand what’s happening for you, at a pace that feels safe and manageable. My approach is grounded in Person Centred (Talk) Therapy, enriched by a Somatic (Body) Orientated Therapy called The Hakomi Method. We can only change what we are aware of and my approach focuses on helping you access deeper levels of understanding, moving towards meaningful and lasting change.
(01) 267 6552 x73 View (01) 267 6552 x73
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Brian Moriarty
Psychotherapist, Pre-Accredited Member IACP
Serves Area
I aim to give clients a healing environment that is private, strictly confidential, and judgment-free so they can recognise, investigate, and ultimately address their issues. I am an integrative psychotherapist, with a BSc Honours Degree, and have a genuine empathetic personality. In addition to integrating different models and methods of theory, I use a person-centred approach that is specifically customised to address the needs and concerns of each of my clients. These include internal family systems, attachment theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused therapy, and psychoeducation.
I aim to give clients a healing environment that is private, strictly confidential, and judgment-free so they can recognise, investigate, and ultimately address their issues. I am an integrative psychotherapist, with a BSc Honours Degree, and have a genuine empathetic personality. In addition to integrating different models and methods of theory, I use a person-centred approach that is specifically customised to address the needs and concerns of each of my clients. These include internal family systems, attachment theory, cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused therapy, and psychoeducation.
(01) 267 6595 x71 View (01) 267 6595 x71
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Samantha Mair
Psychotherapist
Online Only
I work with adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns that are difficult to shift alone. This can include anxiety, low mood, OCD, trauma, or longer-term emotional difficulties. Some people are managing day to day but feel burnt out, disconnected, or struggling with self-esteem. Many are high-functioning and used to coping independently. I work in a neurodiversity-affirming way and aim to bring clarity to what is happening beneath the surface, so change feels more possible. You don’t need a diagnosis to begin therapy.
I work with adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns that are difficult to shift alone. This can include anxiety, low mood, OCD, trauma, or longer-term emotional difficulties. Some people are managing day to day but feel burnt out, disconnected, or struggling with self-esteem. Many are high-functioning and used to coping independently. I work in a neurodiversity-affirming way and aim to bring clarity to what is happening beneath the surface, so change feels more possible. You don’t need a diagnosis to begin therapy.
07487 222155 View 07487 222155
Codependency Counsellors
What therapy types help with codependency problems?
Both couples and family therapy and cognitive and behavioral therapy (CBT) can help with the relationship difficulties referred to as codependency. Such problems typically include inappropriate feelings of responsibility for a loved one’s destructive behavior, irrational patterns of thinking about such behavior, and family interaction patterns in which the needs of one troubled member override the needs of others in a household.

What happens in therapy for codependency?
Spouses and family members learn and practice how to interact and support each other in a healthy way without sacrificing their own needs or well-being. They learn the limits of their responsibility for their loved ones and correct faulty patterns of thinking and feeling that underlie codependent behavior. Individuals may be encouraged to nurture an array of social relationships and to cultivate their own talents and interests so that they develop a healthy sense of self outside the family.

How does therapy help a person or couple overcome codependency?
Therapy helps people establish healthy ways of being in a relationship. Spouses and family members learn how to nurture and support one another without sacrificing their own needs or allowing the needs of one person to dominate the dynamic. Individuals learn how to say no and set boundaries, and how to maintain their own identity and self-esteem. Therapy helps people understand that they are not responsible for the feelings and actions of others. It also helps individuals deal with the turbulence that can come from living with a person suffering from such conditions as substance abuse and mental illness.

What is the goal of therapy for codependency?
One goal of therapy for codependency is to alleviate feelings of responsibility for and correct irrational patterns of thinking about loved ones whose behavioral problems override the needs of others in a household. Therapy helps people establish healthy boundaries of behavior and speak up for their own needs in a relationship. In addition, people learn how to maintain a healthy relationship, one in which both parties give and receive equally and are able to retain their own identity.