Depression Counselling in Dublin
I am an accredited psychotherapist, working with clients who are experiencing anxiety, depression, bereavement, stress, trauma, identity issues, neurodiversity, health and fertility-related issues .
There are many reasons why you might feel that this is the moment for some therapeutic support. It could be that you are experiencing depression, anxiety, bereavement, trauma, complicated family dynamics or relationship struggles. You may be undergoing a big life change, feeling isolated or experiencing challenging thoughts, feelings or an addiction.
I am an accredited psychotherapist, working with clients who are experiencing anxiety, depression, bereavement, stress, trauma, identity issues, neurodiversity, health and fertility-related issues .
There are many reasons why you might feel that this is the moment for some therapeutic support. It could be that you are experiencing depression, anxiety, bereavement, trauma, complicated family dynamics or relationship struggles. You may be undergoing a big life change, feeling isolated or experiencing challenging thoughts, feelings or an addiction.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, struggling with depression, or facing challenges in your relationships?
In addition to traditional therapeutic methods, I incorporate a solution-based approach to help you identify and work towards achievable goals. Whether you're seeking relief from symptoms, enhancing your relationships, or pursuing personal growth, together, we can create a roadmap for positive change.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, struggling with depression, or facing challenges in your relationships?
In addition to traditional therapeutic methods, I incorporate a solution-based approach to help you identify and work towards achievable goals. Whether you're seeking relief from symptoms, enhancing your relationships, or pursuing personal growth, together, we can create a roadmap for positive change.
People often begin therapy when recurring patterns start to interfere with how they want to live or relate to others. You might feel overwhelmed by stress, unsure how to respond to challenges, or aware that something needs to change even if the next step isn’t clear. Therapy offers a structured way of working toward change, whether that involves gaining perspective, developing different responses, or addressing longer-standing difficulties.
People often begin therapy when recurring patterns start to interfere with how they want to live or relate to others. You might feel overwhelmed by stress, unsure how to respond to challenges, or aware that something needs to change even if the next step isn’t clear. Therapy offers a structured way of working toward change, whether that involves gaining perspective, developing different responses, or addressing longer-standing difficulties.
Are you struggling to find peace in your life? Do you need a compassionate and supportive listening ear to explore your mental health difficulties? Mark has a profound interest and extensive experience in men's mental health, the LGBTQIA+ community, addiction, PTSD, Neurodiversity (ADHD and Autism) and other various mental health needs of those of all sexualities and genders. You may want to start psychotherapy to feel a sense of empowerment in your life, to allow you the freedom of living your life authentically or to learn how to manage, cope and strive through times of crisis or stress.
Are you struggling to find peace in your life? Do you need a compassionate and supportive listening ear to explore your mental health difficulties? Mark has a profound interest and extensive experience in men's mental health, the LGBTQIA+ community, addiction, PTSD, Neurodiversity (ADHD and Autism) and other various mental health needs of those of all sexualities and genders. You may want to start psychotherapy to feel a sense of empowerment in your life, to allow you the freedom of living your life authentically or to learn how to manage, cope and strive through times of crisis or stress.
I help adults heal from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, relationship struggles, workplace challenges, and more.
I offer a confidential, non-judgmental space where you can explore your needs, overcome challenges, and design simple, actionable steps toward your goals. Together, we’ll work to build clarity, confidence, and resilience—helping you improve your life, strengthen your relationships, and increase your performance and wellbeing.
I help adults heal from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, relationship struggles, workplace challenges, and more.
I offer a confidential, non-judgmental space where you can explore your needs, overcome challenges, and design simple, actionable steps toward your goals. Together, we’ll work to build clarity, confidence, and resilience—helping you improve your life, strengthen your relationships, and increase your performance and wellbeing.
I currently provide a professional and confidential service for adults presenting with depression & low mood; low self esteem ; anxieties disorders, including OCD, panic, phobias, physical health conditions, self-harm
Our physical and mental well-being are interlinked. At times we may feel our worries and anxieties are dictating the way we live our lives. At times we find ourselves not able to enjoy things that we used to and get no sense of achievement in activities that we do. Do you want to make changes, but you have no idea on how to begin.
I currently provide a professional and confidential service for adults presenting with depression & low mood; low self esteem ; anxieties disorders, including OCD, panic, phobias, physical health conditions, self-harm
Our physical and mental well-being are interlinked. At times we may feel our worries and anxieties are dictating the way we live our lives. At times we find ourselves not able to enjoy things that we used to and get no sense of achievement in activities that we do. Do you want to make changes, but you have no idea on how to begin.
Whether you saw it it coming or didn’t, the feeling is the same: You’re devastated. You gasp at your vulnerability and wonder, “Why did this happen?”
Life dishes up so many hardships: heartbreak, illness, injury, death, abandonment. Though we may share similar experiences, every hurt is personal. No matter how many times well-meaning people say, “We understand,” they don’t.
Whether you saw it it coming or didn’t, the feeling is the same: You’re devastated. You gasp at your vulnerability and wonder, “Why did this happen?”
Life dishes up so many hardships: heartbreak, illness, injury, death, abandonment. Though we may share similar experiences, every hurt is personal. No matter how many times well-meaning people say, “We understand,” they don’t.
Ger Elebert is a psychotherapist and counsellor working in Dublin. She holds an honours degree in psychotherapy and counselling and is fully accredited with the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Ger runs a full time private practice at 30 Mountjoy Square in Dublin where she offers a safe, confidential and non-judgmental therapy service to adults. Ger carries out her work with a deep sense of empathy in a humanistic style in which the needs of the client guide the therapy process. Ger strives to offer clients a meaningful therapeutic relationship in which healing and self understanding can occur.
Ger Elebert is a psychotherapist and counsellor working in Dublin. She holds an honours degree in psychotherapy and counselling and is fully accredited with the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Ger runs a full time private practice at 30 Mountjoy Square in Dublin where she offers a safe, confidential and non-judgmental therapy service to adults. Ger carries out her work with a deep sense of empathy in a humanistic style in which the needs of the client guide the therapy process. Ger strives to offer clients a meaningful therapeutic relationship in which healing and self understanding can occur.
My clients are usually at a crossroads, seeking depth, trust, and peace in relationships, and ready to face anxiety, depression, or past trauma.
I support clients with trauma, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and migration. With 10 years of experience, I use EMDR, Psychodrama, Gottman Couple Therapy, and other evidence-based methods, offering a safe space for therapy in both Turkish and English.
My clients are usually at a crossroads, seeking depth, trust, and peace in relationships, and ready to face anxiety, depression, or past trauma.
I support clients with trauma, relationship issues, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and migration. With 10 years of experience, I use EMDR, Psychodrama, Gottman Couple Therapy, and other evidence-based methods, offering a safe space for therapy in both Turkish and English.
As a therapist, I will offer a safe place where you can explore your issues and begin to understand your reactions to situations. With this understanding can come power, control and ultimately change. This will be a journey we take together with acceptance, curiosity and understanding.
As a therapist, I will offer a safe place where you can explore your issues and begin to understand your reactions to situations. With this understanding can come power, control and ultimately change. This will be a journey we take together with acceptance, curiosity and understanding.
Yes, talking is good and helps. But maybe therapy can be much more... I blend psychotherapy, coaching and CBT to see things differently and help in fresh new ways. Curious?
Yes, talking is good and helps. But maybe therapy can be much more... I blend psychotherapy, coaching and CBT to see things differently and help in fresh new ways. Curious?
Throughout our lives we encounter situations that challenge us. Sometimes we just can't get passed them, we get stuck and cannot seem to find a solution. As a result we become anxious, stressed or even depressed. I work with clients in a non directive way through psychoanalysis, which allows the client look at their situation or problems, explore the potential causes and find a way of dealing with them. There is no 'one size fits all' solution to personal difficulties, everyone's experience is unique and the psychoanalytic approach allows the client find a solution that is individual to their situation.
Throughout our lives we encounter situations that challenge us. Sometimes we just can't get passed them, we get stuck and cannot seem to find a solution. As a result we become anxious, stressed or even depressed. I work with clients in a non directive way through psychoanalysis, which allows the client look at their situation or problems, explore the potential causes and find a way of dealing with them. There is no 'one size fits all' solution to personal difficulties, everyone's experience is unique and the psychoanalytic approach allows the client find a solution that is individual to their situation.
Life Counselling and Psychotherspy
Psychotherapist, MSc, MIACP
Dublin, County D15
Waitlist for new clients
Currently full up and not taking on new clients
Currently full up and not taking on new clients
I am an experienced Humanistic Psychotherapist and Counsellor registered and accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). Based in the heart of Dublin, I offer both short-term and long-term therapy both in-person and online. Whether your reason for seeking therapy now is influenced by a current challenge in your life or whether you have been considering this for a long time, it would be a pleasure to meet you. My Person-Centred core approach means that I believe that each and every person can, and will, become a more fully functioning person if given the right conditions.
I am an experienced Humanistic Psychotherapist and Counsellor registered and accredited with the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP). Based in the heart of Dublin, I offer both short-term and long-term therapy both in-person and online. Whether your reason for seeking therapy now is influenced by a current challenge in your life or whether you have been considering this for a long time, it would be a pleasure to meet you. My Person-Centred core approach means that I believe that each and every person can, and will, become a more fully functioning person if given the right conditions.
I work from an integrative perspective grounded in person centered therapy. I adapt the therapy to the needs of the individual while respecting their views and values. I believe that most individuals can heal, grow and find resources within in a supportive and non-judgemental environment. I will work with you in exploring issues from the past and how they are affecting you in the present. I will also help you with tools and resources to help you in the day to day. I have a special interest in working with all members of the adoption triad specifically around, loss rejection and a sense of identity.
I work from an integrative perspective grounded in person centered therapy. I adapt the therapy to the needs of the individual while respecting their views and values. I believe that most individuals can heal, grow and find resources within in a supportive and non-judgemental environment. I will work with you in exploring issues from the past and how they are affecting you in the present. I will also help you with tools and resources to help you in the day to day. I have a special interest in working with all members of the adoption triad specifically around, loss rejection and a sense of identity.
I work with clients who wish to explore who they are and discover ways of living that are meaningul to them. This involves mapping unconscious processes, drawing out internal tensions, and relieving unnecessary suffering with a view to actualising the fullness of oneself.
I draw primarily from psychodynamic, pluralistic, and existential therapeutic modalities, emphasising depth and freedom. My practice is also influenced by dreamwork, literature, and meditation.
I work with clients who wish to explore who they are and discover ways of living that are meaningul to them. This involves mapping unconscious processes, drawing out internal tensions, and relieving unnecessary suffering with a view to actualising the fullness of oneself.
I draw primarily from psychodynamic, pluralistic, and existential therapeutic modalities, emphasising depth and freedom. My practice is also influenced by dreamwork, literature, and meditation.
You’re about to take the first step on a journey, perhaps to find more joy in life, perhaps to untangle relationships, perhaps to understand yourself or others better. Whatever the reason, if we get to talk, I hope I can help you along the way. I understand that for some people, deciding to speak to a counsellor can be difficult. My aim is to provide you with a safe, confidential, and comfortable space; somewhere you can truly be you, secure in the knowledge that there is no judgement, but instead warmth, understanding, empathy and a friendly face.
You’re about to take the first step on a journey, perhaps to find more joy in life, perhaps to untangle relationships, perhaps to understand yourself or others better. Whatever the reason, if we get to talk, I hope I can help you along the way. I understand that for some people, deciding to speak to a counsellor can be difficult. My aim is to provide you with a safe, confidential, and comfortable space; somewhere you can truly be you, secure in the knowledge that there is no judgement, but instead warmth, understanding, empathy and a friendly face.
I offer a carefully-bounded confidential space in which to speak of anxiety, depression, hopes and dreams.
I have trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical CBT, attachment based (mentalisation) therapy, systemic family therapy, trauma-focussed therapy and emotional-focussed couples therapy. I work with young people, individual adults and with couples. My focus is on offering the most appropriate therapy to the client.
I offer a carefully-bounded confidential space in which to speak of anxiety, depression, hopes and dreams.
I have trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical CBT, attachment based (mentalisation) therapy, systemic family therapy, trauma-focussed therapy and emotional-focussed couples therapy. I work with young people, individual adults and with couples. My focus is on offering the most appropriate therapy to the client.
When we are suffering we tend to look at all that is wrong in our lives. We sometimes make judgements and assumptions about ourselves or our situations that focus mainly on the negative. We each have developed ways of being in the world that have enabled us to cope with whatever challenges we have had to face. These coping strategies become our defence mechanisms and are often developed by us at an early age when we had few resources. They can sometimes create negative patterns of relating to others and the world around us and become barriers to intimate or professional relationships.
When we are suffering we tend to look at all that is wrong in our lives. We sometimes make judgements and assumptions about ourselves or our situations that focus mainly on the negative. We each have developed ways of being in the world that have enabled us to cope with whatever challenges we have had to face. These coping strategies become our defence mechanisms and are often developed by us at an early age when we had few resources. They can sometimes create negative patterns of relating to others and the world around us and become barriers to intimate or professional relationships.
I have a keen interest in mental health and have spent many years volunteering on the Helpline with AWARE, which is an organisation dedicated to supporting people who are suffering from depression.
Life touches us all with moments of pain and loss, yet some seem to find their way through more easily than others. My curiosity about what helps people heal led me to study human behaviour—how we think, feel, and respond to life’s challenges. I’m especially drawn to supporting those experiencing grief or loss, whether of a loved one, a job, or health. My hope is to offer a warm, compassionate space where you can gently explore your experiences and begin to rediscover strength, self-understanding, and hope.
I have a keen interest in mental health and have spent many years volunteering on the Helpline with AWARE, which is an organisation dedicated to supporting people who are suffering from depression.
Life touches us all with moments of pain and loss, yet some seem to find their way through more easily than others. My curiosity about what helps people heal led me to study human behaviour—how we think, feel, and respond to life’s challenges. I’m especially drawn to supporting those experiencing grief or loss, whether of a loved one, a job, or health. My hope is to offer a warm, compassionate space where you can gently explore your experiences and begin to rediscover strength, self-understanding, and hope.
Nearby Depression Counsellors Searches for Dublin
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Depression Counsellors
What is the goal of therapy for depression?
Therapy for depression has several major goals. One is to relieve the mental pain of depression, which distorts feeling and thinking so that sufferers cannot see beyond their current state of mind or envision feeling better. Another is to give people the mental tools to recognise and correct the kinds of distorted thinking that turn a problem into a catastrophe and lead to despair. Therapy also teaches people how to process negative emotions in constructive ways, so they have more control over their own emotional reactivity. And it helps people regain the ability to see themselves positively, the motivation to do things, and the capacity for pleasure.
What happens in therapy for depression?
Perhaps most important, no matter the type of therapy, patients form an alliance with the therapist; that connection is therapeutic in itself, plus it becomes an instrument of change. Patients learn to identify and to challenge their own erroneous beliefs and thoughts that amplify the effects of negative experiences. They learn to identify situations in which they are especially vulnerable. And they learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. They may be given “homework” assignments in which they practice their developing skills. In addition, good therapists regularly monitor patients to assess whether and how much the condition is improving.
What therapy types help with depression?
Several types of short-term therapy have been found effective, each targeting one or more areas of dysfunction. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioural activation (BA) is a form of therapy often used in conjunction with CBT; it focuses on engagement in rewarding activity as a pathway to changing negative feelings and disturbed mood. Another widely used approach is interpersonal therapy (IPT), which targets the social difficulties that both give rise to and get exacerbated by depression. Therapists may combine approaches as needed.
Can therapy for depression be done online?
Studies have found that online therapy can be highly effective for treating depression, although it may be more challenging to build a good therapist-patient alliance on screen than in person—at least at first. However, online therapy can offer considerable advantages. Accessibility and convenience are tops among them. Some people actually find it easier to talk about problems online than in person. While online therapy typically limits visibility of facial expression and body gestures that give important nonverbal cues to a patient’s state of mind, it can give therapists a glimpse into a patient’s world and life, providing information that can be highly useful in guiding therapy.
How effective is therapy for depression?
Many studies show that therapy is highly effective provided that patients complete the prescribed course of therapy, commonly 16 to 20 sessions. Over the long term, it is more effective than medication and the effects are more enduring. As a result, psychotherapy has the power not just to relieve current suffering but to prevent future episodes of the disorder. Therapy reverses the dysfunction in neural circuitry that disposes individuals to a negative view of themselves, the world, and their future and they acquire coping techniques, problem-solving skills, and understanding of their own vulnerabilities that are useful over the course of a lifetime.