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Psychotherapy - Children and Adults - Psychoanalytical Approach
___________________________________ Psychology, Psychotherapy/ Psicologia, Psicoterapia

02/01/2026

✨ Blessed are the moments that feel like a fresh start, the first days of the month, a new Monday, or the beginning of a New Year. They remind us that life does not simply continue, it gently invites us to begin again.

✨Start over without fear and without rush. Walk your path with intention, freedom, and kindness toward yourself. Follow your dreams wholeheartedly, savoring the journey and embracing every possibility along the way.

✨Here’s to new beginnings!

May we welcome 2026 with open hearts, renewed hope, and deep trust in life.

We are also here if you need to walk together 🤎

Happy and powerful New Year - 2026

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26/12/2025

🍃The holiday season can be magical but also overwhelming. Between shopping, social gatherings, and endless to-do lists, it’s easy to forget about your own needs. That’s why self-care is more important than ever during this time of year.

Check- out our Self-Care Bingo Challenge 💚

Here’s a fun and simple way to remind yourself to pause and prioritize your well-being🍃 Complete as many activities as you can to bring balance and joy into your holiday routine.
Share your progress with us or tag a friend to join the challenge! Let’s make self-care the highlight of this holiday season 💚

24/12/2025

🎄 As Christmas approaches, may it remind us of the beauty of new beginnings and the mystery of birth.

May it renew within us the courage to hope,
to keep dreaming even in times of uncertainty,
and to love — again and again. 🤎

May the end of this year invite us to gently close cycles that no longer make sense,
making space for what is new.

“What life asks of us is courage.” 🌱

With gratitude to all patients, partners, colleagues, and friends who made this year so meaningful.
We continue together into the year ahead.

✨ Merry Christmas ✨

With warmth,

🌱Caroene Santos Murray & Tree of Life Team 🌱

18/12/2025

🎄 Does Santa Claus exist in your home?

Santa Claus can be understood as a symbol of bonding, affection, and shared imagination within families.

Play and imagination are essential pillars of children’s emotional and mental development. Through symbolic play, children learn to express emotions, understand social rules, and make sense of the world around them.

Fantasy figures — like Santa Claus or fairy tales — support this developmental process. Discovering the truth later on, when it happens in a healthy and respectful way, is also part of emotional maturation and helps children develop resilience and critical thinking.

✨ If Santa exists in your home, allow this symbol to be rooted in affection, safety, and connection.
Let children imagine, explore, and live the magic — without fear, threats, or manipulation.

🎄 Important reminders for parents:
• Never use fantasy figures to scare, threaten, or control children
• Avoid using Santa as a bargaining tool for behavior or milestones
• Keep Santa’s gifts simple — let bigger gifts come from family

What truly matters is that children feel safe, heard, and able to trust their caregivers 🤍

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Caroene Santos Murray
Child, Perinatal & Parental Psychologist
Tree of Life Clinic

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16/12/2025

🌱Life does not fit into a calendar 🗓️
and it fits even less into social media.

Our lives, our years, and our existence cannot be measured solely by algorithms, numbers, or curated highlights.

Creating a beautiful feed with nice photos is not that difficult.
But be careful don’t be fooled.
A polished feed is not the same as a meaningful or fulfilled life.

Be gentle with yourself when comparing your real life to other people’s Instagram lives.
What you see there is only a fragment never the whole story. It’s ok to be inspired and get it on but also ok to take it easy and filter.

🌱Remember: life is made of good days and hard days,
and mostly of ordinary days.

Days of routine, pauses, quiet moments,
and times when nothing extraordinary seems to be happening yet so much is unfolding beneath the surface.

Our “victories” over the course of a year are often far greater than what any photo can capture. Sometimes we can capture but there is so much more behind.

Slow down……. 🐌

Some things arrive and transform over a time much longer than 365 days…
much longer.

There is no rush.
Life is not a race.
Take you time.
Celebrate every moment.

🌱 Tree of Life Clinic

10/12/2025

🌻 Starting a conversation with children about death, why people leave, and how things come to an end is delicate.
It requires sensitivity, empathy, and an understanding of the child’s developmental stage and symbolic world.

📔🎬 Literature and art, with their power to represent emotions and experiences, are precious allies.
Children’s books and films help us talk about the life cycle, death, and grief — like a compass guiding boats drifting on the high seas. We need orientation to approach endings with care.

🌻 Although this topic often brings discomfort, there is a consensus among child-development specialists: active listening means welcoming children’s “whys” with respect and reverence.

🌻 Children are naturally curious about death. What we can offer is a repertoire to navigate what hurts — and the courage to access our own fears without worrying about appearing vulnerable in front of them.
Honest conversations and emotional openness are keys to a loving, secure relationship — not only with children, but with anyone we care for.

➡️ Swipe to see tips for reading and watching with the little ones.

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Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist - Children and adults 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

04/12/2025

🌱 WE ARE HIRING 🌱

Part-time Child Psychologist / Psychotherapist
📍 Tree of Life Clinic – South Dublin (on site only)
🗓️ Start: Around February 2026

We are expanding our Child & Youth Department and are looking for a warm, experienced clinician to join our team. The role involves play-based psychotherapy, emotional development work, symbolic/ludic interventions, and parental guidance — within a psychodynamic-informed framework.

🌱Requirements:
• Valid professional registration (PSI, IACP, IAHIP, ICP or equivalent)
• Minimum 3 years of experience with children and/or adolescents
• Strong skills in play therapy and developmental understanding
• if not Citizen- Legal permission to work in Ireland (EU/Stamp 1G/Stamp 4)
• Fluent English — bilingual applicants are a plus

🌱What we offer:
A supportive clinical environment, a fully equipped playroom, supervision with the lead psychologist, consistent referrals, and a warm, multicultural team.

📄 Full job description available on LinkedIn — link in bio.

📩 To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to info@tolclinic.com and include the position title in the subject line.

25/11/2025

🔸 Around the world, women and girls continue to face profound challenges: armed conflict, forced or voluntary migration, economic instability, discrimination, limited access to quality education and healthcare — and, painfully, violence.

🔸 Violence against women and girls happens everywhere — in public spaces, in private settings, online and offline.
Every woman and every girl is affected in a unique way — but no one is untouched.

🔸 On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we join a global call:
Stand with women and girls.
Stay attentive to the women in your community, your family, your neighbourhood, your workplace.
Your awareness can become protection. Your voice can spark change.

Together, we can change this reality.

24/11/2025

🌿When we wander into the dark alleys of this world of illusions, how far do we allow ourselves to drift away from who we are?

And in this inevitable journey through the world of dreams, what is the alarm that warns you that you’ve been intoxicated by the song of false senses?

When you realize you’ve grown distant from what is soul within you, what is the scent that brings you back?

What music, what words, what people are the threads that guide you back to the home within yourself?

Which relationships and experiences alienate you and steal you away from your path — and which ones awaken you?

There is no night so long or so dark that a thread of light cannot be found to bring us back to the heart…🌿

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20/11/2025

🤎 On this Black Consciousness Day, we honor the Black women who carry histories, families, and communities with strength and love — often without receiving the care they generously offer to the world.

🤎But today, we also widen the circle.
We honor Black men, whose resilience and tenderness often live in silence.
We honor Black children and adolescents, who deserve to grow in safety, possibility, and belonging.
We honor Black elders, guardians of memory, who keep culture and wisdom alive.

🤎May every stage of life — childhood, adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, aging — become a space of repair, equity, and respect.
May mental health, education, birth, work, and community care be guided by justice, dignity, and representation.

🤎And may every gesture of care be crossed by awareness, listening, and shared responsibility.

🤎Because Black lives do not just matter — they shape the fabric of our societies with beauty, depth, and generational power.

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18/11/2025

🌎 World Prematurity we Day is its a day to raise awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide.

🌱The premature birth of a baby can overwhelm the entire family. Babies who came into the world with a premature birth were exposed to the external environment before the proper time. This brings a number of challenges beyond the known health frailty.
Parental contact with these children can sometimes be very difficult because the baby is often quite irritated as they have more difficulty responding to stimuli.

🌱It is normal to find family members with significant levels of emotional distress after a premature birth. This emotional and affective overload can affect parental behavior and the adult’s relationship with the baby.

🌱The mother’s anxiety level is higher than normal during the preterm infant’s neonatal hospitalization period. This high anxiety has been linked, by researchers, to less effective maternal behaviors early in the baby’s life and the mother can fantasize that is been a bad mother or not enough mother for her baby.

🌱Some research has also been able to show that levels of depression or postpartum depression are often higher when a preterm birth occurs. This is because stress, demands and fears about the loss of the child or the unknown of the time that a baby can spent in intensive care can serve as a trigger for a depressive condition.
In addition to fears about the baby’s health, mothers who have had a premature birth can also feel very insecure.

🌱All these fears, uncertainties, insecurities and fantasies about the next few moments tend to overwhelm the whole family, especially the woman.

🌱Despite advances in social struggles, women still feel (and are considered by the family, in some cases) as the main responsible for the baby’s life, health and well-being. Of course, when we talk about a baby who is as fragile as a premature baby, this exaggerated demand will result in very great emotional suffering.

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Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist - Children and adults 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

17/11/2025

Amazing to be part of this initiative 🤎🤎🤎🤎🌱🌱🌱🌱

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Tuesday	10am - 8pm
Wednesday	10am - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Friday	10am - 6pm

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