Celbridge Wellness

26/11/2025

✨ The Types of Counselling Offered at Celbridge and Lucan ✨

We provide a range of therapies from Art Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), to Schema Therapy and Anxiety Services, helping you explore and understand your innermost self.

Our affordable counselling sessions, starting from just €25, aim to make support accessible to everyone.

Additionally, we are pleased to offer Child Counselling and Play Therapy at our Lucan location. Trained child therapists use talking, play, drawing, and creative activities to help children express their feelings and develop coping skills. Sessions are gentle, structured, and tailored to your child’s age and personality.

Contact us today to learn more 🌸

21/11/2025

Worry often comes from our deep need for certainty.

When life feels unpredictable, the mind tries to protect us by imagining every “what if.”
But constant worry doesn’t keep us safe — it keeps us stuck.

Swipe through to explore gentle, practical steps to manage worry, build tolerance for uncertainty, and reconnect with the present moment. These tools can bring relief, but you don’t have to navigate it alone.

At Celbridge Wellness, our therapists offer a calm and supportive space to help you understand your worry patterns, develop healthier coping strategies, and create more ease in your daily life.

✨ If worry is taking up too much space in your mind, therapy can help you find clarity, grounding, and confidence again.

19/11/2025

Burnout isn’t just “being tired.” It’s your nervous system doing its best to keep you going long after it has run out of resources.

The constant pressure, overwhelm, and emotional exhaustion you feel are not signs of weakness — they’re signs that your body and mind need care, not criticism.

When stress becomes chronic, your system can get stuck in survival mode.
You might notice:
• feeling tired no matter how much you rest
• difficulty concentrating or making decisions
• emotional numbness
• irritability or overwhelm
• physical tension, headaches, or stomach issues
• feeling disconnected from yourself or others

These experiences are real, valid, and incredibly common — especially when life hasn’t given you the chance to pause.

Therapy can help you understand what’s happening beneath the exhaustion.
It gives you space to slow down, regulate your nervous system, explore the root causes of burnout, and develop healthier patterns of coping. You don’t have to figure it out alone.

If you’re feeling depleted, stuck, or simply not like yourself, reaching out is a powerful first step.
At Celbridge Wellness, our therapists offer a calm, supportive space to help you reconnect with your energy, clarity, and sense of self. ✨

08/11/2025

Counselling for Children (Under 10)

We’re delighted to now offer a small number of counselling spaces for children under 10 with our child therapy team.

These sessions are gentle and play-based, supporting children who might be:
Feeling anxious or overwhelmed
Struggling with friendships or school
Finding it hard to manage emotions

Each session is focused on helping your child feel safe, confident, and supported as they work through life’s ups and downs.

🧒 For: Children under 10
📍 Location: Celbridge & Lucan Wellness
📅 Availability: Limited

If you think your child could benefit, or if you’d like to find out more, send us an email to contact@celbridgewellness.ie or contact@lucanwellness.ie

Have any questions - ask us in the comments below♥️

26/10/2025

🧠 Understanding Core Beliefs 🧠

Ever wonder why you feel like you’re just not enough — even when everything seems to be going well?

Maybe there’s no clear reason. You strive, you succeed, you care for others... and still, that quiet inner voice questions you:

“Do you really deserve that?”

This could be a core belief at work — often hidden, but deeply powerful. These beliefs shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. They can drive us to overachieve, people-please, or constantly second-guess ourselves.

✨ The good news? You can bring them into the light. You can change the story.

If this resonates with you, know that you’re not alone — and support is available.

💬 Let’s explore what’s beneath the surface — together.

21/10/2025

“I feel like I don’t fit in anywhere.”
That quiet thought sits behind so much loneliness.

Some people feel left out because everyone else seems more confident, attractive, or interesting.

Others feel like there’s an invisible wall between them and the rest of the world.

Either way, the result is the same — loneliness.

You might avoid social situations because they feel exhausting… or because anxiety whispers,
“I’ll say something stupid.”
“They’ll see right through me.”

But it’s not a lack of social skills . It’s fear: fear of judgment, rejection, or not being enough.

The truth?
You’re not the outsider you imagine yourself to be.
You just learned, somewhere along the way, to doubt your place in the world.

🌿 Therapy can help you find your way back into connection — not by changing who you are, but by helping you see that you already belong.

💬 If this feels familiar, reach out. You don’t have to keep living on the edge of connection.

18/10/2025

18/10/2025

IACP Chief Executive Officer Lisa Molloy will feature on Newstalk's Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna this Sunday morning 19th October on the topic of state regulation of the counselling and psychotherapy professions.

🎤 Listen live from 8:00 – 9:00 on newstalk.com

🎧 Tune in or listen back here: https://www.newstalk.com/shows/alive-kicking-claire-mckenna-834302

📸 Pictured is Lisa Molloy with Clare McKenna, host of the Alive and Kicking programme on Newstalk.








CORU - Regulating Health and Social Care Professionals
International Association for Counselling
Irish Council for Psychotherapy
Irish Association of Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy - IAHIP

17/10/2025

Attachment & Loveless Love

Most of us want closeness, love, and emotional safety, yet many of us end up in relationships that feel empty or insecure.

Why? John Bowlby says it is because our early attachment wounds shape how we love. Here are three key ones to know: Anxious, Avoidant, and Secure.

This can lead you to feel unloved, unseen, or stuck in bad relational cycles. But here’s the truth: your attachment style is not your fate.

Through therapy, healing is possible. You can move toward a more secure way of relating — one rooted in mutual respect, vulnerability, and real love.

DM to schedule a session🌸

15/10/2025

Many people carry a hidden belief that they are somehow flawed — not good enough, not lovable, not worthy of respect.

It’s a painful, private kind of shame. You hide it well, even from yourself.
You might look confident, capable, even successful — but deep down, there’s a fear that if people really knew you, they’d turn away. This belief often begins in childhood, through criticism or rejection, and grows quietly over the years.

It can leave you feeling vaguely unhappy, never quite at peace with yourself.

Therapy helps you see this lie for what it is — and replace it with the truth:
you are not broken; you’ve simply learned to see yourself through someone else’s unkind eyes.

If this feels familiar, you don’t have to keep it hidden. Talking helps.

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12/10/2025

“When your life is built around keeping everyone else happy, you slowly disappear.”

Many people live under the quiet weight of people-pleasing — the belief that their job is to keep everyone else happy: parents, partners, bosses, even strangers.

You get used to asking, “What will they think?” instead of “What do I need?”
Over time, it can leave you feeling trapped, resentful, and unsure who you really are. Therapy helps you reclaim your freedom — to rediscover your own voice, your own wants, your own life.

If this resonates, you’re not alone. Talking can help you find a way out of that pattern.