Karine Yuric-Buttimer - Counselling and Psychotherapy

29/09/2025

Samara Centre Clonakilty a place where you can learn
To nurture your inner child , offer that child a different parenting experience .

23/08/2025

18/05/2025

27/04/2025

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Domestic Violence Support Worker x 2: www.activelink.ie/node/115188

Psychotherapist - Sexual Violence Service: www.activelink.ie/node/115189

11/09/2024

Starting therapy can be daunting and we often want to know where we are headed before we even start. It is pretty normal to feel unsure . For those who have taken that first step already this may be for you. 🍁🍂

25/05/2024

Another round of feel-good singing 🌻
Anyone can join, together we sound amazing.

24/12/2023

The goal of parts work therapies is to realize and integrate the disowned emotions or traumatic memories held by exiled parts of the self. This helps take personal responsibility now to repair ruptures from events that we experienced in the past.

You can think of this as learning to travel through time and revisit events from time in our lives that remain unresolved. For example, a series of events brought back memories from when I was 15. So, I time traveled in my mind back to 1987. Since this was one of the tougher years of my life, a time when I felt as though I was drowning in a sea of shame, I took this journey with the wise counsel of another therapist. I touched into the pain held by that younger me. I finally was able to grieve and let go of the heavy weights that I carried for over 30 years in my body and mind.

Little did I know then, that I would rise up again, like a Phoenix. I didn’t know how many important lessons would be learned or that I would find courage. I didn’t know that I would grow up and find beauty in myself. And, that my inner work would also allow me to guide others toward their inner light. As a time traveler, now I know that life had so much more in store for me. That I would find love. That I was always worthy of love.

I love this fitting quote by Thich Nhat Hanh,

“With practice, we can see that our wounded child is not only us. Our wounded child may represent several generations. Our mother may have suffered throughout her life. Our father may have suffered. Perhaps our parents weren’t able to look after the wounded child in themselves. So when we’re embracing the wounded child in us, we are embracing all the wounded child in our past generations. This practice is not a practice for ourselves alone, but for numberless generations of ancestors and descendants.”

02/01/2023

Interestingly when asking clients what would “their perfect “look like ..there s often no real visual … at best a vague sense of what it might feel like when /if they get there… meanwhile they continue on this anxious pursuit for the unattainable unimaginable “thing” and find hard to press pause and stay in the here and now …in connection with others . Perfectionism a false friend ?