Bernadette McFadden Counselling Services

22/10/2025

27/09/2025

Topic: Drug-Induced Psychosis

This is a reminder about the next In-Focus webinar, which promises to be an insightful and important session for anyone working with young people or those affected by substance use.

📆 Date: Tuesday, 30 September 2025
🕑 Time: 12:30
🎙 Topic: Drug-Induced Psychosis
👤 Speaker: Dr Bobby Smyth – Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

About the Speaker:
Dr Bobby Smyth is one of Ireland’s leading experts in youth addiction and substance misuse. With extensive frontline clinical experience, he combines practice with research, advocacy, and policy development, making him uniquely placed to discuss this critical topic.

This webinar will explore the causes, presentation, and management of drug-induced psychosis, with a particular focus on young people. It will offer practical insights and evidence-based approaches relevant to clinicians, support workers, and anyone working in the drug and alcohol sector.

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qJzSgNv6R927cCVkZuIuow #/registration

📢 Open to all — please share widely!

16/09/2025

Wonderful work of J.Mike Fields

1. "The child within… doesn't disappear."

You can banish your emotions, but you cannot erase them. The child you left behind, the one who carried grief, anger, joy, or need, still lives in you. They hide in the shadows, waiting for your return.

2. "They grow into your fears, addictions, obsessions, and numbness."

Abandoned parts don't vanish; they adapt. They show up as anxiety, cravings, overwork, compulsions, or flatness. These aren't random symptoms; they're the cries of the exiled child still yearning for love and recognition.

3. "They are not your enemy."

The parts you resist, your fear, your addiction, your avoidance, are not here to destroy you. They're here to get your attention. They are signs, not threats.

4. "They are your key to aliveness, love, and Self."

The very child you abandoned carries the missing piece of your wholeness. When you return to them, witness, nurture, and integrate, you unlock vitality, intimacy, and freedom. The doorway to the Self is guarded by the parts you've feared most.

1. "The child within… doesn't disappear."

You can banish your emotions, but you cannot erase them. The child you left behind, the one who carried grief, anger, joy, or need, still lives in you. They hide in the shadows, waiting for your return.

2. "They grow into your fears, addictions, obsessions, and numbness."

Abandoned parts don't vanish; they adapt. They show up as anxiety, cravings, overwork, compulsions, or flatness. These aren't random symptoms; they're the cries of the exiled child still yearning for love and recognition.

3. "They are not your enemy."

The parts you resist, your fear, your addiction, your avoidance, are not here to destroy you. They're here to get your attention. They are signs, not threats.

4. "They are your key to aliveness, love, and Self."

The very child you abandoned carries the missing piece of your wholeness. When you return to them, witness, nurture, and integrate, you unlock vitality, intimacy, and freedom. The doorway to the Self is guarded by the parts you've feared most"

12/09/2025

27/08/2025

'The highest and most decisive experience of all is to be alone with one’s own self, or whatever else one chooses to call the objectivity of the psyche. The patient must be alone if he is to find out what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. Only this experience can give him an indestructible foundation. .' Carl G Jung (Psychology and Alchemy)
Carl Jung and Depth Psychology

22/08/2025

Looking forward to facilitating and being part of the team on this great course. Bringing awareness and healing through education and training 💚

The Substance Use Issues and Community Work Course 2025-26 QQ1 L5 evening course is now open for application. Deadline to apply is Friday 29th August 2025.
This 20 week evening course is delivered in collaboration with Cork College of FET - Morrison's Island Campus Night College, funded by the HSE South West and is coordinated by Cork City Partnership.
• About the Course
The Substance Use Issues & Community Work Course 2025 / 26 is designed to promote good practice among those who work either in a paid or voluntary capacity with young people and communities who are affected by various issues.
The components: Understanding Community Development and Substance Use Issues should support the ability of learners to work safely and effectively in youth and / or community work settings.
For all relevant course information including entry requirements and to download an application form to go: https://corkcitypartnership.ie/2025/05/the-substance-use-issues-and-community-work-course-25-26-qq1-level-5-evening-course/

17/08/2025

No one wants to talk about shame, says Brené Brown — but here’s how confronting it helps us find our way back to each other: http://t.ted.com/HOqUuNE

13/08/2025

“The deepest listening is presence, is consciousness itself. It is space, an open heart, compassion and a deep receiving of someone.”
— THOMAS HÜBL

A self-paced course from Thomas Hübl and Terry Real

11/08/2025

💚

21/07/2025

Beautiful 💚