Alison Winfield

Alison Winfield I am based in Cork city (Donnybrook Hill, Douglas) and offer both in person and an online counselling service (Zoom or phone). I’m Alison Winfield.

I work as a psychotherapist. I offer a full counselling service both in person to people based in the Cork city area and also online - in the areas of stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, self esteem, relationships and trauma.

27/01/2026

And having some one to one sessions with a counsellor or psychotherapist can be extremely helpful - the sense of being really listened to by someone who is experienced, outside of the situation, offering a safe supportive space. I often recommend books, videos and podcasts to my clients, sources of....

27/01/2026

I’m focusing on How to Master Anxiety by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, who were the two co-founders of Human Givens.

17/11/2025

This is the second of two articles about scapegoating within the family and looks in more detail at the potentially catastrophic effects of scapegoating, and then at healing from scapegoating.

21/10/2025

This is a blog following my theme of “dysfunctional families” and looks at the phenomenon of scapegoating - where a single family member becomes the ‘scapegoat’, “black sheep” or “problem child.”

19/09/2025

This is my second blog which looks at the topic of generational trauma - this examines how generational trauma affects us. The concept of generational trauma is still in the early days of being understood and researched - but it is widely accepted that it occurs through biological, environmental, ps...

12/08/2025

Intergenerational, transgenerational or simply generational trauma refers to the transmission of trauma between generations of a family. Generational trauma occurs through biological, environmental, psychological, and social means.

14/07/2025

How does an individual get to the stage where he or she feels that the only option open to him/her, is cutting family ties? This is part of a series of blogs about dysfunctional families. What happens when an individual…

18/06/2025

This is the third in a series of articles about living in, surviving in and healing from the effects of a dysfunctional family. This focusses on the importance of setting boundaries in a dysfunctional family. First of all, it’s important…

15/05/2025

This is the second in a series of articles about families and focuses on the impact of a dysfunctional family. Nobody has a “perfect” childhood, but some families function in healthier ways than others. Broadly speaking, a dysfunctional family is characterised by unhealthy patterns of communicat...

18/04/2025

My next series of blogs look at one of the issues that brings many people to counselling - handling tricky relationships with families or with individual family members. This blog looks at functional and dysfunctional families.

19/03/2025

I’ve called this blog When an Apology isn’t Enough in order to show that whereas a good heartfelt apology can repair and make a relationship even stronger, that is, sadly, not always the case. What about more serious betrayals and situations where we have to accept that the other person may neve...

25/02/2025

When we lack the ability to say we’re sorry, minor offences eventually accumulate enough weight to sink our relationships. But the simple act of apologising can re-establish goodwill - even when we or the other person have committed much more serious offences, caused a lot of hurt. But an apology ...

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I’m Alison Winfield, Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Lecturer. I offer a full counselling service to people based in the Cork city area - in the areas of stress, anxiety, depression, self esteem, relationships and trauma. See https://corkpsychotherapyandtraumacentre.ie/ for more information or call 087 9934541