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Orla Cogill, BABCP Accredited
👥Psychotherapist (CBT, ACT, EMDR)
🧠 Neurodivergent affirming, ADHD therapist
🐴 Equine Facilitated Services
📍In person Wicklow, Ireland
🌐 Online remote services Ireland & UK
https://linktr.ee/cogspsychotherapy

23/12/2025

If you want nothing, you’ll feel nothing. But the moment you decide to care deeply, anxiety is going to knock on your door. That’s not failure—that’s the cost of being alive to what matters. Anxiety means you’re in the arena.

✨ Logging off for 2025.I'm looking forward to the time off, but also to some great things in store for next year.🌀 In 20...
23/12/2025

✨ Logging off for 2025.
I'm looking forward to the time off, but also to some great things in store for next year.

🌀 In 2026 I will be working towards EMDR accreditation, which means that EMDR will become a more central part of the therapy that I offer, alongside CBT and ACT, to those who are interested in this. I’m looking forward to supporting clients in deeper, body-based ways, that go beyond thinking and talking.

🐴 Equine assisted therapy is growing in the plans for 2026, and I hope to be sharing this side of things a lot more. Equine assisted work is an alternative approach, which is also more body-based, and could be just the thing you are looking for if you have been thinking about therapy, but aren’t sure if traditional ways are for you, or haven’t been for you in the past. If you are curious about how equine assisted therapy works, please get in touch to discuss this further.

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Orla 💛

Holiday food comments can be tough You are allowed to go at your pace, eat what feels manageable right now and in ways t...
16/12/2025

Holiday food comments can be tough

You are allowed to go at your pace, eat what feels manageable right now and in ways that support you, which might mean doing different to what others are doing

Having a few responses ready can be helpful, without having to justify yourself. But if this doesn't feel ok, you can step away, or change the topic.

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24/11/2025

A little bit about me.

📖 Accredited CBT therapist, and pre-accredited EMDR practitioner.
🧠 ADHDer.
📍I work in-person in Avoca, Co. Wicklow and online internationally.
✨ Alongside my private practice, I work in an eating disorder clinic. This is a special area of interest to me, as well as working with trauma, self-esteem difficulties, and perfectionsm.
💚💛 Nature, animals, & a new hobby of the week.

17/11/2025

Cold, dark, wet.
These are conditions that push us indoors more at this time of year. I do think it's important to lean into the change in season by allowing ourselves to rest more, or engage with indoor hobbies. ☕🧙‍♀️🎨

However, there is something powerful in also embracing nature and its elements. Horses offer a wonderful space for us to do this. Seeing them play, roll in the mud, rest in the moments of sun.

If equine assisted sessions interest you, get in touch to find out more. Set in the beautiful countryside of Avoca, Co. Wicklow. Where we can ground outdoors, move, and take shelter in the barn or therapy room, warm up with a hot drink, and check-in.

14/11/2025

If the "drop a dress size before Christmas" posts are getting to you, know that you are not alone. This is a hard season for anyone with a history of food struggles. We & our bodies deserve care & compassion, rather than control and scrutiny.

I chose this video because I love how horses seek out what supports them. I've seen them all eating the gorse bushes this week, which they did less of in spring and summer. They don't question it, feel they have to earn it, or compare to the horse beside them.

Care for yourself by keeping with meal routines, communicating needs, planning ahead for social events, engaging in hobbies, creativity, reach out for support.
Care for others by being mindful of comments around food/calories/exercise, which may be triggering to someone else.
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04/11/2025

I understand what it's like to live in your head; analysing, planning, replaying. The exhaustion that comes with it. 🫨

The more work I do to understand this in myself (a journey that is ongoing and takes time), I am more aware of it happening too with clients, and when we are both getting pulled in my the story of the thoughts in session.

In therapy, we can learn how to respond differently to our thoughts. And when it feels right, we can start to explore further what might be underneath this overthinking. The feelings, and experiences that may have been pushed away.

Therapy with me allows you to start to explore this in a slow and safe way. To bring awareness to it in the room. Starting to allow these feelings to have a space.

In a recent session, we noticed the worry, self-criticism, and analysing coming in. We allowed for the feelings to be there too, and after some time the client noticed that the intensity eased. This isn't always the case, but often those feelings need a place too.

EMDR informs a lot of this practice and I find it beneficial because it gets us out of our head and into our body.

Orla 💛
info@cogspsychotherapy.com

This is a classic...you walk into the shop, no list, no intention, and all of a sudden everything appears exciting/shiny...
01/11/2025

This is a classic...you walk into the shop, no list, no intention, and all of a sudden everything appears exciting/shiny/needed, and you get spat out the other side wondering how!

This happened to me today, I left with a few bits, and a few regrets 🥲.

Plenty of tips and tricks out there to help, but as always I find compassion the most needed, because this.is.going.to.happen.again.

⛰️ After that I was hiking up a mountain and soon moved on from it. Another reason movement is a big help for the busy ADHD brain & rumination cycles!!!

31/10/2025

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Brains like to solve mysteries... except when the mystery is our own feelings. This can feel like the real scare.
But these feelings are often messengers that we can learn from if we give them space.

Disclaimer: this is a light-hearted take. Managing emotions and fears can feel intense and learning to sit with discomfort is something best done slowly and sometimes with the support of a trained professional.

Why wait until January to set goals? 🌾 The theme of this in-person adult mindfulness group will be values. This is inspi...
28/10/2025

Why wait until January to set goals?
🌾 The theme of this in-person adult mindfulness group will be values. This is inspired by ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
✨ It will focus on getting clear on what's important to you and setting goals in line with these values for the final 2 months of the year.
✨ As well as some mindfulness practice that will help you feel more grounded coming into this busy time of the year.
🌛 Weather & interest depending, we may incorporate grounding in nature, and horse observation.

Sign up via the link: https://www.cogspsychotherapy.com/service-page/ending-the-year-with-intention?referral=service_list_widget
or email: info@cogspsychotherapy.com

📍Avoca, Co. Wicklow
🗓️ 14 Nov, 10am

💭 Uncertainty and an intolerance to it, comes up often with clients in the therapy room. Starting to expose ourselves to...
21/10/2025

💭 Uncertainty and an intolerance to it, comes up often with clients in the therapy room. Starting to expose ourselves to more uncertainty, can change the way we think and feel about the unknown.

📝 And taking my own advice on this: on proof reading this post, I see a spelling mistake in slide 2 (and probably elsewhere), but I'm not going to make that slide again.

"What if people judge me, think I'm lazy". Maybe, but is it worth the time & effort making it perfect, or just not posting it at all?

This worry comes from a place of protection, to keep us safe from the unknown/judgement/anxiety. But the more we engage with those behaviours, the more we believe we cannot cope, and the cycle gets reinforced.

I have always loved Autumn 🍂. The just right temperature that pleases the senses, crunchy leaves, warm drinks, cosy flee...
22/09/2025

I have always loved Autumn 🍂. The just right temperature that pleases the senses, crunchy leaves, warm drinks, cosy fleeces... But the shift to equal hours of day and night can be a challenge for many people, myself included.

These next few weeks I intend to focus on little moments of gratitude, going slower, changing the pace ahead of winter, and trying to take the perfectionistic pressure off in any little ways that I can. 🧡

How do you feel about the change in season? What might you be ready to let go of?

Orla

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