Psychotherapy or talk therapy is a type of treatment that helps you to explore certain thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviours that are affecting your life negatively.

Talking through them, usually finding the root and what is maintaining them help you to explore, understand and change these thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviours.

There are many different therapy styles or approaches and it is important that you find the one that works for you, and that you feel that you have “clicked” with your therapist.

There really is no straightforward answer to this. The number of sessions will depend on what issues you are experiencing and ultimately on if you want to work on them with a short-term or long-term approach. This is something we can discuss in the first session. Once we have set certain therapy goals ,we will be reviewing them and checking how things are going for you from time to time.

Psychotherapy is totally confidential in almost all situations. Your personal information is held according to GDPR.

In some special circumstances, confidentiality must be broken when there is ethical and legal obligations that must be considered. For example, when the client is considered to be at risk or as the Child Protection Act.
All of these would be discuss in your first session and explained in detail in my contract.

Therapy sessions are held on a weekly basis. It is important to have consistency as this allows the therapeutic relationship to develop and you get a faster and better understanding of your situation.

Moreover, it has been proved that going to therapy on a weekly basis with consistency on the day and time is beneficial for the process.

In some cases, therapy can be done every two weeks.

Each therapist in Violet Psyhology has different fees. You can see them in each therapist’s profile, clicking here.

Practically speaking is the same as face-to-face therapy, but instead of meeting with us in person in our office, you connect with us on your computer, tablet or smartphone.

It is essential to have a private space where you feel that you can talk without the fear of other people hearing what you are saying. Also, it is important to have a good internet connection and it might be helpful to have headphones.

Feminist therapy is an integrative approach to psychotherapy that takes into consideration how different oppressions are interconnected and what impact are having in an individual’s mental health. It can look like focusing on social justice and the interlocking nature of oppression, incorporating race, gender identity, class, sexual orientation and other factors.

We do NOT work with a trans-exclusionary radical feminist approach.

Some of our therapists work exclusively with individual adults, while others work with couples or families. Check our therapist’s profiles here.

Affirming LGBTQIA+ therapy means that queer sexual orientation or gender identity are not seen as the “issue”, or “something that needs to be fixed”. Some of our therapists are queer themselves, so they know how it feels to live in a hetero-cis-normative world and how this can put certain expectations around our identity or our lives. Through this therapy, we will explore with you how your gender identity or sexual orientation has been responded to by society and how this can create traumatic experiences or shame our identities, having an impact on our mental health and wellbeing, or even creating internalised lgbtphobia or transphobia.

Working with affirming LGBTQIA+ is ideal for queer people struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity. Working with us would help you understand and accept who you truly are. Integrating the different parts of yourself that you are struggling with will make you feel more comfortable with yourself and will help you to lead a more fulfilling life.

Affirming LGBTQIA+ therapy is also ideal for queer people that are comfortable with their sexuality or gender identity but want to work with a therapist that identifies with the community, so they can truly understand you and you can explore the unique challenges you face in a safe space.

Neurodiversity-affirming therapists recognize that neurodivergence by itself is not a flaw or illness that needs to be “fixed” or corrected. Neurodivergent-affirming therapy focuses on embracing natural neurological differences and views any resulting disability as rooted in societal barriers, not as individual deficits.

Neurodivergent-affirming therapy encourages people to focus on who they really are. It also explores the challenges that neurodivergent individuals face as a result of living in a neurotypical society. Masking (attempting to hide neurodivergent traits or behaviours) has negative effects for the neurodivergent individual and can lead to burnout and to lose their sense of self. Some of the consequences of masking are anxiety, depression and loss of identity.

Examples of Neurodiversity may include: Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Other neurological conditions.

Risks of attending not neurodiversity-affirming therapy:

Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) is a type of “treatment” for autism and is not neurodiversity-affirming. This type of therapy is focused on making the autistic individual hide their autistic traits and appear more neurotypical.

For instance, ABA teaches autistic people to hide stimming, a self-regulatory behaviour, because it is “annoying” or “not normal”. ABA is a harmful “treatment” that teaches the individual to mask, and as we mentioned above, masking is highly stressful for autistic people and leads to burnout and mental health issues in the long-term. It can have devastating consequences for the autistic individual, such as developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

You have to check this directly with your insurance as they all have different policies. Usually, they cover sessions with registered professionals with different institutions like the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) or the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).