1:1 Therapy
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A Space Just for You
Motherhood changes everything. While it can bring love and joy, it can also bring overwhelm, loneliness, and a sense of losing yourself.
You may feel like you “should” be coping, but inside you’re exhausted.
You might miss your old self and wonder who you are now.Or perhaps you’re holding so much for everyone else that there’s no space left for you.
Therapy offers you a place to pause, breathe, and be fully heard.
Why Therapy?
1:1 therapy gives you time that is yours alone, a space where:
You don’t have to pretend you’re okay.
Your feelings aren’t judged or dismissed.
You can explore your thoughts, struggles, and hopes with honesty.
It’s not about “fixing” you, because you are not broken. It’s about understanding your experience, rediscovering your voice as it is now, and reconnecting with yourself.
My Approach
I am a mother, and an IAHIP accredited psychotherapist trained in humanistic, person-centred therapy. Alongside this, I bring matrescence-informed insight from eight years of study into the identity shifts of motherhood.
Together, we might explore:
Postnatal distress and overwhelm
Identity loss and change through matrescence
The “good mother” myth and perfectionism
Guilt, shame, and self-silencing
Relationships, intimacy, and boundaries
Anxiety, low mood, or feeling “not yourself”
You set the pace. Some weeks you may simply need space to offload. Other weeks, we might look deeper at patterns, stories, and the shifts you want to make.
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Practical Details
Format: Weekly, 55-minute sessions (in-person or online)
Fee: €80 per session (If you have health insurance, some providers may cover therapy—please check with your insurer for details.)
Location: Skerries / Zoom option
Availability: Limited morning spaces.
To begin, we’ll arrange an initial session to see if we’re the right fit.
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An 8-Week Group for New Mothers
We’re often told motherhood should be all joy, love, and bliss. But what about the other side?
The loneliness. The overwhelm. The sense of losing yourself.
What if nothing is “wrong” with you?
What if these feelings are not signs of failure, but signs of transformation?
This is matrescence, the profound psychological, emotional, and social shift of becoming a mother. And you don’t have to go through it alone.
This Group is for You if…
You’re within the first year of motherhood.
You feel “different” but don’t yet have words for it.
You miss your old self and wonder who you are now.
You feel the pressure to be the “perfect mother” and it’s exhausting.
You long for honest conversation and connection with other mothers who truly get it.
Each week we gather in circle to pause, reflect, share, and learn.
🌿 Week 1 — Naming the Transition
A gentle introduction to matrescence, why early motherhood feels so intense, and what’s really happening beneath the surface. We arrive, breathe, and begin to settle together.
🌿 Week 2 — Loss, Longing & Letting Go
We explore the parts of yourself you miss, the unexpected grief, and the longing that can accompany new motherhood — without shame or judgment.
🌿 Week 3 — Myths, Expectations & “Good Mother” Stories
We unravel the cultural messages you inherited about motherhood, release impossible standards, and soften the grip of comparison.
🌿 Week 4 — Identity in Flux: “Who Am I Now?”
Why you don’t feel like yourself. Why identity feels shaken. How to meet this shift with compassion, curiosity, and grounding.
🌿 Week 5 — The Emotional Weight of Motherhood
Why your feelings are so strong, so tender, or so unpredictable right now, and why it all makes sense. We explore how exhaustion, responsibility, identity change, and unmet expectations shape the emotional landscape of early motherhood, and how to soften the shame around how you’re feeling
🌿 Week 6 — Mothering in the Real World
Relationships, invisible labour, mental load, and the expectations you’re carrying. We explore how to express needs without guilt.
🌿 Week 7 — Support, Community & Finding Your Voice
Why mothers were never meant to do this alone. We look at real support, real connection, and reclaiming your voice in motherhood.
🌿 Week 8 — Integration & Return
A soft gathering of everything you’ve learned. Naming what has shifted, what you want to carry forward, and honouring your becoming through a closing ritual.
Why Group Work?
There is something profoundly healing about sitting with other mothers and realising: it’s not just me.
In group you will:
Experience solidarity and shared understanding.
Learn from each other’s stories as much as your own.
Be witnessed, and witness others, in ways that deepen compassion and connection.
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Practical Details
Format: In-person, 1.5 hours each week
Duration: weeks
Time: 10:15-11:45
Location: Applewood Community Centre, Swords
Group size: Maximum of 10 mothers
Investment: €350 (payable upfront or other agreed upon payment plan)
Solidarity: One ‘pay what you can’ place available per group (contact me directly to know more)
Brave
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Motherhood may be the greatest love story of your life.
But it can also leave you feeling unseen, silenced, and unsure of who you are anymore.
Perhaps it’s been a year, or several, since you became a mother. The initial fog has lifted, but the disorientation lingers. You find yourself asking:
Is this all there is?
Where did I go?
What happened to the woman I used to be?This is the reckoning of matrescence.
And BRAVE is where you face it, together with others who feel the same.
This Programme is for You if…
You have been in motherhood at least a year.
You feel “lost” in the role of mother and long to reclaim your sense of self.
You’re exhausted by perfectionism, people-pleasing, or silencing your struggles.
You want to explore your identity beyond motherhood, but not without it.
You’re ready to do the deep, brave work of re-imagining yourself.
What We’ll Explore Together
Each week we step further into truth-telling, dismantling myths, and reclaiming selfhood.
Weeks 1–3: Facing the Silence
The mask of motherhood
Telling the truth about ambivalence, shame, and struggle
Giving language to what was never spoken
Weeks 4–6: Dismantling Myths
The good mother and the perfect mother
Intensive mothering ideology
How cultural scripts shape our lives
Weeks 7–9: Reclaiming the Self
Values work: who am I now?
Exploring anger, desire, and boundaries
Re-writing your maternal identity
Weeks 10–12: Integration & Courage
Building a new story of motherhood and self
Embodying bravery in everyday life
Closing ritual: honouring what has been lost, and what has been found
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Practical Details
Format: In-person, 1.5 hours each week
Duration: 12 weeks
Time: TBC
Location: TBC
Group size: Limited to 10 mothers
Investment: €900 (payable upfront; 3 instalments of €300 or other agreed upon payment plan)
Solidarity: One ‘pay what you can’ place available per group (contact me directly to know more)