Beacon Counselling
Counselling & Psychotherapy
We are highly qualified and experienced counsellors who are committed to consistently providing the very best counselling and support for all our clients, adults, adolescents and children.
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Where we are
Clinic Address:
32 Castle Street
Dalkey
Co. Dublin
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HIGHLY QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED COUNSELLORS
Honesty, openness, understanding & compassion
HIGHLY QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED COUNSELLORS
Beacon Counselling emphasises on honesty, openness, understanding and compassion, in the context of a respectful and caring therapeutic relationship which supports each person to be who he or she truly is, rather than who others expect them to be.
We work with clients with a wide range of issues such as anxiety and panic attacks, depression, domestic abuse, family difficulties, mental health issues, bullying, LGBT concerns, loss and grief, personal development, relationship issues and self-esteem. We also work with individuals who may not be able to identify any particular issue but are feeling generally overwhelmed or unable to cope.
About Beacon Counselling
We offer Counselling and Psychotherapy services to individual clients, couples, family and non-family groups, adolescents and children in respect of an extensive range of personal life problems.
Honesty, openness, understanding & compassion
HIGHLY QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED COUNSELLORS
Beacon Counselling emphasises on honesty, openness, understanding and compassion, in the context of a respectful and caring therapeutic relationship which supports each person to be who he or she truly is, rather than who others expect them to be.
We work with clients with a wide range of issues such as anxiety and panic attacks, depression, domestic abuse, family difficulties, mental health issues, bullying, LGBT concerns, loss and grief, personal development, relationship issues and self-esteem. We also work with individuals who may not be able to identify any particular issue but are feeling generally overwhelmed or unable to cope.
Steve Thomas
Psychotherapist (HIP)
Steve has been working as a fully qualified psychotherapist for ten years. He trained with Tivoli Institute and later with the Yungisn centre. He holds a a degree in humanistic and integrative approach psychotherapy which includes both gestalt and shadow work
He prefers working in general therapy which allows for all issues to present the therapeutic environment. Most common being anxiety and depression.
Loredana Chiuaru
Psychotherapist (MIACP)
Loredana has many years of practice and a broad experience of working with adults and young people.
Loredana holds an honours degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy from DBS, and a MSc in Loss and Bereavement from RCSI and the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Loredana adopts a humanistic and integrative approach in her work. Whether it is solution focused and short term work or long term psychotherapy, Loredana's aim is to empower, and to assist her clients towards self-actualization.
Loredana's area of expertise is loss and bereavement, and specifically suicide bereavement
Jennie Gaynor
Psychotherapist (MIACP)
Jennie is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist who helps people deal with a wide range of needs and issues. In addition to private practice, Jennie is working for Pieta House, specialising in crisis intervention for those self harming or with suicidal tendencies.
She believes in providing a space where individuals can feel understood, accepted and safe to explore their feelings in a confidential setting. Jennie aims to help individuals develop new thinking patterns and coping skills that can bring positive change to their lives.
Jennie is also a Reiki Master and a Breathwork Coach hosting regular breathwork and meditation classes in Bray.
Online Only
Psychotherapist & Counsellor BA (MIACP)
Suzanne Ennis
With over a decade of experience in psychotherapy and counselling, I am dedicated to supporting individuals through life's challenges with a compassionate and evidence-based approach. As an accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP), I offer both face-to-face and online therapy, ensuring accessible and flexible mental health care.
My expertise includes working with a wide range of emotional and psychological concerns, and I work in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, an effective approach for trauma recovery, CBT and I work in a Humanistic person centred and integrative manner. I also facilitate support groups, providing a safe space for individuals to share experiences and develop coping strategies.
Whether you're seeking one-to-one therapy or the support of a group setting, my goal is to provide a space where healing and growth can take place.
Addiction Counsellor & Creative Arts Psychotherapist
Layla Shepherd
Layla is a highly experienced Creative Arts Psychotherapist and Addiction Counsellor, with over a decade of practice in both private and public settings. She gained her Degree in Addiction Counselling through UCD in 2012 and went on to study Counselling and Art Psychotherapy with Dublin Art Therapy College. Specialising in innovative therapeutic approaches, Layla has dedicated her career to supporting individuals through creative expression and a variety of therapeutic practices. Currently, she applies her extensive expertise as a Counseller with Merchants Quay Ireland’s women’s services in Dublin City Centre, where she continues to make a significant impact in the field of addiction recovery and mental health. Layla’s compassionate and client-cantered approach has earned her a reputation for excellence in fostering resilience and promoting well-being among her clients.
Claire Hoggins
Psychotherapist & Counsellor (IHIP)
Clare is a qualified psychotherapist and a certified member of the Irish Association of Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP). She holds a M.Sc. in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre (D.C.T.C). Clare works from a person-centred, integrative and humanistic modality. She strives to provide a compassionate, confidential, non-judgmental safe space in which to develop a therapeutic relationship built on empathy and acceptance, to support people who are in pain or crisis and those who are searching for meaning and purpose in life. Honouring the uniqueness of each person, their inner wisdom and dignity, Clare endeavours to empower clients to deepen their understanding of themselves to enable healing and growth.
Clare has experience in supporting adults living with difficulties including anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, grief and loss.
Our Services
As fully trained counsellors and psychotherapists, we will provide help by working with you on your difficulties and assist you in your decisions towards resolving them.
Individual Counselling
Non-judgemental, safe and confidential space
Our counselling services allows you to explore problems and issues you may be experiencing. We will support you and work with you towards overcoming the difficulties you are facing in your life.
Our Services
As fully trained counsellors and psychotherapists, we will provide help by working with you on your difficulties and assist you in your decisions towards resolving them.
Jennie Gaynor - MIACP
Clinical Director
Jennie is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist who helps people deal with a wide range of needs and issues. In addition to private practice, Jennie is working for Pieta House, specialising in crisis intervention for those self harming or with suicidal tendencies.
She believes in providing a space where individuals can feel understood, accepted and safe to explore their feelings in a confidential setting. Jennie aims to help individuals develop new thinking patterns and coping skills that can bring positive change to their lives.
Nash Zvikaramba - MIACP
Clinical Director
As a qualified and accredited psychotherapist, who specialises in adolescent therapy, Nash respects the uniqueness of each family; values and beliefs. She is passionate about enriching and supporting the adolescents and their parents when presented with today's challenges.
Among other experiences Nash worked in Accord providing relationship and couples counselling for more than 5 years. She also currently works in Pieta house as a Clinical Assessor, and Psychotherapist, supporting both adolescents and adults presenting with suicidal ideation and self harming difficulties.
Loredana Chiuaru - MIACP
Psychotherapist
Loredana has many years of practice and a broad experience of working with adults and young people.
Loredana holds an honours degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy from DBS, and a MSc in Loss and Bereavement from RCSI and the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Loredana adopts a humanistic and integrative approach in her work. Whether it is solution focused and short term work or long term psychotherapy, Loredana's aim is to empower, and to assist her clients towards self-actualization.
Loredana's area of expertise is loss and bereavement, and specifically suicide bereavement
Honesty, openness, understanding & compassion
HIGHLY QUALIFIED & EXPERIENCED COUNSELLORS
Beacon Counselling emphasises on honesty, openness, understanding and compassion, in the context of a respectful and caring therapeutic relationship which supports each person to be who he or she truly is, rather than who others expect them to be.
We work with clients with a wide range of issues such as anxiety and panic attacks, depression, domestic abuse, family difficulties, mental health issues, bullying, LGBT concerns, loss and grief, personal development, relationship issues and self-esteem. We also work with individuals who may not be able to identify any particular issue but are feeling generally overwhelmed or unable to cope.
About Beacon Counselling
We offer Counselling and Psychotherapy services to individual clients, couples, family and non-family groups, adolescents and children in respect of an extensive range of personal life problems.
CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
CBT is a type of talking treatment that focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your feelings and behaviour, and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems.
Our Services
As fully trained counsellors and psychotherapists, we will provide help by working with you on your difficulties and assist you in your decisions towards resolving them.
About Beacon Counselling
We offer Counselling and Psychotherapy services to individual clients, couples, family and non-family groups, adolescents and children in respect of an extensive range of personal life problems.
Family Counselling
Guidance and therapy for families facing challenges to enhance relationships.
Personal Development
Encouraging personal growth and self-improvement through tailored sessions.
Our Therapists
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Bereavement is a natural process which most people adjust to in time with adaptation to their loss. However, some people may experience unrelenting sadness, distress and difficulties in daily functioning where bereavement counselling can help restore functioning, wellbeing and reconstruct meaning. Research shows that having a place to tell your story,
being listened to, normalising, instilling hope and having
unhealthy thoughts challenged can help grieving people move forward in an integrated way,
embracing their past, living in the present and having a hope for the future.
Bereavement & Loss
There are a unique set of complications that arise with step-family relationships. Our therapist will help parents and children who are about to embrace a step family unit or who find themselves trapped in the many complexities that arise from relationships within the step family unit, learning to be step-family-smart.
Blended Families
Blended Families are becoming more widespread in Ireland.
For example, individuals residing in rural or remote areas or who are for whatever reason physically unable to attend face-to-face sessions. Online counselling, while not suitable for users who are at immediate risk of harming themselves, can be effective for people affected by stress, bereavement, relationship difficulties, and less severe forms of anxiety and depression. At present we offer therapy sessions using Skype or over the phone.
Online Therapy
Online therapy overcomes barriers that may preclude others from seeking therapy.
The therapist will use language and play to observe, assess, help and treat children from as young as toddlers up to adolescents who are experiencing behavioural, emotional, social and psychological difficulties. Careful observation and analysis during the therapy sessions allows the therapist to provide the helpful guidance and structure necessary to resolve a child’s problems and restore healthy growth and development.
Therapy for Children
What counselling and psychotherapy aims to do for adults, child psychotherapy and play therapy aims to do for children.
CBT is a type of talking treatment that focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your feelings and behaviour, and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems.
CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
When adolescents experience emotions or engage in behaviors that interfere with their happiness and ability to thrive, they may benefit from meeting with a mental health professional such as a therapist or counselor. Parents and adolescents often attend therapy sessions together, as therapy can be a safe space in which to address the thoughts, feelings, and emotions experienced by all members.
Adolescent Therapy
Are you a teenager who is struggling?
Our counsellors provide a caring and supportive environment to help you find a way through any difficulties you may be facing in your relationship.
Couples Counsellling
It doesn't matter if you're married, living together, single, gay or straight - we're here to help you.
Crisis intervention offers immediate, short-term help to individuals who experience an event that produces emotional, mental, physical, and behavioral distress or problems that may result in self harm or suicidal thoughts.
Crisis Intervention
Reduce the intensity of an individual's emotional, mental, physical and behavioral reactions to a crisis.
Our counselling services allows you to explore problems and issues you may be experiencing. We will support you and work with you towards overcoming the difficulties you are facing in your life.
Individual Counselling
Non-judgemental, safe and confidential space
Our Services
As fully trained counsellors and psychotherapists, we will provide help by working with you on your difficulties and assist you in your decisions towards resolving them.
Our Therapists
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Clare is a qualified psychotherapist and a certified member of the Irish Association of Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP). She holds a M.Sc. in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre (D.C.T.C). Clare works from a person-centred, integrative and humanistic modality. She strives to provide a compassionate, confidential, non-judgmental safe space in which to develop a therapeutic relationship built on empathy and acceptance, to support people who are in pain or crisis and those who are searching for meaning and purpose in life. Honouring the uniqueness of each person, their inner wisdom and dignity, Clare endeavours to empower clients to deepen their understanding of themselves to enable healing and growth.
Clare has experience in supporting adults living with difficulties including anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, grief and loss.
Claire Hoggins
Psychotherapist & Counsellor (IHIP)
Layla is a highly experienced Creative Arts Psychotherapist and Addiction Counsellor, with over a decade of practice in both private and public settings. She gained her Degree in Addiction Counselling through UCD in 2012 and went on to study Counselling and Art Psychotherapy with Dublin Art Therapy College. Specialising in innovative therapeutic approaches, Layla has dedicated her career to supporting individuals through creative expression and a variety of therapeutic practices. Currently, she applies her extensive expertise as a Counseller with Merchants Quay Ireland’s women’s services in Dublin City Centre, where she continues to make a significant impact in the field of addiction recovery and mental health. Layla’s compassionate and client-cantered approach has earned her a reputation for excellence in fostering resilience and promoting well-being among her clients.
Layla Shepherd
Addiction Counsellor & Creative Arts Psychotherapist
With over a decade of experience in psychotherapy and counselling, I am dedicated to supporting individuals through life's challenges with a compassionate and evidence-based approach. As an accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP), I offer both face-to-face and online therapy, ensuring accessible and flexible mental health care.
My expertise includes working with a wide range of emotional and psychological concerns, and I work in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, an effective approach for trauma recovery, CBT and I work in a Humanistic person centred and integrative manner. I also facilitate support groups, providing a safe space for individuals to share experiences and develop coping strategies.
Whether you're seeking one-to-one therapy or the support of a group setting, my goal is to provide a space where healing and growth can take place.
Suzanne Ennis
Psychotherapist & Counsellor BA (MIACP)
Jennie is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist who helps people deal with a wide range of needs and issues. In addition to private practice, Jennie is working for Pieta House, specialising in crisis intervention for those self harming or with suicidal tendencies.
She believes in providing a space where individuals can feel understood, accepted and safe to explore their feelings in a confidential setting. Jennie aims to help individuals develop new thinking patterns and coping skills that can bring positive change to their lives.
Jennie is also a Reiki Master and a Breathwork Coach hosting regular breathwork and meditation classes in Bray.
Jenny Gaynor
Psychotherapist (MIACP) Online Only
Loredana has many years of practice and a broad experience of working with adults and young people.
Loredana holds an honours degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy from DBS, and a MSc in Loss and Bereavement from RCSI and the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Loredana adopts a humanistic and integrative approach in her work. Whether it is solution focused and short term work or long term psychotherapy, Loredana's aim is to empower, and to assist her clients towards self-actualization.
Loredana's area of expertise is loss and bereavement, and specifically suicide bereavement
Loredana Chiuaru
Psychotherapist (MIACP)
Steve has been working as a fully qualified psychotherapist for ten years. He trained with Tivoli Institute and later with the Yungisn centre. He holds a a degree in humanistic and integrative approach psychotherapy which includes both gestalt and shadow work
He prefers working in general therapy which allows for all issues to present the therapeutic environment. Most common being anxiety and depression.
Steve Thomas
Psychotherapist (HIPP)
Compassionate and understanding. Helped me overcome my struggles.
Testimonials
Professional and caring. Highly recommend their services.
Success Stories
Empathetic and skilled therapists. Grateful for their help.
Client Feedback
Life-saving counselling. Feel much stronger and positive now.
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32 Castle Street
Dalkey
Co. Dublin