My name is Damian Morgan. I am a counsellor and psychotherapist based in Glenbeigh, County Kerry. I graduated with both a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a BSc Hons Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Cork Counselling Services Training Institute (CCSTI), validated by Coventry University. I hold a certificate in Couples Counselling Training from the Institute of Couples Therapy. I also hold a Certificate in Coaching Skills through ACSTH International Coach Federation. I am a member of the training team at Cork Counselling Services Training Institute and I hold pre-accredited membership of the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Counselling and Psychotherapy are forms of therapy that offer support for people that are experiencing difficulties in their life.
Counselling works with clients in overcoming current issues that may be preventing them from engaging and enjoying their lives and is usually a short term process.
Psychotherapy focuses on assisting the client in understanding their lives in a more profound way and tends to be a longer process than counselling. Psychotherapy can involve exploring the clients current and past experiences as well as their childhood relationships.
The aims of both Counselling and Psychotherapy are to support the client in improving their quality of life. This is done by helping the client to self-regulate themselves while getting to a place of balance and stability. The aim is to empower the individual by freeing them from mal-adaptive behaviours that have developed over time and are hindering their capacity to live a full life.
I believe that every human being has an innate desire to become the best person that they can be. We have an inbuilt resilience and a wisdom that when activated can create healing and growth. My aim as a counsellor/psychotherapist is to support my clients in their growth and to provide them with the tools in which to empower themselves to reach their goals.
I work with both individuals and couples. The duration of a session is one hour. The sessions can take place either face to face at my comfortable therapy room in Glenbeigh, Co Kerry or through an on-line platform. The length of the therapeutic process can vary depending on the client’s needs and what unfolds during therapy.
I work with a Humanistic Integrative Counselling approach, which very much focuses on the growth and healing happening within the therapeutic relationship. My belief is that you the client are the expert in your own life and you have the power within yourself to make positive changes. I also integrate other therapeutic models such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Polyvagal and CBT, when appropriate to the client’s needs.
Regular feedback is encouraged during the therapeutic process in order to explore how the client is experiencing the therapy and if their needs are being met.
Anxiety is our body and mind’s natural reaction to threat or danger. It is the state of fear brought on by the anticipation of an event which may be realistic or fantasized and can lead to impairment to our mental and physical functioning.
Couples Counselling or Relationship Counselling is a type of psychotherapy
especially designed to work with couples that are experiencing difficulties
within their relationship. The therapy focuses on the dynamic between the
two people in the relationship helping to explore what both individuals want
from it.
Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing experience or
period in their lives.
There are two main types of traumas, Acute (Big-T) trauma and Complex
(Small-T) trauma.
Grief counselling will support you in working through the various stages and
range of emotions you may feel after the loss of a family member, a close
friend or a pet.
Depression is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe
symptoms that negatively impact how a person feels, thinks and acts, which
in turn may affect their daily activities such as sleeping, eating or working.
Depression symptoms can vary in severity. Feelings of sadness and/or loss of
interest in life are common.
