Ciaran Whyte Counselling & Psychotherapy

Ciaran Whyte Counselling & Psychotherapy is a counselling and psychotherapy service located in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Counselling and psychotherapy services aim to support individuals through a range of personal challenges and emotional difficulties. 

Counselling and Psychotherapy for me personally, always has been a wonderful form of self-discovery. I like to refer to the counselling process as an introduction into a wonderful new world. That new world is within our own selves. I like to bring my clients to a point in their journey where this begins to be the case for themselves as well.

And if words are hard to find at times, I can use my qualifications in Art Therapy to help that which is hidden, unspoken, and unsaid emerge into realisation.

Thus, creating a ‘New Spring’ or ‘New Beginning’ for my clients. Just like the Snowdrops, Daffodils and Sticky Buds we see emerging in Springtime.

Working together with my clients, my aim is to create

a confidential, warm, safe, and secure environment for my clients, in which they immediately know that they are held by their therapist and have full permission to gently reflect and consequently explore their own selves, and so embark on a wonderful new journey, that sees the initial issue worked with and a whole new knowledge of the self-emerge. My clients are welcome to work within their own personal therapy and self-discovery for as long as they feel they need to.

Mental Health and Well-Being Coaching 

The essence, or cornerstone of Mental Health and  

Well-being Coaching is based on and open dialogue between the coach (me) and the coachee (you). The coach helps the coachee to envisage a desired goal in life and focus on how that goal may well be achieved. A clear vision of what it would be like for the coachee to achieve a new personal goal becomes apparent, and a real possibility and belief that this new goal can be achieved is so attained for the coachee. And so, a renewed resolve is created within the coachee to work toward this new goal.

The activity of coaching brings together 

techniques, and methods that are proven to make a difference to results that the coachee has been previously creating in their life. During conversation, coaches use effective listening, and ask questions of the coachee. This then helps to create a new realisation and personal belief for the coachee that is based on new observations and helpful feedback.

‘The foundation for all coaching conversations is a  

feeling of warmth and trust felt between the coach and the coachee. Great coaches are fabulous to talk to, and the coachee will experience them as warm, attentive, and easy to relate to. This is due to the coach’s ability to build rapport with other people.’ (Starr, 2003)

The person being coached gains a new clarity  

regarding a particular topic or situation. This enables the coachee to make progress towards a new positive life situation in which new personal gaols are attained.

Online Counselling and Psychotherapy and Mental  

Health and Wellbeing Coaching

I offer an online Counselling and Psychotherapy and 

Mental Health and Wellbeing Coaching Service. This is generally done by way of a secure online video call application. You can avail of this service from the comfort of your own quiet space at home, or another place of your choosing. This also has the advantage of you not to having to spend time traveling to your appointment. The fact that the Counselling and Psychotherapy session is conducted online means that I am available to you from anywhere in the country. Distance in this case is certainly not an immediate issue. All you need is a computer or other such like device and an internet connection.