Counselling: Greystones, Wicklow

Helping professionals build loving, supportive relationships-that last!

Let me help you build loving, supportive relationships & recover from past pain. I help people who have hit a rough patch or are struggling to move forward (like you?), to get their life back on track & their soul singing again. I can help you move from where you are now to where you’d like to be.

Let me show you how to overcome the experiences that stand in the way of your happiness; help you to feel confident in your own skin; good about who you are & secure in your ability to create supportive, sustainable and nourishing relationships.

All this will take is a matter of weeks or months-as it is a brief, solution-focused approach that I use, combined with The Gottman Institute’s long-term research.

I like to create for my clients a warm, safe & discrete, open, light-hearted & non-judgmental space. I take pride in offering a high quality service that is unrushed -because I allow people the time that they need- & effective -because it is grounded in a solid evidence base.

During my career, for over thirty years now, I’ve helped people from all types of backgrounds & walks of life to live a more fulfilled, joyful, meaningful life. For the last 18 years I’ve been using a uniquely effective healing process in my work.

Some of what goes wrong for people in life & in relationships comes down , in the end, to unconscious, emotionally driven reactions. This is very hard to fix on your own- no amount of self- help can reach this stuff.

I can help you address these deeper issues & leave forever these repeating cycles of unhappiness & heart-ache.

As a natural cheerleader, I want you to feel encouraged and comfortable during our work together.

So call or text me on 086 3549969 – I’d love to help you!

“I just wanted to tell you the good news that (my husband) and I are back together & have been since (8 months). Didn’t want to ring you earlier as was keen to see how things were going but so far it is great and I have my lovely husband (not grumpy one) back! All is so much better and we are both in much better places than we were before. I am very grateful to you as on our journey you were the only professional who understood it properly.”

Couples Counselling- Female Client

“You and what I learnt from our sessions come into my mind often and I just wanted to say a massive massive thank you as you helped me no end! You helped me open up a life I always wanted but never thought possible!! It has had such a positive impact on my life and I am so grateful ❤️. . I am still soo happy living w ( my partner) and we now have a beautiful 6 month old son he is absolutely amazing, a gas character and a dream come true!! ..If I could send all my friends to you I would (and I do try ……. subtlety … of course) ”.

– Relationships Coaching Female Client

“I kept going back to the same abusive relationship for the last fifteen years. Always feeling it failed because I didn’t do enough or did the wrong thing. I had also become accepting of bad behaviour, cheating, lying was normal & I was to accept it. I also found myself reacting to some scenarios where my emotional response was more than required!
I am now out of the abusive relationship and looking to build a healthy one. Not only do I want one but I also believe I deserve one. I no longer need to accept bad behaviour and drama. I have also learnt to let go of a lot of the emotion I had built up over the years. I can now move past these bad experiences and not let them affect my current responses. I am open to dealing with the emotions while not letting it overwhelm me.
I feel that the pace at which we did the work was perfect. Thank you for helping me move on from my past & believe I deserve a better future. You have helped me a lot and I genuinely feel like a different person who deserves better.”

– Relationship Coaching – Female Client

“Relationship stress? Feel depressed? Happens to everyone. There’s nothing I can do about it, unless I agree to long term surgery of my past in a psychiatrists den. That’s what I thought – and fortunately Ann Marie proved me wrong. She helped me to see these apparently little things. The things in my relationships that build up and multiply until I feel them of crushing importance. I learnt what to watch out for and with her feedback was able to integrate this into daily practice. You are never too old – I just turned 60 – or too young to change your life. Three sessions helped me to rejuvenate my marriage and vaccinate me against depression attacks.”

Relationships- Male Married Client

“All I can say is – it worked for me.”

Male Married Client – Relationships Coaching

How do I get started?

Redscover the love that was inside you all along! Call or text me – on 086 354 9969

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My Background

I studied Psychology at Bangor University (University College of North Wales)before gaining a distinction in HG Psychotherapy in 2002. I hold a BA (hons) in Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy.I am fully trained, qualified & accredited in the most up-to-date, evidence based psychotherapy methods (read more about this here).

I have worked with people under pressure &/or in distress for more than thirty years, helping people get their lives back following major set-backs and am a founder member of MindFully Well, a network of therapists specialising in using up-to-date, evidence-based methods to treat emotional & stress-related difficulties.

I was born & brought up in East Yorkshire, England, UK and am the eldest of four sisters. My mother was from County Meath. I live in County Wicklow with my husband & thirteen year old twins (a boy & a girl).