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Are you seeking balance and peace in your life? Do you wish to navigate life’s challenges with clarity and resilience? At Access Counselling, we are here to support you on your journey towards personal growth and positive change.
Do you feel like you’re constantly searching for answers? With our caring and affordable counselling services, you don’t have to face these challenges alone. We offer a safe and non-judgmental space where you can confidentially explore your thoughts, feelings, and concerns.
Our experienced and compassionate team is dedicated to understanding your unique needs and tailoring our services to support you effectively. Through counselling, you’ll have the opportunity to gain insight into yourself, develop coping strategies, and explore personal challenges. Whether you’re an individual, a couple, or a family, we provide a wide range of services to meet your specific needs.
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[H4] What Is Counselling?
Counseling is a chance to talk confidentially with someone who can help you learn skills and new ways of looking at situations. This can help you be more capable of solving problems on your own.  We will help you to explore your feelings and resolve your concerns.
Some clients benefit from one or two sessions of problem-solving, while some concerns may warrant further counselling sessions.
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[H4] How Can Dublin Counselling Help You?
At our Dublin-based counselling clinic, we can help you make sense of what happens and has happened in your life by reflecting on experiences of the past and coming to understand how they affect the present, the person you are today.
Counselling therapy allows a patient to talk about personal problems and feelings in a confidential, trustworthy, and safe environment.
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[H4] Find Your Dublin Counsellor
You can call us on 01 5240708 or on our mobile number 0851391846 where we also respond through text messages. You can also email us for an appointment using our online booking form.
Our counselling clinic in Dublin is run by Beth Fitzpatrick (Counselling DIP, Director of Access). The first point of contact is Beth herself, or Andy. We’ll decide based on your needs which counsellor is best for you.
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[H2] Try our online therapy service
Online Counselling & Psychotherapy Service combines the ethical foundations of counselling and psychotherapy, with the accessibility of online communication, to bring you a safe and user-friendly online counselling service.
We offer you the ability to establish a deep relationship between you and your therapist, all through the medium of Zoom.
We also offer relationship counselling on line which can be very accessible for couples with busy lifestyle and kids. These sessions can be done during school hours or when kids are in bed.
You can send us an enquiry or call us on 01 5240708. We will promptly answer your questions. In addition, we can schedule an appointment for online counselling without delay.
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Covid-19 Update: We are open, following strict guidelines and taking all recommended precautions. If you are unable to come into the clinic, we can still help you via our online counselling service.
Access Counselling Clinic in Dublin provides professional and confidential counselling. We also provide low cost counselling.
A short consultation is available by telephone and you may make an appointment following that if you wish. You will be given an appointment within 4 hours of any working day.
Opening times 9am to 9 pm, tel: 9am to 8pm Mon to Fri. Emergencies can be seen within 24 hours Mon-Sat.
You can make an appointment by calling us on 01 5240708 or click here to book a counselling appointment online.
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You can phone the service on
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0851391846
where we will also respond through text messages.
You can also email us for an appointment using our online booking form.
Our counselling clinic in Dublin is run by Beth Fitzpatrick (Counselling DIP, Director of Access). The first point of contact is Tom or Andy, who are both experienced psychotherapists, We’ll decide based on your needs which counsellor is best for you.
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An initial appointment will be offered. This is an introductory meeting, lasting about 50 minutes, providing an opportunity to meet the therapist and decide if you can work together and begin to share and explore current difficulties and concerns. You will be charged for this session, but it carries no obligation to continue. It also offers the opportunity to jointly assess whether therapy or counselling may be useful at this time; or whether some other form of help would be more appropriate.
We meet for 50 minutes each week. The full duration of a counselling relationship can vary, depending on what you choose to bring to sessions and whether you find therapy useful for you. You should expect to come for at least 6-8 sessions to really feel the benefit in your life and get beneath the surface of your issues.
Day- or evening-time appointments are available from 9am until 9pm Mon-Fri, or 9am-3pm Saturdays.
We charge Between €50 – €80 euro per session for one to one therapy, €80 – €100 for relationship/couples and Family / more than 2 people is €40 per person is. Payment is by cash or cheque.
We do provide a sliding scale for those that are on low income. Everyone is provided for.
For more information email us on info@accesscounselling.ie.
[H2] How to Find Us
Access Counselling Clinic is located at 353 Crumlin Road, Dublin 12 . Please contact us if you need any further information or if you would like to arrange an appointment.
Telephone: 01 5240708
Email: info@accesscounselling.ie
Our main centre is I approx. 5 minutes’ walk from Our Ladies Children’s Hospital. We are on the opposite side of the hospital.
We have no direct parking but there is off-street parking opposite us. To protect your own and others’ privacy please arrive at the appointed time.
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[H2] Anxiety Therapy: What is Anxiety?
Anxiety is a normal emotional response that most of us experience as part of our day to day lives.
Anxiety can be described as an unpleasant feeling that we might describe as feeling ‘uptight’ ‘nervous’ ‘irritable’ or ‘wound-up’.
When we are feeling anxious we can often experience physical sensations that can include:
Increased heart rate
Muscular tension
Sweating
Trembling
Feelings of breathlessness
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[H3] Anxiety is caused by a variety of factors including:
Life events: e.g., bereavements and loss, life changes, work and/or personal pressures, relationship problems, trauma, situational factors such as starting college or starting a new job or any situation where there are expectations and pressures that are new or unfamiliar to you.
Thinking styles: Sometimes the way we think about ourselves and our experiences can contribute to increasing and prolonging anxiety, e.g., expecting the worst thing to happen, fearful of being exposed, embarrassed etc., over-thinking and/or ruminating about situations.
Evolutionary & Biological reasons: Anxiety/ stress can have positive benefits and humans have evolved to be mindful of threats to our safety and survival. The stress response (fight – flight – freeze) triggers chemicals into our bodies to keep us alert when we perceive danger is present. We also develop behaviours, attitudes and personality traits based on our biological and environmental influences as we developed. Some of these can be helpful and unhelpful.
[H3] Debilitating Anxiety
Sometimes a person may experience anxiety that is debilitating and may prevent them from enjoying their daily lives. Anxiety is undoubtedly an unpleasant feeling, but it is something that everyone experiences. Of course, some people experience anxiety more regularly than others. Due to the unpleasant nature of anxiety, people often worry that experiencing it is harmful. For example they may fear that regularly worrying will make them go mad or that the physical symptoms of anxiety (e.g. heart racing) are signs of a serious health problem. Sometimes a person may experience acute physical anxiety attacks in what is commonly described as ‘panic attacks’. Panic attacks can be very frightening for a person as the physical symptoms are intense even though they are short lived. Such fears naturally make people even more anxious which creates a vicious cycle of anxiety.
[H3] How Counselling can help you Deal with Anxiety
Most daily occurrences are not life threatening and therefore learning how to change how we view and think about ourselves and our experiences can help to reduce anxiety and anxious responses.When exploring anxiety  with your counsellor you can learn to understand that it is a very healthy response which actually helps to protect us. By learning more about anxiety and why we experience it in the first place, we can see that it is not harmful. This can help us to be less fearful of the symptoms which in turn has a positive affect on our overall anxiety levels. Counselling also helps you to learn new skills and ways of thinking that can reduce the harmful symptoms of anxiety. Your counsellor will help you to:
1. Understanding more about anxiety.
2. Learning how to challenge your unhelpful thoughts and see things in a more realistic light.
3. Improving your problem solving skills.
4. Learning how to reduce the amount of time you spend worrying.
5. Learning how you can feel more relaxed (physically and mentally).
6. Learning how to stop avoiding the things that make you anxious.
Contact Access Counselling Clinic at 01 5240708 and we can chat to your further about getting an appointment with a specially trained therapist.
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Depression can leave you feeling bored, tired and emotional. Fortunately, there is treatment for depression that doesn’t have to involve medication. When you seek counselling for depression, you will speak confidentially with a counsellor who is trained to help you with your symptoms. By talking about your concerns and exploring your emotions, you will be encouraged to employ problem-solving techniques to overcome the issues that are at the root of your depression.
Have you wondered if you might be depressed? The symptoms might not be as simple as you would imagine. In fact, depression can appear in mental and physical forms. Try the following inventory to see if you might be experiencing depression.

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anxious, bored or tired?
experiencing chronic fatigue or tiredness?
overcome by a lack of motivation for normal activities?
getting too much or too little sleep?
having trouble thinking?
showing a loss of interest in food, sex, work or other things I normally enjoy?
feeling like I’m not worthy?
having headaches, heart palpitations, chest pain or other aches and pains that have no other medical basis?
having suicidal thoughts or thinking that I can’t go on?
If you answered ‘yes’ to five or more of the above questions, you could possibly be suffering from clinical depression. Your body’s way of signalling abnormal stress is to produce the signs above. When these signs of depression persist for two or more weeks, depression can almost always be confirmed. Ignoring these problems will only create further problems, because your body can not simply rid itself of complex depression.
Seeking depression counselling will ensure that your signs do not worsen. Depression counselling is used as a tool to reduce the root causes for the depression you are experiencing. When you seek professional depression counselling, a counsellor will be interested in gaining a better understanding of you. He or she will want to learn about your past experiences, current lifestyle and concerns. Once the two of you have established a working partnership, your depression counselling will truly begin.
During this stage, your counsellor will encourage you to elaborate about your concerns. He or she will implore you to use critical thinking skills to remedy your problems. The overall goal of your depression counselling will be to creatively find solutions to your issues by harnessing your innate intelligence and boosting your self-esteem. People suffering with depression often find that only a few sessions are necessary to achieve results, while other people find that depression counselling on an ongoing basis is more desirable. Your counsellor will help you decide the duration of your depression counselling..
If you answered ‘yes’ to five or more of the inventory questions, or if you would like to learn more about depression counselling, our friendly counsellors are available to answer your questions. You can send us an enquiry or call us on 01 5240708. We will promptly answer your questions. In addition, we can schedule an appointment for depression counselling without delay.
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If you’re experiencing any of the following, now is the time to consider couples / marriage / relationship counselling:
When you talk to your partner, it feels as though you’re hitting a brick wall.
Your conversations just go round and round in never-ending circles.
After you’ve talked, you feel frustrated and confused.
You can’t talk for more than a few minutes without it turning into a shouting match.
You’re afraid that if you bring up a certain subject, things will get even worse.
There’s nothing left to say.
There is a lot of arguments or relationship conflicts.
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[H2] Couples Counselling: Together or alone?
Ideally, you should go to couple counselling together: it’s hard to build a team if only half the players are there. If one person makes the decision to give couple counselling a try, the partner may decide to go too.
If your partner flatly refuses to join you, there are lots of things couple counselling can help you sort out on your own. There may be changes you can make alone that will have a positive impact on your relationship. Some people also prefer to have counselling on their own at first to work out their feelings before seeing another counsellor as a couple.

[H2] What will happen?
All counsellors have their own styles and ways of working. Our counsellors have been counselling Dublin couples regularly for some time now. Some of our counsellors also offer creative arts and therapeutic exercises in addition to talking.
Whichever approach you choose, broadly speaking all our counsellors will help you to work through the following three steps:
Exploring your story – the nature of the problems and what impact they’re having on you and your relationship. The history of how the problems arose and what changes you’d like to see.
Understanding your story – why you’re struggling with these problems and the things that may be preventing you from overcoming them.
Rewriting your story – finding the strengths and resources to resolve your difficulties, or at least make them more bearable.

[H2] How does couples / relationship / marriage counselling work?
First and foremost, couple counselling works by giving you the chance to be heard. Your counsellor will give you both all the time you need to talk, sob, shout or just think. It’s an opportunity to look at the problem in a different way with someone who’ll respect and encourage your opinions and decisions.
For many couples, the solution is right under their noses – it just takes someone objective to help you access your resources within and see what it is. It’s like the saying “You can’t see the wood for the trees” – counsellors are trained wood-spotters!
Send us an enquiry, or call us on 01 5240708 to make an appointment to see a relationship counsellor and see how Relationship Counselling / Marriage Counselling / Couples Counselling can help you.
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[H1] Can Panic Attack Counselling Help You Feel Better Faster?
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A panic attack can feel terrifying when it happens suddenly. Your heart races, your chest tightens, your breathing changes, and your body reacts as though something dangerous is happening, even when there is no immediate threat around you. Many people genuinely believe they are having a serious medical emergency during their first panic attack because the physical symptoms feel so intense and convincing.
What often becomes just as difficult as the attack itself is the fear of it happening again. You may begin monitoring your body constantly, avoiding certain situations, or feeling anxious in places that once felt normal. Panic attack counselling can help you understand what is happening physically and emotionally while giving you practical support to regain a stronger sense of control and stability.
[H2] Why Panic Attacks Can Start Affecting Everyday Life
Panic attacks rarely stay limited to isolated moments of fear. For many people, the anticipation of another attack gradually begins affecting everyday decisions, routines, and confidence levels in ways that feel emotionally exhausting.
You may start avoiding places where previous attacks occurred. Public transport, shopping centres, busy roads, social situations, or even quiet moments alone can begin feeling emotionally charged because your brain starts associating those environments with danger.
This avoidance often develops slowly at first. You might change small habits without fully noticing. Over time, however, your world can begin shrinking as more situations start feeling unsafe or unpredictable.
The emotional impact extends beyond the panic attacks themselves. Constantly worrying about your body’s reactions can affect concentration, sleep, work performance, and relationships. Some people become emotionally drained from feeling permanently “on alert” throughout the day.
There is also frustration around not fully understanding why the attacks are happening. Panic can feel random and uncontrollable, which naturally increases fear. The less predictable the attacks feel, the harder it often becomes to trust your own body and emotions.
This is why many people eventually seek counselling. The goal is not simply stopping panic in isolated moments, but reducing the overall fear cycle that starts shaping daily life.
[H2] How Professional Support Helps Break the Panic Cycle
Panic attack counselling can often help you feel better faster by helping you understand your symptoms, identify anxiety patterns, and develop healthier responses before fear becomes more deeply ingrained. While recovery is usually gradual rather than instant, many people experience relief simply from understanding what is happening to them more clearly.
One of the biggest benefits of counselling is reducing uncertainty. Panic attacks feel frightening partly because they seem unpredictable and physically alarming. Understanding the body’s stress response often helps reduce some of the fear surrounding the symptoms themselves.
Counselling also helps identify patterns that may be contributing to the attacks. Stress, emotional overwhelm, unresolved anxiety, burnout, health fears, and ongoing pressure can all influence panic responses differently from person to person.
Early support can be particularly helpful because panic-related avoidance tends to strengthen over time. The longer fear shapes behaviour patterns, the harder it can become emotionally to re-engage with avoided situations confidently.
Importantly, counselling is not about forcing you to “calm down” or simply think positively. Panic attacks involve genuine physical and emotional reactions. Effective counselling acknowledges that reality while helping you respond to those reactions more safely and confidently over time.
For many people, feeling understood and supported already creates a meaningful sense of relief. Panic often becomes less overwhelming once you no longer feel completely alone with it.
[H2] What Happens During Panic Attack Counselling?
Panic attack counselling usually begins with understanding your experiences, symptoms, triggers, and the impact anxiety is having on your daily life. The process is typically gentle and collaborative rather than overwhelming or confrontational.
In early sessions, you may talk about when the panic attacks began, what situations feel difficult, and how your body reacts during episodes of panic. Counsellors often help explain the physical stress response in simple and reassuring ways so the symptoms feel less mysterious and frightening.
The sessions may also explore thought patterns connected to panic. Many people begin fearing the physical sensations linked to anxiety itself. A rapid heartbeat, dizziness, or shortness of breath can quickly trigger catastrophic thinking once your mind starts associating those sensations with danger.
Counselling helps interrupt this cycle gradually. Instead of immediately fearing the sensations, you begin learning how anxiety affects the nervous system and why the body reacts so intensely during periods of heightened stress.
Practical coping strategies are often introduced as well. These may include grounding techniques, breathing exercises, emotional regulation tools, or ways to respond differently when panic symptoms begin rising.
Importantly, the pace usually adapts to your comfort level. Panic attack counselling is not about forcing exposure immediately or pushing you into distressing situations before you feel emotionally ready.
Over time, many people notice that understanding their panic response reduces some of the fear attached to it. That shift alone can begin weakening the intensity of the overall anxiety cycle.
[H2] Why Panic Attacks Often Feel Physically Dangerous
One reason panic attacks feel so frightening is that the physical symptoms genuinely mimic danger signals within the body. Your nervous system activates a fight-or-flight response designed to protect you during perceived threat, even when no external danger is actually present.
Panic attacks can cause rapid heartbeat, chest tightness, dizziness, shaking, sweating, nausea, tingling sensations, and difficulty breathing. Because these symptoms overlap with serious medical concerns, panic attacks often feel physically dangerous in the moment.
The body’s adrenaline response intensifies everything quickly. Once fear rises, your breathing may change, muscle tension increases, and your awareness of bodily sensations becomes stronger. This heightened focus can make the symptoms feel even more alarming.
Many people then begin fearing the symptoms themselves. Instead of simply experiencing anxiety, you become anxious about becoming anxious again. This creates a reinforcing loop where fear of panic increases the likelihood of future panic episodes.
Understanding this process does not magically remove anxiety overnight, but it often reduces the sense of mystery surrounding the attacks. Counselling helps separate the feeling of danger from actual danger more clearly over time.
This distinction matters because panic attacks may feel catastrophic emotionally while still being treatable and manageable with proper support.
[H2] How Avoidance Can Make Anxiety Feel Worse Over Time
Avoidance often begins as a completely understandable attempt to protect yourself. If a panic attack happened in a supermarket, on a motorway, or during a crowded event, naturally, you may start feeling hesitant about returning to those situations.
The difficulty is that avoidance can quietly reinforce fear over time. Each avoided situation teaches the brain that the environment itself is dangerous, even when the actual problem is the anxiety response associated with it.
Gradually, confidence can shrink. Some people begin avoiding travel, social plans, exercise, shopping, or unfamiliar places because they fear panic symptoms returning unexpectedly.
This creates frustration because life starts revolving around prevention rather than freedom. You may spend large amounts of emotional energy trying to avoid situations where panic could happen instead of enjoying normal daily experiences.
Panic attack counselling helps address this pattern carefully and gradually. The goal is not to force you into overwhelming situations immediately. It is helping you rebuild trust in your ability to tolerate anxiety symptoms without feeling controlled by them.
Over time, reducing avoidance often becomes a major turning point in recovery because confidence starts returning alongside emotional stability.
[H2] Can Counselling Stop Panic Attacks Completely?
Counselling can significantly reduce the frequency, intensity, and emotional impact of panic attacks, although recovery experiences vary from person to person. Many people find that panic becomes far more manageable once they understand the anxiety cycle and learn healthier ways to respond to symptoms.
For some individuals, panic attacks eventually stop happening altogether. Others may still experience occasional anxiety symptoms but feel much less frightened by them. This shift matters because fear itself often fuels the panic cycle.
Counselling focuses not only on symptom reduction but also on emotional resilience. You begin recognising that physical sensations associated with anxiety do not automatically mean danger.
This change in interpretation can reduce escalation during stressful moments. Instead of immediately catastrophising normal stress responses, you become more able to regulate your reactions calmly.
Recovery also involves rebuilding confidence gradually. Many people begin counselling feeling trapped by fear and uncertainty. Over time, regaining trust in your own body and emotional responses often becomes one of the most meaningful improvements.
The process usually happens through consistent support rather than dramatic overnight change. Small emotional shifts often build into significant long-term progress.
[H2] How Panic Attack Counselling Supports Long-Term Recovery
Panic attack counselling supports long-term recovery by helping you understand both the symptoms themselves and the deeper emotional patterns contributing to anxiety over time. Rather than focusing only on isolated panic episodes, counselling helps address the broader fear cycle surrounding them.
Stress, burnout, perfectionism, unresolved emotional pressure, and chronic anxiety may all influence panic responses differently. Counselling creates space to explore these factors without judgement or pressure.
Emotional regulation skills are another important part of recovery. Many people learn how to recognise rising anxiety earlier and respond before panic escalates fully.
Confidence-building also plays a major role. As fear gradually decreases, avoided situations often begin feeling more manageable again. Small experiences of success can slowly rebuild emotional trust and independence.
Long-term recovery usually involves becoming less afraid of anxiety itself. Panic symptoms may still feel uncomfortable occasionally, but they no longer dominate your decisions or sense of safety in the same way.
This shift can significantly improve the quality of life because the focus moves away from constant fear management and back towards normal living again.
[H2] When Should You Seek Professional Support?
Professional support is usually worth considering when panic attacks begin affecting your daily functioning, emotional well-being, relationships, sleep, or confidence significantly. Waiting until symptoms become more severe can make the anxiety cycle more difficult to break over time.
Frequent panic attacks, ongoing fear of future attacks, or increasing avoidance behaviours are all important signs that support may help. Some people also experience constant background anxiety between panic episodes, which can become exhausting over time.
Sleep disruption, irritability, concentration problems, and social withdrawal may develop gradually as well. Even when panic attacks themselves are occasional, the surrounding anxiety can still affect daily quality of life substantially.
Seeking support early does not mean your anxiety is “serious enough” to justify help. Counselling is not reserved only for crisis situations. Early intervention often prevents fear patterns from becoming more deeply established.
Many people wish they had sought help sooner once they realise how much energy they had been spending managing anxiety alone.
[H2] What Recovery From Panic Attacks Often Looks Like
Recovery from panic attacks usually happens gradually rather than through one dramatic breakthrough moment. Many people initially expect panic to disappear completely and instantly, but progress often looks quieter and steadier.
You may first notice that the symptoms feel less frightening, even if they still occur occasionally. Over time, panic may stop escalating as quickly because you understand the sensations differently and respond with less fear.
Confidence often returns in stages as well. Situations that once felt impossible may slowly become manageable again through repeated positive experiences.
There can still be difficult days during recovery. Anxiety rarely improves in a perfectly straight line. However, setbacks do not erase progress already made.
What changes most significantly for many people is their relationship with panic itself. Instead of feeling completely controlled by fear, you gradually feel more capable of navigating anxiety without it dominating your life.
That emotional shift often becomes one of the most important parts of long-term recovery.
In conclusion, panic attacks can feel frightening, exhausting, and deeply disruptive when they begin affecting everyday life. The physical symptoms often feel overwhelming, while the fear of another attack can gradually shape routines, confidence, and emotional well-being over time.
The good news is that panic attacks are treatable, and support can make a meaningful difference. Panic attack counselling helps you understand what is happening emotionally and physically while giving you practical tools to reduce fear, rebuild confidence, and regain a stronger sense of stability.
Are panic attacks starting to affect your confidence or daily life? Panic attack counselling can help you understand your symptoms, reduce fear, and begin feeling more emotionally in control again. Contact us to arrange confidential support and take the first step towards recovery. Call us on 015240708 or 014303631 or click here to reach us today!
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