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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Anxiety Counselling.

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Therapy Services in South Dublin & Dundalk

  • Are you struggling with unresolved emotional patterns or recurring life challenges? Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a reflective and depth-oriented process that helps uncover the root causes of these struggles. This work isn’t about “digging up” the past in a forced or overwhelming way. My approach is rooted in respect for each person’s pace and readiness. Rather than trying to uncover everything at once, it’s about listening for what emerges naturally — through repeated phrases, hesitations, or slips of the tongue — moments that often hold meaning without needing to be pushed.

    Through consistent engagement, we explore your emotional world, often revealing connections that may not have been immediately obvious. This allows for deeper understanding and lasting change, which doesn’t require constant effort. Instead, it’s about freeing yourself from patterns that no longer serve you and finding a new way of being in the world.

    In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, people often begin with what brings them to therapy—and often find that deeper connections emerge. People come to therapy for many reasons, and while each person’s story is unique, some of the areas that are often explored include: Anxiety, Relationship struggles, Sexuality, Depression, Phobias.

  • People come to therapy for many reasons—sometimes naming anxiety or low mood, but just as often describing patterns like self-sabotage, getting stuck in repetitive situations, or a sense everything seems to be going well in your life yet you feel disconnected from it all.

    Self-sabotage — getting in your own way, especially when things are starting to go well.

    Repetitive patterns — finding yourself in the same situations, relationships, or internal struggles, even when you long for something different.

    A quiet sense that something doesn’t quite add up — life may seem 'fine' on the surface, but there's a sense of disconnection, dissatisfaction, or feeling stuck beneath it all.

    What’s on offer here is something lasting: a new relationship with yourself, a loosening of the patterns that have kept you stuck, and—over time—a freer way of moving through the world. This isn’t about becoming someone else, but about coming closer to your own way of being—one that’s less driven by old, repetitive patterns and more open to discovering a new way of engaging with life.

  • Do you experience overwhelming anxiety or persistent worry? In psychoanalytic therapy, we don’t just focus on managing the symptoms; we work to understand the origins of your anxiety and how it manifests uniquely for you. Rather than digging into past trauma endlessly, we explore how these underlying factors may be shaping your current experiences. By uncovering these underlying factors, the work aims at easing the grip of anxiety, and reduce the distress it causes.

    If you’ve ever asked yourself, "Why am I anxious?" or felt overwhelmed by persistent worry, I encourage you to check out my blog post “Why Am I Anxious?”.

  • Are you facing recurring issues in your relationships? Whether it's struggles with communication, trust, or conflict, relationship counselling uncovers the hidden emotional dynamics at play. We look at how hidden emotional patterns, past experiences, and unresolved feelings may be affecting your relationships today.

    By bringing these factors into awareness, we can begin to shift these dynamics, fostering more fulfilling, authentic connections. It is about loosen old emotional coordinates to reorient yourself in a healthier, more positive direction within your relationships. In other words, the work allows you to take up a new position in your relationships with others.

  • Are irrational fears impacting your daily life? Phobias often stem from deeper emotional conflicts or past experiences that have yet to be processed. In therapy, rather than searching for a single cause, we listen to how the fear speaks — what it might be pointing to, what place it holds in your life, and what it makes possible or impossible. By exploring these triggers, we reduce the intensity of your fears, allowing you a chance to live more freely without the constraints of phobic responses.

  • Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, phobias, or what seems to repeat, psychoanalytic psychotherapy responds to your singularity — your unique experience. We explore the deeper emotional forces that may be shaping your thoughts, behaviors, and struggles, and work through them in a way that allows for lasting change.

    Psychoanalytic therapy is a deep, reflective process, and while it requires commitment, it provides valuable insights and lasting change that can help you move beyond old patterns. What’s key is that psychoanalytic therapy doesn’t require constant "digging" into your past. My approach is rooted in respect for each person’s pace and readiness.

Individual Therapy Sessions for Adults

Based in South Dublin and Dundalk, I offer a range of depth-oriented psychotherapy services that explore the deeper emotional and psychological dynamics affecting your life. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, sexuality or seeking a more profound understanding of your inner world, the work we do together is to create lasting change.

I am passionate about guiding you towards feeling more at ease with yourself and others. All good things follow from this; overcoming stress, relationship struggles, anxiety, finding your place in the world. 

If you feel ready to invest in yourself and experience change I welcome your call or email.

What has been people’s experience of Niamh Duffy Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Dublin and Dundalk, Co. Louth?

 Reflections From People I’ve Worked With:

“I thought Niamh was extremely good in facilitating my thoughts and emotions during the work we did together. I want to thank Niamh for her time over the past while, I will recommend her to anybody who comes my way.”

— Individual previously in therapy

“I feel so much lighter after beginning the sessions with Niamh, my anxiety has reduced greatly. I would highly recommend Niamh and the work she does.”

— Individual previously in therapy

"I wanted to share my experience with Niamh. I found her approach, especially the way she speaks about loosening the position you take up in your life, incredibly insightful. It helped shift something, and made a real difference in how I navigated the difficulties I brought to therapy.”

— Individual previously in therapy

“I’m really glad I gave the time to work on myself and work through the things that were holding me back. Thank you Niamh.”

— Individual previously in therapy

Get started today.

You can give me a call on 0871515349 or fill in the form below to make an appointment.

If you feel ready to invest in yourself and experience change I welcome your call or email.