South Dublin Counselling & Psychological Services is a Private Practice Psychology Service staffed by professional Counselling Psychologists who are members of the Psychological Society of Ireland and governed by their Ethical Guidelines. Our clinics are located in Dun Laoghaire and Booterstown / Blackrock. We provide both morning, afternoon and evening appointments.

SDCPS provides therapeutic services to individuals, couples and families accross the lifespan according to their unique needs.

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Psychological Services

At SDCPS we provide a wide range of Psychological Services which include the following:

Psychotherapeutic Services

  • Individual counselling
  • Relationship/couple counselling
  • Psychotherapy
  • Family therapy
  • Child and adolescent therapy
  • Play therapy
  • Independent Supervision

Psychometric Assessment

At South Dublin Counselling and Psychological Services our Psychologists can provide tailored psychometric assessments according to your unique needs.

Assessments include:

  • Outcome and Session Rating Scores (ORS & SRS)
  • Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-OM)
  • Suicidal Risk Assessment
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2 & RF)
  • NEO Personality Inventory -3
  • Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R)
  • Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
  • Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)
  • Woodcock-Johnson III
  • Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (R-BANS)
  • Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
  • Mini-Mental Status Evaluation (MMSE)
  • Addenbrookes Cognitive Examination Revised (ACE-R)
  • Behavioural Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)
  • Frontal systems Behaviour Scale (FrSBe)
  • Delis-Kaplan Executive Functions System (D-KEFS)
  • Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT)
  • Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III)

Psychological Report Services

At South Dublin Counselling and Psychological Services we can provide professionally written Psychological Reports for a variety of purposes. Please contact us to discuss your specific requirement and one of our Psychologists will be able to advise you.

Consultancy services 

South Dublin Counselling and Psychological Services offers strategic consultancy services to our clients. This includes independent consultancy on a range of issues that are relevant to businesses and organisations in these challenging economic times.  

We provide independent project evaluation as well as clinical auditing function for organisations.

We also provide tailored and needs based training to staff. 

Areas of tailored facilitation and training include:

  • Stress management
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Assertiveness
  • Communication & Negotiation skills
  • Conflict Resolution Skills
  • Positive Parenting Skills
  • Mindfulness
  • Co-operative goal attainment
  • Communication & Negotiation

What is a Counselling Psychologist?

Counselling Psychologists work in a wide variety of settings to help people with physical, emotional and mental health concerns, improve their sense of well-being, alleviate feelings of distress and resolve crises. They also provide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of more severe psychological symptoms. Interventions used by Counselling Psychologists can be brief or more long-term and are focused on individual differences. At South Dublin Counselling & Psychological Services our Counselling Psychologists are registered with the Psychological Society of Ireland.

Our values are:

  • To draw on your strengths and engage with your perspective, values and beliefs empathically (whether being seen as individuals, couples, families, groups or organizations).
  • To empathically know you as valid on your terms; to elucidate, interpret and negotiate between perceptions and world views, environmental and situational influences (how cultural, gender, career and lifestyle issues shape experiences and concerns).
  • To be practice led with a research base grounded in empiricism while valuing professional artistry. We engage in evidence-based intervention in our practice
  • To recognize social contexts and discrimination and to work in ways that empower. To address issues of diversity and social justice (e.g., advocacy) and a hold high standard of anti-discriminatory practice appropriate to the pluralistic nature of society today. 

Our services are confidential. This means that the therapeutic relationship takes place in the therapy room and your engagement with the service as well as your personal information will not be shared outside of this space. Any limit to confidentiality will be clarified in your initial appointment prior to engaging.

(integrated from American Psychological Society and British Psychological Society 2017 websites)

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