Ciaran Whyte Counselling & Psychotherapy

Hello and welcome to my website.

 

My Name is Ciaran Whyte. I started on my journey into Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2008.

 

I am a fully qualified, IACP accredited, Counsellor and Psychotherapist. I hold both a Diploma, and BSc Hons Degree in Counselling & Psychotherapy. I also hold an Advanced Diploma in Mental Health and Well-Being Coaching.

 

My specialist areas in Counselling and Psychotherapy are, Humanistic Person-Centred Rogerian Psychotherapy, Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Art Therapy. I am also a Mental Health and Well-Being Coach as I also hold an Advanced Diploma in Mental Health & Well-Being Coaching.

 

I am a fully accredited member of the Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. I also enjoy volunteering within the IACP, currently serving as the Chairperson of the Midlands Regional Committee of the IACP. This role I hold on this committee involves working with our committee members as we organise and coordinate Continuous Professional Workshops and Events for our IACP Members.

 

I have also worked voluntarily in Mental Health Recovery Education for five years, as a Peer Educator, Facilitator, and Co-Facilitator and as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist. In this work I helped groups of mental health service users, use their lived experience to co-produce, design and deliver Recovery Education Classes These classes served to help other students in these classes understand, and use, their lived experience is to broaden their own personal understanding.

 

In my work as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist, my main objective is firstly to help my clients to the best of my ability. As a result of this, I try to work to a personal ethical standard that aims to ensure the maintenance of my client’s best interest and their good, productive, and safe progression at all times.

 

Although my work mainly follows and holds true to the Person-Centred Theories of Carl Rogers, I also like to work in an integrative way, using the Psychoanalytical Theories of Carl Jung, the Cognitive Behavioural Theories of Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, and the Choice Theories of William Glasser.

 

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.

 

I like to create a warm, safe, and secure environment for my clients in which they immediately know that they are held and have full permission to gently reflect and enjoy a fresh new life exploration.

 

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. A journey that not only sees the initial issue worked with, but a whole new knowledge of their own 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.