Welcome to
A Healing Place
Sweeney O’Heare-Young
Clinical Psychologist and Director of A Healing Place – Psychology Clinic
Good on you for investigating ways to heal. It is certainly possible for you.
You can heal your mind and heart, your way can become clear.
Enduring psychological suffering is unnecessary. Pain alerts us to something; loss (sadness), a boundary being crossed (anger), that we have hurt or let someone down (guilt), that we are not happy with our choices and want to change (regret).
Pain hurts, but there is a purity to it, a naturalness, when we really let ourselves feel it. People don’t come to see a psychologist because of pain, they come because they are suffering.
The A Healing Place – Psychology Clinic consulting room.
Suffering is not something we do on purpose.
Suffering does not feel pure or natural, it feels like a contortion of the mind; depression and self loathing, anxiety, meaninglessness, subjective worthlessness, rumination, addiction, shame, PTSD, projecting onto others, eating disorders.
Suffering occurs because…
Parts of us try to cope with reality in a way that doesn’t work anymore. For example:
Our family never let us talk-back or express anger or disagreement, so we learned to turn anger inwards on ourselves and make it our fault, but this is now prohibiting us setting boundaries as an adult and we find we get depressed instead of angry
A powerful pathway out of suffering is to notice your coping mechanisms in action, understand their purpose, reconcile their cost to you, and decide to look underneath, to reconcile with the mixed feelings that you find.
Examination of the deeper causes of suffering
Learning to regulate anxiety
I feel privileged to help clients learn to regulate their anxiety, so that they can confront the difficulties and disappointments of their life and feel their pain, so they can set themselves free from their suffering.
Let’s get to know and understand you better.
I’ll meet you with a warm and relaxed style as we get to know each other and together build a good understanding of where you are at, how you got there, and where you would like to be. Then we’ll see what we can do to get you on your way and help you to start feeling better as soon as possible.