Mindful Matters

About

Mindful Matters was founded in 2008 by Claudine Nelan. In her counselling & psychotherapy practice Claudine draws on over ten years experience working with people from all walks of life and with issues ranging from anxiety to depression to anger management and relationship issues to name a few.

As a Psychotherapist/Counsellor, Claudine draws on a range of therapeutic approaches, humanistic integrative, compassion focused therapy (CFT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), tailoring her service to suit each individuals needs.
She believes mindful self-compassion is the foundation of emotional healing – being aware in the present moment when we’e struggling with feelings of inadequacy, despair, confusion, and other forms of stress (mindfulness) and responding with kindness and understanding (self-compassion). Claudine uses a respectful, non-judgemental, empathic listening approach.

She is genuinely interested in people and facilitating or making easy their ability to effect positive changes in their lives. She is familiar with the process of change and finds this enriches her work with her clients. She sees continual potential for change, throughout life, through awareness of one’s values, belief systems, thoughts and emotions, through taking responsibility and through making new choices and committing to action (if they are able); all of which can be fostered by a supportive relationship with a skilled empathic therapist. She views the relationship as the keystone to counselling and places particular emphasis on the quality of the relationship.

She believes the client is the expert on themselves, assisting them to make meaningful changes in the service of what matters most to them, viewing her role as a supportive, non directive one. She has worked extensively with clients on issues such as relationship difficulties, trauma, bullying, chronic illness, panic attacks and with clients who feel stuck in perpetual cycles of stress, anxiety, anger, depression, or addiction or are experiencing dissatisfaction in their day to day life. She offers practical strategies to calm our anxious minds, transform negative emotions, and facilitate greater self acceptance, freedom and inner peace.

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