Hi, I’m Christine.
I am a Counselling Psychotherapist (MIACP). I see adults for 1-2-1 sessions in Counselling and Psychotherapy in person and also online.
I am also a Wellbeing Life Coach and my ‘My Kind of Life’ programme is designed for those who want more time, renewed energy, better relationships, and a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Do I want Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps clients to relieve emotional distress, seek solutions to problems in their lives, and to unpack cognitive distortions and unhelpful behaviours that are preventing them from finding contentment, working productively, and enjoying personal relationships.
I help clients with feelings of anxiety, loneliness, depression, anger, trauma, and stress. I also help clients who are navigating life changes, and relationship problems or who are working to overcome past issues that are blocking present joy.
Or is it Wellbeing Life Coaching I am looking for?
Wellbeing Life Coaching supports clients to not only set goals but to also find the motivation and tools to get to their physical and emotional health objectives in a positive, forward-focused, fun, and supportive environment.
I can help you build a life more aligned with your core values and beliefs, highlighting your strengths and uniqueness to create a life that is full of joy, purposeful, forward-focused, and, most importantly, yours.
My work is focused on guiding you as you return to who you truly are.
Testimonials
What my clients Say
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1-2-1 Work with Christine
I offer both counselling psychotherapy and wellbeing life coaching to adults. My therapeutic style is compassion focused, goal oriented and positively challenging.
Purchase Our Journals
Self-Reflect is a journal I designed for you. Each page has a date prompt for you to fill - inviting you to journal only on the days that are right for you. Throughout the journal you will find pops of positivity that I hope you love and at the start of the journal there is a space for your personal self-care affirmation. Enjoy x
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EMAIL: christine@christinedoyle.ie
PHONE: 087 687 1002
Blog
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Friendship struggles are a common experience of late diagnosed autistic women. I firmly believe what we call a friend is at odds with how non-autistic people view friendship and not understanding, acknowledging or making room for this difference can cause unnecessary confusion and hurt for all involved.
#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #adhd
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There is no greater feeling than to see your experience reflected in the words of another … to feel yourself bubbling with the words ‘me too’!!
I have read countless books, blogs, studies and academic reports on autism since my diagnosis and felt more and more disheartened as so many are written from the eyes of the professional outsider and/or in reference to caring for your young child with autism.
It struck me that the real expert was not being voiced. The only expert who can really give a true account of the autistic experience.
If you wish to truly understand more about being a woman, you would read a book written by a woman, what it feels like to be a chef, you would read a chefs experience, what it feels like to be autistic well… its obvious right?
@katherinemay_ in her book ‘The Electricity of Every Living Thing’ is the truest account of the experience of a late diagnosed autistic woman for me.
This is also autism
#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #autisticwomen
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Thrilled and honoured to become an official member of @rotaryclubofwexford today.
The motto of Rotary is “Service above Self” and is a space where members come together to take action to create lasting change in our communities and in ourselves.
I am very grateful also for the time offered to me to introduce the club to @colourherway_ which I founded with @amy__murray. Together we look forward to exploring how these two wonderful communities can grow and support each other in the future.
A special thank you to Niall @graphediadesign who first invited me to Rotary and to our wonderful president @natwex for her limitless generosity, thoughtfulness and professionalism.
And on a personal note, my dad was a founding member of the club and I have many fond memories of joining him in his rotary duties from Christmas hampers to raising money for the building of schools in Africa. I look forward to creating similar memories with my children, although currently they are not quite so enthused 😝
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I talk openly, but many can’t. It isn’t safe for them.
I talk openly, but maybe you can’t. You might fear that friends and family, peers and colleagues would discriminate or treat you differently. Or worse of all, feel sorry for you or infantilise you.
I know - I have seen and felt the ridicule and scoffing, slurring and judgement. It is real.
And it is wrong.
So I’ll keep talking.
#autism #autismacceptance
#autismawareness #actuallyautistic #thisiswhatautismlookslike #thisisalsoautism #neurodivergent #neuroaffirmingservice
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I mean I know many love a new notebook, I mean who wouldn’t love a new notebook, but there is just something about the prospect of clean pages, a fresh start, a chance for a clean slate that a new notebook offers that makes it so appealing to many autistic adults.
This is also autism
Note: I use also autism a lot to highlight the (adult) (late discovery) side of autism that there is not so much awareness of. Also autism does not in any way other me from autistic people but on the contrary is implied to welcome the many hidden faces of autism.
AND… if you are looking for a new notebook, I happen to have my very own Self Reflect Notebook for sale on my site - link in bio xx
#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #adhd
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I just don’t get chit chat.
I can do it … I’ve learnt what people mean when they ask about your weekend, and I know the expected response. I just find it all a bit, well, sad, and meaningless.
We pretend we care by asking but really it’s just a socially approved way of playing ‘nice’.
Why do we need these false pretences? Why can’t we be real-life nice?
I love connection. I like to give and receive connection. To me, chit-chat feels like superficial breadcrumbs when I am craving the full sliced pan.
This is also autism.
#autism #autismawareness #audhd #thisisalsoautism #adhd #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
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MENTAL CHATTER 💬
The most persistent and noticeable trait of my AuDHD (Autism & ADHD) is mental chatter.
Constant, non stop, overlapping thoughts with more thoughts, interspersed with song lyrics from earlier that day, and often a pie-in-the-sky-maybe-it-could-be-amazing invention thrown in, a joke I remember that has me laugh out loud in the middle of a quiet not-appropriate-to-laugh moment.
Over and over, never ending mental chatter.
Mental chatter is different from negative thoughts .. my mental chatter is mostly positive. It’s just constant.. it’s me being three conversations ahead .. it’s the difficulty I face trying to sleep .. or meditate.. or be.
Mental chatter is different from anxiety in that it’s rarely anything I’m worried about, just stuff my mind wants to keep thinking about.
But I don’t
I want it to stop
To quieten
To have a moment of peace
There are a few things that offer me this peace from chatter. The moments post exercise, as I stretch and creak, as my body groans and grumbles, as I feel spent and satisfied.
In that moment I feel zen.
In that moment the chatter doesn’t need to say anything.
In that moment I feel peace.
#actuallyautistic #autismawareness #autismlife #latediagnosedautistic #thisisalsoautism #audhd
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If I had known undiluted joy, laughing with abandon, with tears streaming and the occasional snort thrown in were whispers of autistic joy I would have seen myself much sooner.
For me autism is authenticity, deep feeling, a sensitivity to the world, an intensity of experience and emotion.
Sometimes this is hard.
And sometimes this is pure joy, a joy I feel is sacred and a privilege of the autist.
I’d love to feel less and I’d hate to feel less.
#actuallyautistic #autismawareness #autismlife #latediagnosedautistic
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Togetherness
Thats where the beauty is
For all who reached out to share with me, and now with others who really need to hear these words, thank you.
Autistic people are my kinda people - non autistics too - but autistic people - you feel like home to me.
#autismawareness #actuallyautistic #thisiswhatautismlookslike #thisisalsoautism #neurodivergent #neuroaffirming #neurodiversity #autismadvocate
