About Sinéad
Compassionate, experienced therapist that focuses on you
I’m Sinéad Duffy, a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience helping people understand and come through emotional experiences.
Many of my clients appear to be coping well, yet privately struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, people-pleasing or the persistent feeling of not being good enough.
I believe these difficulties often have deeper roots in unresolved experiences, suppressed emotions and patterns developed earlier in life.
My work goes beyond simply talking or managing symptoms. I help people explore and process emotional pain they may have carried for years, so that old patterns can begin to lose their hold.
Drawing on extensive training in psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy, my approach is tailored to you, with the aim of helping you feel lighter, more confident and more at ease with yourself.
I work in Monaghan Town and online across Ireland.
✓ Trauma Informed Hypno-Psychotherapist
✓ 20 Years Experience
✓ 7 years Training, Dip, Adv Dip, Ass Deg, Masters in Clinical Hypno-Psychotherapy
✓ Clinical Hypno-Psychotherapy Supervisor
✓ ICHP Trainer
what guides the work
There is nothing more important to you than your life.
Your mind and body are amazing! It find the most intelligent ways of being and keeping you safe. Your mind sets out to protect you by avoiding feelings you did not like in the past.
Anxiety, panic, avoidance and intelligent ways of the mind and body protecting itself, sadly however these avoidance strategies do not serve you all the time. They hold you back from living and achieving.
Sinéad’s clinical position is straightforward: symptoms are intelligent. Anxiety, panic, avoidance and self-criticism are not faults in the system. They are the system doing what it once had to do.
That belief shapes how sessions run. There is no scripted programme, no set number of weeks, no technique applied because it is the technique she happens to use. The work is unfolds by what each person brings and how deep it needs to go.
You’re not broken. You’re not weak. Life unfolded, you were conditioned by your beliefs and experiences and lived life in accordance with that. Beginning with that awareness and understanding of your unique experience that is usually where positive growth begins.
“If symptoms were caused by the emotional mind, they must be resolved by the emotional mind, not the intellectual mind.”