Orla Kirby, MNCH (Reg.), HPD

Overview

I specialise in helping people to move away from severe Anxiety, OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and cPTSD, so that they can more easily create the life they want to create. I am interested in helping people to learn how to use their own imaginations differently, in a rich, warm and creative way. Part of therapy work with me also involves learning how to deeply soothe your own nervous system, so that you can access a deep sense of peacefulness underneath or around everything and anything else. And I can also help you learn how to powerfully redirect your thinking and thought patterns, particularly where it comes to releasing and letting go of unhelpful thought patterns, so that it is easier for you to direct your time and attention towards what is most useful, valuable and/or enjoyable.

By ‘severe Anxiety’, I mean a level of Anxiety where you are experiencing frequent or intense panic attacks, or where you have a very high level of anxiety or panic each morning, or where the anxiety is majorly impacting your quality of life and significantly impacting the choices you make each day and each week.

I can also help with recovery from depression, phobias, addiction, and the release of stored emotion or trauma from very negative experiences in the past.

I am autistic and I have ADHD myself, and I enjoy working with other neurodivergent people as clients, and have a lot of experience in adjusting therapeutic models to suit autistic people and people with ADHD in particular. I am always happy to adjust ways of working to suit the needs of a particular client when it comes to neurodivergence and also to disability.

I have been doing therapy work for 8 years now, and I have a great deal of experience working with adults and also with teenagers and children (age 7 upwards).

I work using a combination of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), and Time Line Therapy.

If you want me to work with your child or teenager, I offer two free calls at the beginning – one where I just talk to you, and one where I talk to you and your child together, or just the child on their own if that’s what they / you want and if it’s an older child or teenager.

If you want to work with me as an adult, I offer one free call at the beginning. The purpose of these calls is to find out if we are a good fit for each other, and of course there is plenty of opportunity for you to ask questions about the therapy process and what’s involved.

Either way, the first step is to book in that first initial free call, which you can do via my website.