Treatments Available at Sláinte Centre, Curracloe, Co. Wexford.

     Alice (086-2600761)

• Counselling & Psychotherapy - Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress being experienced, disatisfaction with life or loss of direction and purpose. Unlike a friend or relative, a counsellor is a professional who is trained to listen in an accepting and non-judgemental way. Pre-packaged solutions are not given, but the client is helped to find his/her own answers.
• CBT- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Alice has extensive training and vast experience using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps the client to change thoughts and behaviour in order to foster improved self-esteem and ability to cope with life.
• Clinical Supervision - For professionals from a range of work environments. Supervision is a formal and mutually agreed arrangement where work is discussed regularly with someone who is an experienced and competent practitioner who has experience of and training in the process of supervision. The supervisor aims to create a safe and trusting climate to enable maximum exploration and learning to occur. Supervision is an important support to people working in many fields and helps to prevent burnout.
• Reiki Healing - Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force e nergy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If our "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
• Talks for 6th class Primary students on (a) Alcohol and Drugs and (b) Sex and Relationships. Alice will travel to schools for a fee negotiable depending on distance.
• Home Visits - On request, Alice will arrange to do a home visit to offer counselling and emotional support for clients who are unable to drive or suffer from a disability.
• Transmission Meditation Group meets on Wednesday at 7.30-8.45 at Sláinte, Curracloe, Co.Wexford. Free of charge.

     Patrick (086-0857153)

• Massage Therapy - Massage therapy is recognized as one of the oldest methods of healing, with references in medical texts nearly 4,000 years old. In fact, Hippocrates, known as the "father of medicine," referenced massage when he wrote, in the 4 th century B.C.: "The physician must be acquainted with many things, and assuredly with rubbing ."
  Patrick McLoughlin is fully qualified in Remedial Massage and has twenty years experience helping people with muscle pains, strains and sports injuries.
• Hot Stone Massage - This type of massage uses heated volcanic stones to aid muscular relaxation and healing.
• Barber - Patrick is a qualified and experienced barber who offers all types of haircuts for men.
• Home Visits - For clients who are unable to travel, Patrick is available to visit a person's home to do theraputic message or men's haircuts & shaves.