Counselling and Pyschotherapy Services
is a non-medical approach that borrows from the analytical tradition but is not limited to a single method of creating change. An intense client-therapist encounter characterizes a pyschotherapeutic relationship, which often involves the examination of deeply emotional experiences, destructive behavior patterns and serious mental issues.
The "journey" of holistic counselling is an intensive, sometimes challenging and always exciting process of self discovery: a profound freedom to choose a life path and see it to fruition.
Anam Kara
is a Gaelic word meaning "Soul Friend". It symbolizes a spiritual friendship that is not affected by time, distance, or separation. In the old Celtic tradition, the Anam Kara was someone you can share your innermost self, mind and heart. This soul friendship was a act of recognition and belonging - helping us return to the heart of our spirit.
We have chosen this name as a symbol for the "circle of belonging" - that inner friendship that embraces nature, divinity, spirit and human nature as one.
Soul Friends- Anam Kara
Celtic soul mates- the Celtic spiritual belief of souls connecting and bonding.
In Celtic Spiritual tradition, it is believed that the soul radiates all about the physical body, what some refer to as an aura. When you connect with another person and become completely open and trusting with that individual, your two souls begin to flow together. Should such a deep bond be formed, it is said you have found your Anam Cara or soul friend.
Your Anam Cara always accepts you as you truly are, holding you in beauty and light. In order to appreciate this relationship, you must first recognize your own inner light and beauty. This is not always easy to do. The Celts believed that forming an Anam Cara friendship would help you to awaken your awareness of your own nature and experience the joys of others.
According to John O'Donahue, an accomplished Irish poet, philosopher and Catholic priest, "...You are joined in an ancient and eternal union with humanity that cuts across all barriers of time, convention, philosophy and definition. When you are blessed with an anam cara, the Irish believe, you have arrived at that most sacred place: home."
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
