Barry Costello

Clontarf Therapy

Barry is an Integrative Counsellor and a fully qualified mindfulness
practitioner with many years’ experience working in the therapy
setting.

He is a fully accredited member of the Addiction Counsellors of
Ireland and the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland and adheres to the code of ethics of both organisations. He has also held senior roles in organisations and worked fulltime for many years with one of Irelands leading treatment centres, the Rutland Centre Along with other trainings, Barry holds a MSc in Mindfulness Based Interventions. He also runs Mindfulness Based groups for the general public, Self-care for staff teams and people in recovery. He is also a core member of the faculty running the MSc in Mindfulness Based Interventions, in the Dept. Psychology, University College Dublin. He is co-author of the reduce the use program and lead author of the RecoverMe, a program designed to support people in making changes in their lives.

Barry’s approach to counselling draws on wide range of models to help integrate and gain greater awareness of the mind, the body and the heart, how these are relating to each other and to the world around them. His approach is rooted in compassion and meeting the person where they are at. This happens by creating a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment where people feel supported to work through their difficulties, at their own pace. Allowing a space where it is safe to be compassionate, self-awareness can be nourished, and people can reach their full potential. As human beings each of us can get stuck or feel like we are in choppy waters, having somewhere to talk about these difficulties allows us the freedom to explore and make changes that we want in our lives and in doing so we are ‘becoming our own light
house’, giving us a much broader view of what is happening in our
lives.
Barry works in the following areas:
Addiction counselling:

Substance misuse and behavioural addictions,
family members affected by addiction, adult children of family members with addiction
General counselling:

Stress, Trauma, Depression and Low-mood, anxiety,
family issues, loss, bereavement

Mindfulness:

Can be offered one to one, workshops or extended groups.
Barry has extensive training and experience delivering mindfulness in
different settings, such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,
Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery, Mindfulness-Based Self-Care,
Mindfulness-Based Emotional Intelligence and can also design programmes to meet the needs of all groups or organisations.
Couples Counselling: Barry has trained in couples counselling and draws from the ‘Gottman method’ and Sue Johnston’s Emotionally Focused Therapy ‘Hold me tight’. Both models are evidenced based and designed to support couples to begin to ‘see’ each other again and build on their relationship.