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Whether therapy for people with ACoA syndrome and people growing up in dysfunctional families is for you depends on many factors. It is important how you experience your life, how you build relationships with others, whether you encounter problems and difficulties that are too much for you and you cannot cope with them.

If as a child:

you were raised in a family where a parent abused alcohol (or there were other addictions),

your parent moved away, abandoned the family or suffered from a chronic disease that significantly limited their functioning,

you experienced or witnessed violence in your family home,

you lacked emotional warmth,

you were in a family where the parent(s) did not cope with fulfilling parental roles (they were overprotective or withdrawn, focused on themselves and their work, the needs of children were ignored, where there was a lack of support and acceptance).

And if now, as an adult woman or adult man:

  • you have difficulty building lasting, deep relationships,

  • you feel like you don't belong to any group,

  • you experience difficulties in dealing with anger (you suppress it or explode inappropriately to the situation),

  • you feel lonely even in relationships with loved ones,

  • you have low self-esteem,

  • you feel like you don't fit in with the world,

  • you think you experience situations differently than others,

  • you demand a lot (too much) from yourself,

  • you experience difficulty making choices,

  • you are in an addictive relationship (where there is violence, drugs, substance abuse, etc.)

  • you have difficulty returning to the past, you are struggling with your own biography that you do not want to fully accept,

  • you feel like something is missing, no matter where you are in life (the metaphor of the “leaky basket” – no matter what you put in it, it never feels full) ……then a therapeutic group for adults with ACoA/ACDF Syndrome may be the place for you.

 

The good news is that the practice of psychotherapy has a very high recovery rate for "Adult Children" from difficult families.

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"It is not easy to find happiness within yourself, but it cannot be found anywhere else"

ACoA PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP

Agnes Repplier, The Treasure Chest

Where?

Zoom platform, real-time online meeting.

When?

Saturdays, 10.00am – 12.15pm Irish time (with a 15 minute break).

How long?

1 year

Number of participants

The group has a maximum of 12 people and is led by two experienced therapists.

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  • you will get to know yourself through the experience of relationships with other people in the group,

  • you will recognize the mechanisms of attitudes and behavioural patterns from childhood,

  • you will enter the process of changing these patterns and you will get tools to deal with what hurts and hinders you in your current, adult life.

  • you will learn to notice your emotions and express them in a safe way,

  • you will feel that others are experiencing similar problems to you,

  • you will receive feedback that will allow you to build relationships in a more satisfying way.

If you need more information to make a decision about joining the group, we invite you to read a fragment of the book by

Yalom I., Leszcz M.: "Group psychotherapy. Theory and practice" - see here

Benefits of participating in an ACoA group:

If you cannot live fully in the present because something from the past is constantly resonating within you and subsequent life experiences are experienced in the context of traces from childhood –

Come, we will talk and plan specific steps.

If you are interested in this form of therapy, please contact us:

email - info@ckudublin.org

Phone/ WhatsApp: + 353 876 494 555

At the CKU Center, you can also take advantage of other forms of therapy and personal development.

See here

Katarzyna Kozlowska
Katarzyna Kozłowska

Pedagogue, systemic psychotherapist,

IFS (Internal Family System) practitioner

Leaders of thegroup

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Piotr Bucinski

Psychologist, certified psychotherapist

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