Please Note: We are currently accepting new clients for Online Therapy only. In-person appointments in Walkinstown are currently full.
Addiction Counselling in Dublin 12 & Online Across Ireland
Feeling stuck in patterns you want to change, but finding it hard to do it alone?
Addiction can quietly take over, affecting your relationships, work, physical health, and emotional well-being. Many people find themselves caught in exhausting cycles they never intended to create, feeling entirely unsure how to begin breaking them.
Addiction counselling provides a completely confidential, supportive, and safe space to understand the mechanics of your struggles and begin moving toward meaningful, lasting change.
Available in-person in Dublin 12 and online across Ireland.
Understanding Addiction: When to Seek Professional Support
You may be thinking about addiction counselling if alcohol, drugs, gambling, or a specific behavior has started to occupy more space, time, and mental energy in your life than you want it to.
You might recognize your own experiences in some of these common signs:
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Finding it incredibly hard to stop, moderate, or cut down on your own
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Using alcohol, substances, or behaviors to cope with stress, anxiety, or difficult emotions
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Feeling trapped in cycles of relapse, resolutions, and repeated unhelpful patterns
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Experiencing deep waves of shame, guilt, secrecy, or a frightening loss of control
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Noticing a negative impact on your relationships, workplace performance, health, or daily routine
Many people who reach out are not sure where or how to begin.
Acknowledging what is happening and speaking openly about it in a safe room is often the most profound first step toward a different life.
An Integrative Approach to Addiction Recovery
Combining Lived Experience with Practical Behaviour Change
My work with addiction is informed by professional training, clinical experience, and personal lived experience of addiction and recovery.
This gives me an understanding of both the emotional and practical challenges that can come with trying to change long-established patterns and build a different life.
Addiction counselling is completely free of judgment or blame.
In our sessions, we look at the mechanics of behaviour change through an integrative lens, pulling from specialized frameworks to give you practical tools:
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Addiction: We map out your unique behavioural loops, pinpointing the specific situational triggers, environmental cues, and thought processes that lead to use. By recognising these patterns early, we can build clear strategies to disrupt the chain before an action is taken.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Recovery: We focus heavily on managing intense cravings and uncomfortable emotional states without automatically giving in to them. ACT teaches you how to tolerate internal discomfort, drop the exhausting struggle with urges, and make choices aligned with the life you actually want to build.
How Therapy Can Help You Overcome Addiction
Therapy can help you understand the emotional, psychological, and behavioural patterns connected to addiction.
Over time, addiction counselling may help you:
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understand triggers and repeated patterns
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explore the emotional difficulties underneath addictive behaviours
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develop healthier ways of coping
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strengthen motivation for change
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rebuild confidence and self-trust
Change does not have to happen all at once. Therapy offers a supportive space where progress can happen at a pace that feels manageable and realistic.
Specialised Addiction Counselling Services
Alcohol Addiction Counselling
Alcohol can sometimes begin as a way of coping with stress, anxiety, emotional pain, or difficult life circumstances. Over time, it can start to create new problems in relationships, work, health, and self-esteem.
Alcohol counselling gives you a space to explore your relationship with alcohol, understand what may be driving it, and begin developing healthier ways of coping.
Drug Addiction Counselling
People use drugs for many different reasons. Sometimes it is about escape, relief, numbness, or coping. Over time, what starts as a way of managing can become something that feels difficult to control.
Drug counselling can help you explore the role substances are playing in your life and begin working toward meaningful change and recovery.
Gambling Addiction Counselling
Gambling addiction can have serious emotional, financial, and relational effects. Many people struggling with gambling feel caught in cycles of hope, loss, secrecy, and shame that can be difficult to break alone.
Counselling for gambling addiction provides a safe space to understand these patterns, rebuild control, and move toward a more stable and balanced life.
Therapy Fees & Session Structure
To ensure complete transparency before we begin working together, here is a clear breakdown of the practical investment and structure for counselling sessions:
Note: The our sliding scale, payment collection and session cancellation policies do not apply your initial therapy sessions. Your initial session will be to explore the difficulty you would like support with, and for you to see if continued therapy with Macánta Psychotherapy is a fit for you.
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Individual Session Fee: €60 per session.
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Sliding Scale Options: I maintain a limited number of reduced-rate places for students, low-income individuals, or those experiencing genuine financial hardship. Please feel free to inquire about availability during your initial consultation.
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Session Duration: 50 minutes.
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Frequency: Sessions are typically held on a weekly basis, providing consistency to support your progress.
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Payment & Cancellation: Payments are made the day before each session. A standard 48-hour cancellation policy applies to protect both of our schedules.
There are no hidden costs or long-term financial commitments required upfront.
We will review our work together regularly to ensure you are getting the exact support you need.
Your Therapy Options: In-Person or Online
Online addiction counselling across Ireland
Online sessions are available for individuals across Ireland.
Many people find online counselling easier to access and easier to stay consistent with, while still experiencing a strong therapeutic connection and supportive environment.
Addiction counselling in Dublin 12
Macánta Psychotherapy offers addiction counselling in Dublin 12 in a private and confidential therapy setting at Walkinstown Greenhills Resource Centre.
For some people, meeting face to face provides a dedicated space away from everyday pressures where they can reflect more deeply and begin making meaningful changes.
Taking The First Step
Reaching out for support with an addiction or a habit that has gotten out of hand is often the most difficult part of the entire process.
It takes a massive amount of courage to break the silence, especially when shame, secrecy, or the fear of being judged may be whispering that you should just keep handling it alone.
You do not need to be entirely certain about your goals, you don't need to have reached a dramatic "rock bottom," and you don't need a flawless recovery plan ready before you make contact.
If things feel unsustainable, that is more than enough reason to reach out.
Frequently asked questions
Other Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
If you are exploring therapy, you may also want to learn more about the other counselling services available at Macánta Psychotherapy.
Support for anxiety, panic, worry, and ongoing stress.
Therapy for low-mood, loss of motivation, and emotional exhaustion.
Therapy for those experiencing burnout.
You can view a full list of all of our services on our Psychotherapy Services page.