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Dr. Colm O'Connor
Clinical Psychologist

Specialist in On-line & Face-to-face Marriage & Couples Therapy
Author, Clinical Psychologist and Couples Therapist with 30 years specialist experience in marriage counselling, personality assessments, communication disorders, infidelity, domestic abuse, etc


Marriage Counselling & Couples Therapy

Marriage & Couples Counselling with Dr. Colm involves an initial assessment and then, if appropriate, signing up to a couples therapy treatment module of 5-10 sessions to address and resolve the identified issues.
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Dr. Colm Specializes in Couples Therapy

 ​With 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Colm is a registered clinical psychologist and marital psychotherapist who specializes in Marriage/Couples therapy and assessments.  He completed his clinical internships at Lutheran General Hospital in Chicago and has post-graduate qualifications in Clinical Psychology & Applied Psychology.
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Advantages of On-Line Sessions

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So many couples, find it impossible to co-ordinate everything to get to a clinician's office because of where they live, the time travel, childcare needs, work schedules, and time-stress, .  Even when they can, the level of co-ordination and domestic management necessary to get to an appointment ensures that the cost of getting there often outweighs the benefits of having been there.  For these reasons Colm has developed and offers on-line couples therapy which ensures that couples can avail of counselling and advice without the burden and prohibitive hassle of trying to find someone in the right location and having to co-ordinate everything. 

30 Years Clinical Expertise

Over his 30 years of specialist work in Ireland and the US.  Dr. Colm is the former Clinical Director of the Cork Marriage Counselling Center;  the founder of the Cork Domestic Violence Project 1992;  Co-founder of the Irish Association for Agency-based Counselling 2009; and was appointed by successive ministers to the Board of the Family Support Agency in Ireland.
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Books & Publications

Dr. Colm has written three books published by Gill & McMillan on couples relationships, happiness, and imagination entitled The Courage to Love; The Courage to Be Happy; and The Awakening.  He has published research and journal articles on Marital Breakdown and Domestic Abuse, and has had hundreds of newspaper articles printed on  family psychology.

Media

Colm has appeared many times on national radio and television including Prime Time, Six-One news, the Marian Finucane show, Ryan Tubridy, Brendan O'Connor, Matt Cooper, as well as TV3 and RTÉ morning and afternoon shows. Colm has also presented over 100  professional seminars on family and marriage psychology .

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Office location:
​9 Liberty Street, Cork City.
                         
Sessions are by appointment only.