If you are new to my work, welcome.

I'm Cath Counihan.

I am a psychotherapist, speaker and educator and host of the popular weekly mental health podcast 'Grow Yourself Up'. Many of us did not get our needs met in childhood and are not aware of this until we become parents ourselves and are plunged into a journey more painful than we ever imagined. I am a passionate advocate for all of us learning to stop self abandoning, which in the patriarchal society we live in often seems necessary. I am curious and enthusiastic about therapy, life, beauty, joy, why many of us find receiving so hard (clue: it has to do with our childhoods), creativity, healing trauma and our nervous systems and how we can learn to live with more love and more ease. Many of us have learnt to overwork and overgive as standard, perfectionism seems the only way to be. I am here to interrupt all that.