In the latest Off The Couch podcast from the Irish Council for Psychotherapy, clinical psychoanalyst Marie Walshe and clinical psychotherapist Stephanie Regan talk about inertia in relationships and how to face problems positively.

The conversation then goes on to establish why relationship psychotherapy can become as - and if not more - important than career coaching, and also how to address fear, anxiety and a lack of communication.

In this episode, clinical psychoanalyst Rob Weatherill and clinical psychotherapist Stephanie Regan explain what psychoanalysis is, who needs it and how it can help individuals to face their demons.

It's for those who want to know how the pieces of their whole life story fit together, the past and the present as well as their interior and exterior lives. 

Whilst psychoanalysis is certainly not about immediate improvement or a quick fix, more so, it's how have you come to be where you are. 

Rob believes that so many of us are strangers to ourselves and we have become programmed to be estranged from ourselves. Psychoanalysis looks at the culture people are born into, the family and the extended family.

When it comes to the subject of sexual abuse there are many layers that need to be gently and safely unpicked because trust has often been compromised, manipulation could have happened and grooming taken place. 

Clinical psychotherapists Stephanie Regan and Eileen Finnegan discuss that when the after-effects are untangled and the memory is triggered, facing the outcomes can be done positively, with the right psychotherapist.