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Dear Enda: Our 16-year-old has just told us that he is transgender

Enda Murphy, psychotherapist and director of SeeMe.ie, responds to a reader whose 16-year-old has just come out as transgender.

FEATURES 4 August 2021

Mental Health: ‘I was a criminal for being me’… LGBT and the gay farmer

To mark the beginning of Pride month, psychotherapist and director of SeeMe.ie Enda Murphy talks about the need to embrace diversity in all its forms in the farming community.

HEALTH 4 August 2021

Agony Uncle: my son is a street angel, but a house devil

Psychotherapist and director of SeeMe.ie Enda Murphy advises a mother who is struggling with her son’s mood swings.

FEATURES 4 August 2021

Mental Health: overcoming gut-wrenching anxiety

That nervous tension you feel when you go into a social situation is social anxiety. It’s perfectly normal and has to do with how we want to fit in and be accepted. Psychotherapist Enda Murphy writes

FEATURES 4 August 2021

Do you really need friends? Yes but who they are depends on gender, age and need

The reasons why we make and have and keep friends varies and changes throughout different stages of our life. Psychotherapist Enda Murphy speaks about making and keeping friends in this month’s mental health feature.

HEALTH 4 August 2021

Mental Health: ploughing can be meditative if you are living in the moment

Whether it is ploughing a field or saying the Rosary, both help us find peace in the moment. They help us stop and focus on the journey, writes psychotherapist Enda Murphy.

HEALTH 4 August 2021

Learning to cope with health anxiety

A patient of psychotherapist Enda Murphy suffers from health anxiety. He advises on how to let go of trying to be in control of things she had no control over.

HEALTH 4 August 2021

Irish food and drink exports to Japan and South Korea

In the first of a series of interviews with Bord Bia offices around the world, Phelim O’Neill talks to Joe Moore, who heads up the office in Japan and is also responsible for South Korea.

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