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  • About Karl
  • Must Reads
    • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
    • Homecoming: Reclaiming and championing your inner child
  • Disclaimer
  • Services/Fees
  • Contact Karl
  • Family Estrangment Support Group
Interview

Overcoming a midlife crisis – The Elaine Show (Virgin Media TV)

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July 23, 2019by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Coping with Family Estrangement: Managing Funerals/Family Sickness

I speak a lot of the many experiences and difficulties of estrangement, but the one I come back the most often is the deep sense uncertainty because it is so consistent across everyone who I’ve spoken to. But why exactly …

May 23, 2019by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Writing to estranged family members

There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively.

Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within …

May 6, 2019by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

7 ways to ‘Park’ Family Estrangement

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December 25, 2018by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Family, Christmas And The Importance Of Stage Management

The media is rife at the moment with articles on the difficulty of going home to visit a dysfunctional (whatever that means to you) family over Christmas.  

You can find my latest contribution to one such article for the …

December 25, 2018by Karl Melvin
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Depression, Social Issues, Toxic Family

What exactly is family estrangement?

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November 4, 2018by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Coping with family estrangement over Christmas

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October 16, 2018by Karl Melvin
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Toxic Family

Managing a toxic family over christmas

t was 4 am. Joan woke up as usual to check her phone. A chronic worrier, she was always on high alert, unable to relax for fear that something terrible might happen to someone in the family. This time she …

December 28, 2017by Karl Melvin
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Anxiety, Self Esteem, Social Issues

Living in FEAR

ne aspect of personal growth is re-reflecting on lessons learned and area’s of our lives where we had moments of clarity but got pulled back into our unique version of “normal”.

From expert to beginner, I think this is true …

December 21, 2017by Karl Melvin
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Personal Development, Social Issues

Armchair experts: Is it time to stop advising and start honoring?

you think I should be on anti-depressants?” a client recently asked.

I was a little taken back as we had worked for months and the therapy was focused on problems with the clients boyfriend. She had given no indication that …

December 11, 2017by Karl Melvin
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My name is Karl Melvin and I’m a Psychotherapist based in Dublin. I have created this site to help people detach from the toxic people, emotions and situations which are holding them back from living their lives their way.

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