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GAIL GROSSMAN FREYNE
LL.B. (MELB), Ph.D. (DUB)
GAIL is a Family Therapist and Mediator, working in private practice at the Elmwood Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre in Dublin.
This practice, of which she was a founding member, was formerly known as the Family Therapy and Counselling Centre and was established over twenty years ago. She practiced as a Solicitor for many years, both in Australia and the United States.
Her published books and articles have considered the questions of Systemic Therapy, gender and power in the marital relationship and women’s ordination in the Catholic Church.
She teaches on the Foundation year in Family Therapy for the Clanwilliam Institute and the Mater Hospital and provides the seminar on homosexuality for the Masters programme. She also teaches the Ecofeminism and Theology component for the M.A. in Theology and Ecology, Lampeter University, Wales.
In the wider European context, she is advisor to Catholics for Free Choice. She is married with two daughters.
GAIL GROSSMAN FREYNE
LL.B. (MELB), Ph.D. (DUB)
ELMWOOD COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY CENTRE
The Context for Change
The Context for Change
Who Am I?
GAIL is a Family Therapist and Mediator, working in private practice at the Elmwood Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre in Dublin.
This practice, of which she was a founding member, was formerly known as the Family Therapy and Counselling Centre and was established over twenty years ago. She practiced as a Solicitor for many years, both in Australia and the United States.
Her published books and articles have considered the questions of Systemic Therapy, gender and power in the marital relationship and women’s ordination in the Catholic Church.
She teaches on the Foundation year in Family Therapy for the Clanwilliam Institute and the Mater Hospital and provides the seminar on homosexuality for the Masters programme. She also teaches the Ecofeminism and Theology component for the M.A. in Theology and Ecology, Lampeter University, Wales.
In the wider European context, she is advisor to Catholics for Free Choice. She is married with two daughters.
Contact Information
email: ggfreyne@eircom.net
phone: +353 87 2218020
phone: +353 87 2218020
When One Thing Leads to Another
People seek out people like me when one sad or hurtful event seems to lead to another. Hard times follow hard times. All the friends have been talked to; all the advice has been sought.
Now is the moment to seek for the answer that you already have inside yourself.
My task is to help you access that answer - not to give you an 'expert' opinion of my own.
If I claim to be expert at anything it is to keep the conversation alive. As you talk through the treadmill of ideas you have been running in your mind, you can give up the old solutions that haven't worked and find a new way to approach your difficulties.
New ideas lead to new behaviours and if you know anything at all it is that you don't want to keep doing what you have been doing.
Our conversations become your context for change.
Now is the moment to seek for the answer that you already have inside yourself.
My task is to help you access that answer - not to give you an 'expert' opinion of my own.
If I claim to be expert at anything it is to keep the conversation alive. As you talk through the treadmill of ideas you have been running in your mind, you can give up the old solutions that haven't worked and find a new way to approach your difficulties.
New ideas lead to new behaviours and if you know anything at all it is that you don't want to keep doing what you have been doing.
Our conversations become your context for change.
Publications
- Questions for the 21st Century, ed. Mary Hembrow Schneider
- Care, Justice & Gender: A New Harmony for Family Values (Veritas, Dublin 2006.)
Followers
Blog Archive
Family Therapy & Counselling Centre
The Family Therapy & Counselling Centre
The Family Therapy & Counselling Centre was founded by Gail and three other colleagues in 1987. Any day now it is to take on new life as the Elmwood Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre with three new colleagues.
Psychotherapy Networker
The Psychotherapy Networker
This is my preferred journal in the professional field of Family Therapy.
Marriage Equality
Marriage Equality
Two friends of mine, Anne Louise Gilligan and Katherine Zappone, have undertaken the task of seeing that marriage equality will become a reality in the Irish Republic. They currently await a date for the hearing of their case in the Supreme Court.
Maybe one day soon, we will join the State of Vermont in recognizing the right of all citizens to marry.
Maybe one day soon, we will join the State of Vermont in recognizing the right of all citizens to marry.
Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches
If you are interested in discussions and debate of all the current issues in social justice and ethics then this is a website you should have in your bookmarks.
Catholics for Choice
Catholics for Choice
This is an organization that is dedicated to all the issues relating to social justice and ethics that are of particular interest to Catholics. As this country of Ireland is still predominately Catholic this is the place to find articles that are both scholarly and popular that you will always find informative whatever your biases - and we all have those, especially in areas that relate to sexuality and reproduction.
This website will take you around the world to find out what is happening, especially to those who do not enjoy the bulk of this world's goods or hold the power to protect themselves and their children.
This website will take you around the world to find out what is happening, especially to those who do not enjoy the bulk of this world's goods or hold the power to protect themselves and their children.