Mentalese Counselling & Psychotherapy
Compassionate therapy services, crafted individually.
About
Una Le Meur is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist and the founder of Mentalese, a private counselling practice in Carlow offering in-person and online therapy across Ireland. With more than a decade of clinical experience in mental health, trauma, and addiction, she works integratively, combining several modalities. Una holds an MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling from the University of Roehampton, and brings senior clinical leadership experience and ongoing frontline work in Ireland's mental health sector into every Mentalese session.
My specialist area is anxiety, understanding it, easing it, and helping you find steady ground again. But my door is open to anyone carrying something that feels too heavy to carry alone. Whatever brings you here. Whether that be a worry, a loss, a relationship, or a feeling you can't quite name — you are welcome, and what you share stays between us. Every session is warm, confidential, and evidence-based: the quiet meeting of good science and real human listening.
AREAS OF SPECIALITY
Anxiety, Trauma, PTSD, Panic Attacks, Depression, Burn-out, Relationships, Separation, Loss, Grief, Parenting, Self Esteem, Guilt, Shame, Anger, Confidence, Self Worth, Abuse, Identity.
My Therapeutic Approach
I have been practising since 2011. My work is grounded in my training, in continuous learning that has never really stopped, and in the gift of sitting with people from every walk of life — including my own.
Person Centred Humanistic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Attachment Informed Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Polyvagal Theory
Somatic Awareness & Mindfulness
Counselling Services Tailored to You
Individual Therapy
One-to-one sessions, designed around you. Most of my clients come with anxiety in some form, but the space is open to whatever you need to bring. Our work together is private, unhurried, grounded in evidence — and paced entirely by you.
Family Counselling
Relationships shape almost everything we bring to therapy. For that reason, loved ones are often welcome to join your individual sessions when their presence would help. Standalone family sessions, for the whole family together, or apart are also offered, at home, online, or at a neutral venue.
Wellness Packages
A more structured way of working — for those who want a clear beginning, middle, and end. Packages combine a set number of sessions with a focused aim, whether that is an eight-week anxiety reset, an intensive day, or a tailored programme of your own.
Workplace Wellness
Workshops and group sessions for teams that are carrying a lot. Most organisations come to me when the pace has started to show — tired people, tense meetings, a quiet rise in absence. Our time together is practical and shaped to your team's specific pressures. Designed to give people permission to look after themselves so they can keep doing the work that matters.
Most people don't come to counselling when life falls apart. They come when they've been holding it together for too long. There is a quiet exhaustion that builds inside a person who has been capable over time, for too many people, with too little pause. Counselling is not where you fall apart, it is where you finally get to set something down.
“Mentalese is the practice I built to do the work I most want to do: slow, private, unhurried, and grounded in what we now know about trauma, attachment, and the body”.
Latest News
How Online Therapy Is Widening Access to Mental Health Support in Ireland A look at how online therapy is quietly changing who can access support in Ireland — crossing geography, waiting lists, and the stigma of small-town life.
Mindfulness Techniques That Complement Talk Therapy Five simple, trauma-informed practices you can use between sessions to settle an anxious nervous system and deepen the work you do in therapy.
Signs You Might Benefit From Therapy The seven quiet signs that it might be time to talk to someone — especially when anxiety has become the background hum of your days.
Let’s Keep In Touch
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