Empathic Exchange
Empathic Exchange
Podcast Description
Welcome to Empathic Exchange, a podcast hosted by a qualified therapist and made to give listeners easy-to-understand insights on important mental health challenges. Each episode centres around an honest and thought-provoking conversation with guests sharing their stories and experiences — From mental health professionals & advocates to people with lived experiences.Our goal is to help break the stigma & foster empathy by creating a platform for authentic discussions about mental health challenges, triumphs, and everything in between. Join us as we explore the human side of mental well-being, helping you to better understand the complexities of mental health in today's world. Our podcast is hosted by Dan O'Mahony a qualified Counsellor & Psychotherapist & lecturer at PCI College - Ireland's leading provider of education in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, & mental health.To find out more visit: www.pcicollege.ie
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The podcast focuses on significant mental health challenges and the human experience, with topics such as neurodiversity, anxiety management, and emotional well-being. Episodes like 'Finding Strength in Difference' with Rachel Ennis and 'Anxiety the Frenemy' with Karen O'Neill delve into storytelling and share practical strategies for coping with mental health issues, promoting understanding and empathy throughout the discussions.
Welcome to Empathic Exchange, a podcast hosted by a qualified therapist and made to give listeners easy-to-understand insights on important mental health challenges.
Each episode centres around an honest and thought-provoking conversation with guests sharing their stories and experiences — From mental health professionals & advocates to people with lived experiences.
Our goal is to help break the stigma & foster empathy by creating a platform for authentic discussions about mental health challenges, triumphs, and everything in between.
Join us as we explore the human side of mental well-being, helping you to better understand the complexities of mental health in today’s world.
Our podcast is hosted by Dan O’Mahony a qualified Counsellor & Psychotherapist & lecturer at PCI College – Ireland’s leading provider of education in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, & mental health.
To find out more visit: www.pcicollege.ie
This Episode is in honour of:
Alice and her Special Babies in the Sheridan & Hagan family.
For all the Women who felt Unseen, Unheard in their immeasurable loss, for you, your beautiful babies, and what should have been.
Dan's Cousin, his wife and their daughter – Sydney Brennan – Born sleeping on the 30th of March 2026.
In this episode of Empathic Exchange, Dan sits with Alice as we follow her deeply personal story of loss, the quiet, enduring grief that has shaped a life long after the moments themselves. A story of a profound losses, trauma, and the crushing loneliness that followed when that loss was met by a world that did not want to listen. This is not a story of grief kept secret. It is the stories of grief that were shared, spoken, and brought into the open, only to be met with silence, discomfort, and emotional withdrawal. The loneliness of this loss was not just born from what was taken away, but from repeatedly encountering a society that could not bear to hear it.
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