{"id":307306,"date":"2025-11-22T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307306\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:53:17","slug":"former-wicklow-banker-makes-career-u-turn-into-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307306\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wicklow banker makes career u-turn\u00a0into\u00a0therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Psychotherapist Tony Whelan, in Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bp therapist .jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Psychotherapist Tony Whelan, in Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A former Wicklow banker who has had management roles at AIB, Bank of Scotland and Anglo Irish has just opened a new counselling and psychotherapy practice, following years of personal struggle, when he realised he \u201chad to do something or it wasn&#8217;t going to end well\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Anthony Whelan from Bray now holds a Masters Degree in clinical psychotherapy, and has started a practice in the town offering counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the South Dublin and north Wicklow areas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psychotherapist Tony Whelan, in Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson. A former Wicklow banker who has had management roles at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260,159198],"class_list":{"0":"post-307306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-tom-galvin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}