{"id":700402,"date":"2026-06-12T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700402\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:45:11","slug":"westmeath-psychotherapist-warns-of-gambling-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700402\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmeath Psychotherapist Warns Of Gambling Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 12 June 2026 14:42\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a2c0cb05ad26.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            He is sharing his own experience to raise awareness.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Westmeath psychotherapist is warning of the dangers of gambling addiction, by sharing his own experience with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Coulter was first exposed to betting as a teenager when he placed and won his first one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Online websites became a catalyst for his addiction throughout his 20s, with him resorting to using his college income for bets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He eventually went into treatment to overcome it, studied psychotherapy and opened his own business, Serenity Therapy, last year in Moate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Coulter says he credits his family for helping him through recovery:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 12 June 2026 14:42 He is sharing his own experience to raise awareness. A Westmeath psychotherapist is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[30260,43370,97,114949,114947,983,42387,259,260,45155,114946,3,23671,3813,114948],"class_list":["post-700402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-health","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700402","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=700402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}