As lockdown starts to ease and families begin to meet again, Stephanie Regan takes a closer look at the importance of grandparents in the family dynamic. From passing on knowledge and experience to supporting new parents, their influence is felt throughout the generations. She and Ivan discuss the positive influences not just of grandparents on their grandchildren, but vice versa, and tackles the tricky subject of when advice becomes interference!

Stephanie Regan, clinical psychotherapist, continued our series “The Family”, where we’ve covered single parenting, same sex couples, blended families and more. This week she talked about adoption - who can adopt, who can be adopted, getting access to information and documentation decades after adoption etc.

Stephanie Regan continues her series about the modern Irish family, and today she examined fostering. Everything from how you sign up, the potential challenges, the love, the heartbreak and the realities of fostering.

Clinical Psychotherapist Stephanie Regan joined Ivan on this evening's edition of the Hard Shoulder to continue our brand new series running every Monday about the changing face of the Irish families.  This week Stephanie talked about blended families, which often come about through broken relationships.

Clinical Psychotherapist Stephanie Regan joined Ivan to kick off a brand new series we will be running every Monday on The Hard Shoulder on the changing face of Irish families.  Each week we will be looking at different aspects of family life and family roles. This week it was all about motherhood and fatherhood.

Body language expert Judi James talks Ivan through what body language signals we give off when a relationship is going well, or is breaking down.

Every week Ivan is joined by Clinical Psychotherapist Stephanie Regan for our weekly relationship slot. This week Stephanie advises a listener who wrote into thehardshoulder@newstalk.com.  The Listener explains how after visiting the family home of her current partner for the first time she realized that she had previously been on a Tinder date with her partners dad and is struggling to decide if she should tell her partner or keep it a secrete.   ILLUSTRATION - Auf einem Smartphone ist am 18.02.2014 in Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg) das Logo der App Tinder zu sehen. Photo by: Franziska Kraufmann/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

The kids are off school, we’ve finally got a bit of warm weather over the last few weeks and holiday season is definitely upon us. But what about holidays for couples - are they always the relaxing break that’s anticipated?  Stephanie Regan is a clinical psychotherapist and our relationships guru joins Ivan to discuss why a holiday is not always the magic fix for a relationship.

In this Mondays relationship slot Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry at TCD and author of "The Doctor Who Sat For A Year" joins Ivan to discuss  Commitment phobia  and why some people simply do not want to commit.  

They say that a dog is mans best friend but just how important is a persons relationship with their pet? Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry at TCD and author of "The Doctor Who Sat For A Year"  joins Ivan to discuss how important our relationships with our pets can be.

Our relationship guru Stephanie Regan addressed a listener's issue, where they are looking for advice on how to break it to their partner about their STI. They're worried about the impact it might have on the relationship.

This week, Stephanie Regan told Ivan how many people stay single, and why that is the case. Ivan reckons that there are a lot of successful people out there who are just struggling to find the right one.

Every week Stephanie Regan Clinical Psychotherapist joins Ivan to give her advice on all kinds of relationship dilemmas and listener queries. This week she discusses toxic relationships, how to recognize them and how to break out of bad relationship patterns.

Every Monday on The Hard Shoulder Ivan is joined by Stephanie Regan Clinical Psychotherapist to give an insight into relationship's and offer listeners advice.  This week Stephanie discusses keeping secrets from family members and how damaging it can be when a loved one chooses to hide something from you.

Ivans weekly relationship slot

Relationship Slot with Stephanie Regan

Our resident clinical psychotherapist Dr Stephanie Regan tackles some of the relationship challenges with our partners, families, co-workers and friends.

Our resident clinical psychotherapist Dr Stephanie Regan tackles some of the relationship challenges with our partners, families, co-workers and friends.

Our resident clinical psychotherapist Dr Stephanie Regan tackles some of the relationship challenges with our partners, families, co-workers and friends.

Our resident clinical psychotherapist Dr Stephanie Regan tackles some of the relationship challenges with our partners, families, co-workers and friends.