Cork Counselling Services

Cork Counselling Services is committed to providing professional counselling and psychotherapy to all regardless of capacity to pay, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, socio economic background, ability or race. We are committed to providing professional training which reflects best practice nationally and internationally. We provide services to approx. 350 clients per year, some of the most disenfranchised individuals in our community. Furthermore, we train up to 80 students per annum.

Location:

Cork

Established:

1982

Type of organisation:

NGO/ community-based organisation/ charity

Focus

  • Mental health
  • People in vulnerable situations e.g. domestic violence.
  • Services for older people
  • Services for people with disabilities
  • Services for Travellers and ethnic minorities
  • Social inclusion
  • Education and training
  • Health services and health promotion

Interest

  • Development of education and training materials and programmes
  • European learning networks and exchanges
  • Community outreach and engagement
  • Research

EU Project Experience

No experience

EU Funding Goals

We are open to working with others and to sharing ideas for mutually beneficial projects.

We would like to engage with others who share similar values and goals.

We are very interested in research projects, shared learning opportunities and education/training creation opportunities.

Strengths

We are experts in counselling and psychotherapy. We are innovative leaders in providing community based counselling and psychotherapy.

We are the longest standing IACP (National Accrediting Body) accredited training providers so we pride ourselves on the development and delivery of quality training.

We work specifically with marginalised individuals. Our training is informed by our community based practice and vice versa. We see approx. 350 clients per year and have approx. 80 students per year training at degree level. This gives us untapped capacity to develop further training, conduct research, evaluate services etc.

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Contact Name:

Betty Quinlan

Job Title:

Academic Registrar

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