Selected by Service: Bereavement Counselling/Support

Carlow

RAINBOWS ASKEA

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Askea Parish Community Centre, Askea
County: Carlow
Contact name: Sr. Joan Pierse
Phone number: 059-9142565
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 10.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to help children -  between the ages of 5 and 12 - to understand the grief caused by death, separation or other painful trauma, and thereby offer an opportunity for healing
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

FORWARD STEPS RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Chapel Lane, Tullow
County: Carlow
Phone number: 059-9152776
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • We provide counselling three days a week
  • The service is available free of charge but donations are accepted

TALK IT OVER (CARLOW)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Nampara, Killeshin Road
County: Carlow
Contact name: Mary C. Byrne / Rita Cassin
Phone number: 087-7662743 / 086-3364961
Opening Hours: Monday (listening night) 6.30pm - 9.30pm, appointments outside Mondays can be made
Other details:
  • Talk it Over aims to help the bereaved (by suicide and otherwise) by providing a confidential listening ear
  • Our service is a free and confidential one

CARLOW WOMEN'S AID

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Irishman's Centre, College St
County: Carlow
Contact name: The Co-ordinator
Phone number: 059-9173552 / 1800-444-944 (freephone)
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide support and information for women experiencing domestic violence in Carlow and its surrounding areas
  • Court accompaniment
  • Advocacy
  • Services are provided for free but donations are accepted

TEACH BHRíDE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Tullow
County: Carlow
Phone number: 059 9152465
Opening Hours: 8.00am to 9.00pm, Monday to Friday
Other details:

As a holistic education centre, Teach Bhríde aims to:

  • support people to live full and meaningful lives
  • develop the whole person and offer support in times of difficulty
  • support family life and promote better relationships among people
  • Other Counselling Services offered: Individuals, couples, family therapy, addictions, sexuality, bereavement, illness, self esteem, depression etc.
  • Courses in assertiveness, self-esteem, personal development, bereavement etc.
  • Counselling available on a sliding scale €5 - €45 per one hour session

Cavan

KINGSCOURT BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Parochial House, Kingscourt
County: Cavan
Contact name: Maureen Roddy
Phone number: 042-9667186
Opening Hours: Available on request through the parochial house
Other details:
  • We provide support to those who are bereaved in the parish of Kingscourt and its surrounding areas
  • A one-to-one service is available within a few days on request
  • Books and CDs are given to the bereaved (on loan)
  • Sympathy cards are issued following the death of a relative
  • 5 week healing programme runs each Lent and November
  • Remembrance mass in November
  • Information flyers are available in all churches, doctors' surgeries and community halls
  • Referrals to Rainbows, Living Links and counselling

CAVAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Main Street
County: Cavan
Contact name: Nuala McGovern
Phone number: 049-4371363
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 11.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Cavan Family Resource Centre embraces all people, irrespective of age, race, class, religion or politics.
  • We recognise and respect the many faces of family, and strive to support and enrich it in its many diverse forms through the services we provide
  • Mediation services
  • Psychotherapy/counselling services - available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay
  • Suicide bereavement support
  • Solus Nua - a programme for widowed, separated or divorced

TEACH OSCAIL FRC PROJECT

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Killymooney Drive
County: Cavan
Phone number: 049-4372730
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (office hours) - centre is usually open 6 days per week
Other details:
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

Clare

CONGRESS INFORMATION & OPPORTUNITIES CENTRE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Connolly House, Unit 7A, Elevation Business Park, Clonroad, Ennis
County: Clare
Contact name: Andrea Lynch
Phone number: 065-6841009
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • We will endeavour to improve the lives of the unemployed and other disadvantaged groups by providing a comprehensive service to assist the target group to access employment, training and other opportunities
  • Jobs Club - free service
  • FETAC accredited centre providing IT training
  • ECDL accredited up to ECDL expert
  • Suicide Bereavement group - free service

COMPASS

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 1 Bank Place, Ennis
County: Clare
Phone number: 065-6868766
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10.00am - 12.00pm (reception), counselling available by appointment
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to support and befriend those in need and to facilitate adults in making informed choices
  • We make available a safe and welcoming space to provide a confidential counselling service
  • The service is available for free

AMETHYST RESOURCE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ballybroghan, Killaloe
County: Clare
Contact name: Shirley A. Ward
Phone number: 061-374533
Opening Hours: 9.00am - 9.00pm Everyday (workshops on Saturday and Sunday)
Other details:
  • The main objectives of the organisation are the deployment of educational and therapeutic skills incorporating training in counselling, healing, interpersonal skills and personal growth
  • Counselling/Psychotherapy/Play Therapy offered in relation to adoption, fostering, suicide, sexual abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction and marriage break-up
  • Our services are available for free but payment is accepted having regard to the client's ability to pay                

SHANNON BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: SS John and Paul Presbytery, 4 Dún na Rí, Shannon
County: Clare
Contact name: Maureen O'Neill
Phone number: 061-362457
Other details:
  • The group aims to help and support every family in our parish who has suffered a bereavement, keeping in contact with them for as long as is necessary
  • The service is available for free

Cork

WESTGATE COUNSELLING SERVICES

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Westgate, West Village, Ballincollig
County: Cork
Contact name: Dervil Dunne
Phone number: 021-4873648 / 087-2027200
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Help with eating disorders and addictive behaviour
  • Anger Management
  • Family Therapy
  • Life Coaching
  • Child Play Therapy
  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
  • The service is available at a low cost, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay - we aim to provide counselling to all, regardless of means, and not to have a waiting list

LE CHEILE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 33 Fair Street, Mallow
County: Cork
Phone number: 022-42439
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (hours outside of these as required)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Mallow and surrounding areas in north Cork
  • Counselling service available at a low cost

THE GRACE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: South Square, Clonakilty
County: Cork
Contact name: Patricia O'Callaghan
Phone number: 087-2887649
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide a professional counselling service to whoever needs it, at an affordable price
  • Parenting surroundings
  • Active retirement club
  • Parent toddler group
  • Breast-feeding support group
  • Keep fit class
  • Supports for asylum seekers
  • Groups for people using mental health services
  • Our services are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

RAINBOWS KANTURK

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Coláiste Treasa, Kanturk
County: Cork
Contact name: Helen Vaughan / Margaret Farrell
Phone number: 029-50062
Other details:
  • We aim to help students within our school to come to terms with a loss whether through parental death or separation
  • Generally, one 40 minute class takes place per week but this does depend on the students and times do vary
  • The service is free to students
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

CORK COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 7 Fr Mathew Street
County: Cork
Phone number: 021-4274951 / 021-4273995
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm - closed for lunch 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • The Cork Counselling Centre aims to provide accessible counselling to all of the community, regardless of ability to pay, age, sex, ethnicity or sexual orientation
  • We provide outreach programmes for parents going through separation
  • We run a positive mental health/suicide prevention programme in schools for transition year students
  • Clients will never be refused due to inability to pay

IRISH FRIENDS OF SUICIDE BEREAVED

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Planning Office, St Finbarr's Hospital, Douglas Road
County: Cork
Contact name: Eleanor Higgins or Meg O'Gorman
Phone number: 021-4316722
Opening Hours: Helpline - Monday and Saturday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to offer grief support, friendship and understanding to people bereaved by suicide, in a safe and confidential setting, to enable people to work through their grief
  • Other services offered include:
                   - support nights every Wednesday night
                   - residential weekend work
                   - helpline
                   - 10 weeks facilitated grief group
                   - information talks on suicide and its aftermath
                   - visits to families
  • Our services are available at a low cost, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

CASTLEHAVEN NURSING ASSOCIATION

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o The Castle, Castletownshend
County: Cork
Contact name: Anne Cochrane-Townshend
Phone number: 028-36100
Other details:
  • Offer support to the recently bereaved in our parish
  • Provide nursing care and chiropody to our members in their own homes, especially the elderly
  • Referral to doctor when necessary
  • Support to the terminally ill and their families in their own homes
  • Our services are available for free to all our members of the association, provided they live in the parish and make a yearly donation of €1 or more

MACROOM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Fairfield, Masseytown, Macroom
County: Cork
Contact name: Seamus O'Leary
Phone number: 026-20744
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • Macroom Family Resource Centre (The Project) is a community based voluntary organisation which aspires to promoting and developing family and community support services in the Macroom area and its hinterland
  • We are committed to working with the full participation of individuals and groups towards improving our community socially, economically and educationally, with our priority on the most disadvantaged
  • Provide, promote and develop a wide range of community based family support services
  • Promote and develop a community awareness in health care, education, community development, social justice and empowerment
  • Work hand in hand with other agencies in alleviating poverty
  • Provide quality childcare service for children from 3 months to twelve years
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

THE SOCIAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION PROJECT (SHEP)

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Village Chambers, The Village Centre, Ballincollig
County: Cork
Phone number: 021-4666180 / 087-7998602 (Coisceim)
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The SHEP aims to:
             - help people to develop the capacities necessary to bring about
             change in their lives and relationships
             - provide low-cost counselling, facilitated support groups (Coisceim
             Counselling Programme)
  • Cork advocacy service: advocacy for older people and for people with disabilities
  • For information on the range of courses offered by the Social Health and Education Project please visit our website www.socialandhealth.com
  • The service is available at a low cost based on the client's ability to pay (such is assessed by the coordinator and agreed on by the client)

BEARA COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o The Caha Centre, Adrigole, Beara
County: Cork
Contact name: Helen Quinn
Phone number: 027-60909
Other details:
  • Beara Counselling and Support services aims to                           
                 - provide subsidised counselling services to people on the 
                 Beara peninsula
                 - provide support services to families on the Beara peninsula,
                 with a particular emphasis on low income families
                 - provide supports and counselling services to prevent any
                 further suicide on the Beara peninsula
  • Service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

Donegal

RAPHOE DIOCESAN PASTORAL CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Pastoral Centre, Cathedral Square, Letterkenny
County: Donegal
Contact name: Sr. Mary O'Donovan
Phone number: 074-9121853
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Family Ministry Support and Development Group aims to:
             - support all families - married, single and adoptive
             - provide counselling to children and adults
             - support bereaved families, especially those bereaved by suicide
             - offer Rainbows bereavement care for children who are
             grieving because of death or separation
  • Bereavement talks and seminars to schools and communities
  • Most of our services are available for free - if the client can afford to pay, a fee of €5 to €20 per counselling session will be accepted (sliding scale based on ability to pay)
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

RAINBOWS TWIN TOWNS

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 15 Blackrock Drive, Ballybofey
County: Donegal
Contact name: Nuala Mullin R.S.M.
Phone number: 074-9132721
Other details:
  • Rainbows is a peer support group for young people who would like the chance to talk about how it has been to have a death in the family or a parent leave home
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

AIDS HELP NORTH WEST

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Mount Southwell, Letterkenny
County: Donegal
Contact name: Mary Bryson
Phone number: 074-9125500
Opening Hours: Monday & Thursday 10.00am - 1.00pm, out of those hours by appointment
Other details:
  • Provide support to those affected by HIV, and their partners and families, for as long as is required

MOVILLE AND DISTRICT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 2 Montgomery Terrace, Moville
County: Donegal
Phone number: 074-9385548
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment Area - East Inishowen
  • Counselling services provided at a low cost

RAPHOE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit 3, Marathon Building, William Street, Raphoe
County: Donegal
Phone number: 074-9145796
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (office hours) - open later where needed

DONEGAL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Eskeside Bungalow, New Row, Donegal Town
County: Donegal
Phone number: 074-9725337
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Counselling service is available free of charge

DOWNSTRANDS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Dolmen Centre, Portnoo
County: Donegal
Phone number: 074-9545879
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • The service is available at a low cost but no person will be turned away due to income or lack thereof

LETTERKENNY WOMEN'S CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Port Road, Letterkenny
County: Donegal
Contact name: Mary O'Donnell
Phone number: 074-9124985
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • The Women's Centre provides a place where women can pursue their own development in a safe, caring and relaxed environment
  • Women's Health and Family Planning Service
  • Listening service
  • Crisis pregnancy counsellor based in the centre
  • Our counselling and listening services are offered for free
  • Women's health clinics are free to medical card holders, smears are free to all

SOLACE DONEGAL CANCER SUPPORT

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Joseph's Avenue, Donegal Town
County: Donegal
Contact name: Sr. Magdalene Moore
Phone number: 074-9740837
Opening Hours: Monday 7.00pm - 9.00pm, Tuesday & Thursday 10.30am - 12.30pm, Wednesday 8.00pm - 10.00pm, Friday 11.00am - 12.00pm
Other details:
  • We offer emotional support and practical help, in total confidence, to people with cancer, their families and friends
  • Bereavement counselling - individuals, families and groups
  • Rainbows group therapy for young people who have suffered loss
  • The service is available for free

ST. JOHNSTON & CARRIGANS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Chapel Road, St. Johnston, Lifford
County: Donegal
Phone number: 074-9148551
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 11.00pm
Other details:
  • All counselling services are available for free
  • We are currently in the process of setting up a Rainbows site which will offer Rainbows support to families in the area
  • Staff within the FRC have the training to provide a listening ear service when required

Dublin

FINGAL COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: B.A.S.E. Resource Centre, Brackenstown Rd, Swords
County: Dublin
Contact name: Eileen McCormack
Phone number: 01-8902596
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Community based voluntary counselling service which provides professional counselling and psychotherapy to people of the greater Fingal area
  • We rely on donations from clients but will provide counselling free of charge, where necessary

CLANWILLIAM INSTITUTE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 18 Clanwilliam Terrace, Grand Canal Quay
County: Dublin
Postcode: 2
Contact name: Aileen Tierney
Phone number: 01-6761363
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm, appointments evenings and Saturday mornings
Other details:
  • Mediation available
  • Service is available at a low cost and on a sliding scale basis

FAMILY LIFE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Brigid's Parish, Parish House, Cabinteely
County: Dublin
Postcode: 18
Contact name: Kay O'Hanlon
Phone number: 01-2850455
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Family Life Centre aims to:
              - provide reduced cost counselling and psychotherapy for 
              individuals and families in crisis i.e. marriage, separation, family, 
              parenting and addictions
              - provide support for those experiencing difficulties as a result of 
              stress related situations, exclusion or marginalisation
              - enable growth through education and formation
              - give courses, talks and workshops on subjects such as 
              parenting, separation, anger, bullying, addiction and spirituality
              - outreach to disadvantaged areas
  • Special Needs Club
  • Senior Social Club
  • Parent/minder and toddler club
  • AWARE
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay
             

NEWLANDS INSTITUTE FOR COUNSELLING

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 2 Monastery Road, Clondalkin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 22
Contact name: Ronan Grimshaw
Phone number: 01-4594573
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to make professional counselling and psychotherapy services available, at no or minimal cost, to those who need such assistance but cannot afford professional fees
  • Service is available for free, at a low cost or on a sliding scale based on ability to pay, depending on the client in question.  We try to positively discriminate in favour of those who cannot pay

CROSSCARE TEEN COUNSELLING

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o The Red House, Clonliffe Road
County: Dublin
Postcode: 3
Contact name: Mary Forrest
Phone number: 01-8371892
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide a professional counselling service for adolescents and their families who are struggling with behavioural and emotional problems
  • Teen counselling offers adolescents and their families time and space in which to work out and resolve issues that contribute to their distress
  • Inform, support and complement the role of the state sector and other voluntary organisations
  • One of the founding principles of our service has been the prevention of more serious difficulties, particularly in the area of substance abuse
  • Service is available for free but donations are welcome
  • We have four other counselling centres across Dublin:
                    - Clondalkin (01-6231398)
                    - Tallaght (01-4623083)
                    - Finglas (01-8646014)
                    - Dun Laoghaire (01-2844852)

GENESIS PSYCHOTHERAPY & FAMILY THERAPY SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Blackcourt Road, Corduff, Blanchardstown
County: Dublin
Postcode: 15
Contact name: Nora Martin (manager)
Phone number: 01-8202764
Opening Hours: Monday to Wednesday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Thursday and Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The organisation aims to provide high quality, affordable and accessible counselling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families in the Dublin 15 area
  • We also offer stress and anxiety workshops, as well as parenting supports
  • The service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

DUBLIN COUNSELLING & THERAPY CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 41 Upper Gardiner Street
County: Dublin
Postcode: 1
Contact name: Paul O'Donoghue
Phone number: 01-8788236
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 8.00am - 10.00pm
Other details:
  • Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre aims to provide a professional therapeutic service for the alleviation of personal and social distress
  • We provide a caring and supportive environment in which individuals, couples and families can address their experiences of stress and isolation
  • We emphasise the need to provide for those who are economically and/or socially marginalised
  • Other services offered include:
                 - counselling and psychotherapy for the full spectrum of
                 personal difficulties
                 - professional training in counselling, psychotherapy and clinical
                 supervision
                 - supervision service for counsellors and psychotherapists
  • Counselling is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay, including free of charge and low cost options
  • We have a sister organisation called the Castlebar Counselling and Therapy Centre (Clogher, Breaffy, Castlebar, Co Mayo); phone number - 094-9022874 

OASIS COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 1 Drumfinn Park, Ballyfermot
County: Dublin
Postcode: 10
Contact name: Vicky McEvoy
Phone number: 01-6268519
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide low-cost professional counselling to the community
  • The service is available at a low cost, with voluntary contributions ranging from €25 - €50

HESED HOUSE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 74 Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Contact name: Padraic Gibson
Phone number: 01-4549474
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm (open till 8.00pm on Tuesday and Wednesday)
Other details:
  • We aim to provide high quality, professional psychotherapy and family therapy to individuals, couples and families irrespective of means
  • Our service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

BARNARDOS BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING FOR CHILDREN

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Hyde Square, 654 Sth Circular Rd
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Phone number: 01-4530355
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm / Helpline: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 12.00pm
Other details:
  • The aims of Barnardos are:
             - to offer support, counselling and therapy services to children
             and their families affected by bereavement, including a
             bereavement helpline
             - to provide training and consultancy to groups and organisations
             whose work brings them into contact with bereaved children
             - to develop and distribute resource materials and information on
             childhood bereavement
             - to engage in research and advocate on the needs of bereaved
             children
  • The service is available for free but donations are welcome
  • We also have an office in Cork:
              - A: The Bowling Green, White St, Cork
              - T: 021-4310591
              - E: bereavement@cork.barnardos.ie
     

AWARE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 72 Lower Leeson Street
County: Dublin
Postcode: 2
Phone number: 01-6617211 (Admin office) / 1890-303-302 (Helpline)
Opening Hours: Admin office - Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm / Lo-Call Helpline: Monday to Wednesday 10.00am - 10.00pm, Thursday to Sunday 10.00am - 1.00am
Other details:
  • Aware aims to:
              - provide information and support to individuals and families
              affected by depression
              - educate the public about the nature, impact and consequences
              of depression and mood disorder
              - act as a voice for the shared concerns of all those affected
              by depression
  • Services include:
              - loCall helpline
              - support groups for individuals and family members
              - education and awareness programmes
              - talks and seminars
              - free information
  • Support services are available for free

THE BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Baldoyle Community Hall, Main Street, Baldoyle
County: Dublin
Postcode: 13
Phone number: 01-8391766
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • The Bereavement Counselling service provides counselling for bereaved persons and seeks to increase the knowledge and awareness, amongst the caring professions and the general public, of the necessity for grief and the processes involved
  • Offers talks to community groups
  • Service is available for free - donations are welcome

A LITTLE LIFETIME FOUNDATION

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Carmichael House, 4 Nth Brunswick St
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Ron Smith-Murphy (chairperson)
Phone number: 01-8726996
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am - 1.00pm (office), phone line manned by a support team 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Other details:
  • Provide information, support and services to parents and families who are expecting their baby to die or already bereaved
  • On-going bereavement support, literature and services of remembrance around Ireland
  • Provide information and support to health care professionals working in this area of care and those who are interested in the community
  • Website www.isands.ie contains a discussion forum
  • Service is available for free

BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP - GENERAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Rathfarnham Parish Centre, Willbrook Road, Rathfarnham
County: Dublin
Postcode: 14
Phone number: 087-9905299
Other details:
  • Bethany Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary, Parish-based ministry which aims to help the bereaved and grieving
  • The GEC co-ordinates various events during the year, setting up new groups, facilitation training days, weekends for the bereaved and the AGM
  • We are responsible for the running of approximately 100 groups, printing and updating the membership list each year
  • The service is available for free

BALDOYLE FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit 4, Baldoyle Ind. Estate, Grange Road, Baldoyle
County: Dublin
Postcode: 13
Phone number: 01-8326115
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm (office hours)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Baldoyle
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost. 
  • A contribution of €20 is accepted where the person or family has the means to pay

AWARENESS EDUCATION OFFICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 3 Cabra Grove
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Dr. Tony Byrne / Sr. Kathleen Maguire
Phone number: 01-8388888
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm, Emergency services 24 hours
Other details:
  • "Facing up to Suicide"
              - a programme to deepen public awareness of the problem of
              suicide and help those bereaved by suicide
              - provides information related to suicide prevention and grief
              - focuses on preventing youth suicides
              - 18 community programmes a year in a variety of venues
              throughout Ireland
  • "Confronting Bullying in the Workplace, Home and School"
              - programme helps victims of bullying and those who care for
              them
              - four one-day programmes annually 
  • Understanding Alcohol Misuse
  • Harmony in the Home - three programmes annually
  • Phone-in service for people who are at risk, have lost their dear ones by suicide or are victims of bullying
  • Workshops to local communities, priests, pastors and seminarians, community leaders and health workers on grief and suicide, bullying, home life and alcohol misuse
  • Radio and TV interviews on suicide
  • Publish books and written articles to newspapers and magazines 
  • The service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay - free for those unable to pay

ST KEVIN'S FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Kevin's Girls School, Kilnamanagh, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Phone number: 01-4627149
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Kilnamanagh, Kingswood, Tyman and most of East Tallaght
  • Our counselling services are available on a sliding scale depending on people's ability to pay

BETHANY FIRHOUSE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o 145 Monalea Grove, Ballycullen Road, Firhouse
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Olive Galvin
Phone number: 01-4942708
Other details:
  • Provide help and support to the bereaved
  • Drop-in centre
  • Home visits
  • Service is available to free

NEW LIFE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Darndale
County: Dublin
Postcode: 17
Contact name: Sinead Griffin
Phone number: 01-8474599
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30am - 9.00pm, Friday 8.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • The New Life Centre provides opportunities for families, adults and young people to grow in freedom and realise their full potential - we welcome all who come here
  • Creche
  • After school clubs
  • Adult courses
  • Massage
  • Drop-in centre
  • Counselling service is available for free but donations are welcome

ST FRANCIS HOSPICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Station Road, Raheny
County: Dublin
Postcode: 5
Contact name: Matthew Farrelly
Phone number: 01-8327535
Other details:
  • Offer bereavement support to relatives and friends of those who died in the care of St. Francis Hospice services
  • The service is available for free

TIERNAN'S COMMUNITY GROUP

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Tiernan's Community School, Balally, Sandyford
County: Dublin
Postcode: 16
Contact name: Mary Fagan
Phone number: 01-2061554
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 3.30pm
Other details:
  • Tiernan's Community Groups offers
                - support (including counselling) to children who are distressed  
                by parental separation
                - bereavement counselling by a qualified counsellor or family
                therapist to family members who have been bereaved
  • The service is available for free

KAIROS COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 29 St. Mary's Drive, Walkinstown
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Phylis Behan
Phone number: 01-4099742
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 9.30pm
Other details:
  • Provide counselling and psychotherapy to adults, couples, groups and teenagers
  • Suicide prevention
  • Supervision for therapists
  • Occasional workshops
  • We provide a reduced cost service - fees are negotiated with clients based on their ability to pay

RAINBOWS ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Parish Office, Ballinteer Avenue, Ballinteer
County: Dublin
Postcode: 16
Contact name: Catherine Byrne
Phone number: 01-4994203
Opening Hours: Mornings only, phone messaging service at other times
Other details:
  • We offer peer support to children who are grieving due to death or separation
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

RIVERSIDE COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Blessed Sacrament Church, 20 Bachelor's Walk
County: Dublin
Postcode: 1
Contact name: Liam Sheridan
Phone number: 01-8724597
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to make a professional counselling service to individuals and families
  • We run a support group for those bereaved by suicide and sexual addiction disorders
  • We offer supervision for counsellors in training
  • Our counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

BEACON OF LIGHT COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 4 Collinstown Grove, Neilstown, Clondalkin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 22
Contact name: Maureen O'Mahony
Phone number: 01-4578700
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The Beacon of Light Counselling Centre aims to provide a professional counselling service to the people of Clondalkin and its surrounding areas, at a cost appropriate to the circumstances of the individual or family
  • Workshops on personal development issues such as communication, anger management, self-esteem and confidence etc
  • Counselling is available to all, regardless of ability to pay

HILL STREET FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Hill Street Playground
County: Dublin
Postcode: 1
Phone number: 01-8746810
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm, Friday 9.00am - 1.30pm (some evenings for sessions and groups)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - North East Inner City
  • Counselling services are available for free

ACET (AIDS CARE EDUCATION AND TRAINING) IRELAND

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 14 Lower O'Connell Street
County: Dublin
Postcode: 1
Contact name: Lynn
Phone number: 01-8787700
Opening Hours: Office: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 3.30pm; Care Services: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (and some weekends)
Other details:
  • We provide practical and emotional support to families affected by HIV and AIDS
  • Other services offered:
              - Youth development project for young people affected by HIV
              - Education and training courses on HIV and related issues
  • Our care service is available for free, while the education and training courses are usually available at a low cost (exceptions are made)

KILLINARDEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Killinarden Way, Killinarden, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Phone number: 01-4527053 / 01-4527143
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5.30pm and 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Killinarden, Kiltipper, Ellensborough, Tallaght, Springfield, Jobstown, etc.
  • Bereavement Counselling and Support services available at a low cost

BALLYBODEN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 29 Whitechurch Way, Ballyboden
County: Dublin
Postcode: 16
Phone number: 01-4935953
Opening Hours: 9.00am - 7.30pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Whitechurch, Glenmore, Pearse Brother's Park, Palmer Park
  • One-to-one counselling services available at a low cost

CHERRY ORCHARD FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Bungalow, 28 Elmdale Drive, Cherry Orchard
County: Dublin
Postcode: 10
Phone number: 01-6231367
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.30pm, Friday 9.00am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • The service is provided on a voluntary basis and no fee is charged

BETHANY CHURCHTOWN BEREAVEMENT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o 59 Weston Park, Churchtown
County: Dublin
Postcode: 14
Contact name: Mary Thornton
Phone number: 01-2980940
Opening Hours: We meet every Monday night from 8.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • The Bethany Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary Parish-based Ministry which aims to help the bereaved and the grieving
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY BONNYBROOK BEREAVEMENT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 47 Riverside Rd, Clonshaugh
County: Dublin
Postcode: 17
Contact name: Una Dunbar
Phone number: 01-8475421
Other details:
  • The group aims to offer help and support to the bereaved and grieving by holding services of light, attending funerals and visiting the bereaved

CUMAS PROJECT

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Units 1 & 2, Neilstown Shopping Centre, Clondalkin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 22
Contact name: Margaret Dalton
Phone number: 01-4573515
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Cumas supports families affected by drug misuse within the Clondalkin area through individual and group work
  • We provide drug awareness information
  • Our counselling service is available based on ability to pay

BETHANY CABRA EAST SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Christ the King Day Centre, c/o 115 St Attracta Road, Cabra East
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Kay O'Rourke
Phone number: 01-8383825
Opening Hours: Every second Friday between 10.00am - 12.00pm
Other details:
  • We give support to those in need after a death, the breakup of a marriage or any other loss
  • Our phone line is available 24/7 and we do home visits where needed 
  • Where counselling is required we will put people in touch with the appropriate people
  • Our service is available free of charge

COMMUNITY ADDICTION RESPONSE PROGRAMME (CARP)

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Killinarden Way, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Therese Hegarty
Phone number: 01-4626033
Opening Hours: Monday 9.00am - 6.00pm, Tuesday 9.00am - 7.00pm, Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Thursday 9.00am - 7.30pm, Friday 9.00am - 8.00pm
Other details:
  • CARP works with people so that they don't feel helpless when faced with the tragic consequences of problem drug use either to themselves, their families and their community
  • Other services offered:
                    - methadone maintenance clinic
                    - youth outreach and support groups
                    - laundry and shower facilities for homeless people
                    - non-residential rehabilitation project for those who
                    have been on heroin
                    - addiction counselling
                    - family therapy
  • Our counselling and therapy services are available for free

CHERITH

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Cherith Centre, Firhouse Rd, Firhouse
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Yvonne Smith
Phone number: 086-1982533
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Saturday and Sunday for workshops only
Other details:
  • Cherith Resource Centre aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for all and is committed to providing facilities for those who are socially excluded and marginalised
  • We offer spiritual direction
  • Services offered by Cherith are based on the client's ability to pay or at a low cost (between €10 and €25)

COUNSELLING AND THERAPY SERVICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o An Síol, 19 Manor St,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Maisie Hayden
Phone number: 01-6772170
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.45am - 9.30pm, Friday 9.45am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to contribute to the improved well-being of all people in the community, through the provision of a locally based professional counselling and psychotherapy service
  • We are committed to ensuring that anyone who needs to avail of the service is not excluded through economic difficulties
  • Counselling and psycotherapy services offered cater for such issues as: relationship difficulties, problems at work, feelings of anxiety, loss of self-esteem, depression and sexual abuse
  • We accept voluntary donations for the service

INCLUSION IRELAND - National Association for People with an Intellectual Disability

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit C2, The Steelworks, Foley St,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 1
Contact name: Siobhán Kane
Phone number: 01-8559891
Other details:
  • Inclusion Ireland aims to provide information and support to people with a disability and their families
  • Our counselling service is available for free

INCHICORE COMMUNITY DRUGS TEAM

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Kavanagh House, 135 Emmet Road, Inchicore
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Contact name: Celine Martin
Phone number: 01-4736502
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 5.30pm, Tuesday till 9.00pm
Other details:
  • The aims of the Inchicore Community Drugs Team are as follows:               
               - to provide the highest quality professional service to the people
               who live in the Inchicore area
               - to be inclusive and to invite people to visit us, hear about our
               work and inform us of the needs of the community
               - to identify the needs of drug users and their families and to
               to support them in making positive changes in their lives
               - to provide a community driven response to the problem of drug
               misuse in the Inchicore area
  • We work to develop a service for education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation for the whole community
  • Other services on offer include:
               - one-to-one care planning
               - men's and women's groups
               - personal growth programmes
               - drug treatment
               - alternative therapies
               - addiction counselling
               - parent support programmes
               - family home visits
  • Our services are available for free

OPEN HEART HOUSE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 2 St Mary's Place
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Paula Gilmore
Phone number: 01-8305000
Opening Hours: Monday 2.30pm - 9.30pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 10.30am - 5.00pm, Thursday 10.30am - 2.00pm and Sunday 12.00pm - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Open Heart House aims to support people living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS
  • We encourage a positive approach to living with HIV/AIDS through facilitating a supportive network of peers nationwide in an environment of confidentiality and safety
  • The following are some of the support services we provide:
                - advocacy and support
                - outreach and befriending service
                - meals programme
                - personal growth and well-being programme
                - holistic therapies programme
                - multi-cultural evening
                - counselling and psychotherapy
                - volunteer programme
  • The services offered are available free of charge

LORETO CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Crumlin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Brede Quirke
Phone number: 01-4541078
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 4.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Our organisation is a community education centre that offers courses and counselling to people in the Crumlin area.
  • It takes an holistic approach to education and offers a wide range of courses e.g. women's studies, outreach UCD courses and pre-university course (DIT)
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost, often on a sliding scale based on the client's ability to pay

WHITEFRIAR AUNGIER AREA COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit 4, Whitefriars, Aungier St,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 2
Contact name: Brigid Ruane
Phone number: 01-4759889 / 087-2467091
Opening Hours: 7 days a week 10.00am - 8.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to maximise the support and development of services to our local community
  • Other services on offer:
                   - aromatherapy
                   - indian head massage
                   - acupuncture
                   - computer access
                   - education courses
                   - personal development
  • The service is available for free

ADDICTION RESPONSE CRUMLIN

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 101 Cashel Road, Crumlin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Susan Collins
Phone number: 01-4563131
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 10.00pm, Saturday 11.00am - 3.00pm
Other details:
  • Addiction Response Crumlin aims to provide an holistic, non-judgemental and client-centred caring service for drug-misusers and their families
  • The project promotes community development and the re-integration of clients back into the community
  • Services on offer include:
                 - family support
                 - education and training
                 - rehabilitation
                 - two CE (Community Employment) schemes
                 - under 18 youth service
                 - holistic treatments
  • Services are available for free

THE VILLAGE COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Main Building, Killinarden Enterprise Park, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Ciarán Dalton
Phone number: 01-4664205
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Saturday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the Village Counselling Service is to provide a confidential, professional and low cost counselling service for those in Dublin 24 and its surrounding areas
  • The counselling service is provided to adults, adolescents, children and couples
  • There is no waiting list as their service is operated on a quick response basis
  • The service is available at a low cost, operating on a sliding scale based on the clients ability to pay

AN CUAN FAMILY CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 2 Rathgar Avenue, Rathgar
County: Dublin
Postcode: 6
Phone number: 01-4906628
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Offer family and psychological services to anyone who would benefit from them, including child and adolescent counselling, family therapy, bereavement counselling and individual and couple counselling
  • The service is available at a low cost (limited numbers)

BETHANY ST AENGUS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Aengus Parish, Balrothery, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Sr. Bernadette Hanrahan
Phone number: 01-4515321
Opening Hours: Parish Office (01-4513757) - Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide support to people who are bereaved
  • Meet with the bereaved individuals at a time and place that suits them
  • Meet with families in their own homes
  • Service is available for free

ANAM CARA - PARENTAL AND SIBLING BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit 3, 78 Walkinstown Road
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Sharon Vard
Phone number: 085-2888888
Other details:
  • Anam Cara aims to:
               - offer peer support to parents after the loss of a son or
               daughter
               - reduce the isolation so often felt by bereaved parents
  • We organise formal and informal events for bereaved parents and siblings to attend, ranging from family picnics to professional guest speakers at our satellite groups around Ireland (currently 9 groups, will be 15 by November '09)
  • Other services offered include:
               - private message forum
               - family social events
               - creative events
               - celebration of life services
  • Our service is available for free to all bereaved parents throughout the 32 counties   
              

BETHANY MALAHIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Parish Office, St. Sylvester's Parish Church, Malahide
County: Dublin
Contact name: Tom O'Connor
Phone number: Listening number - 087-7936189
Other details:
  • Bethany Malahide is a voluntary Parish-based ministry which aims to help the bereaved and grieving
  • We provide a confidential listening service for people who have been bereaved 
  • Group support sessions are held on the second Monday of each month at 8.00pm in St. Marnock's Chapel, St. Andrew's Church, Church Rd, Malahide
  • A member of the group is available to meet bereaved people at any time
  • In addition, we organise speakers to come and address an audience of people suffering bereavement
  • We also have a small library of relevant books; people who come to us for support are always welcome to borrow them
  • The bereaved people are never asked to fund this service, it is completely free of charge
                

AdVIC (ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF HOMICIDE)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: P.O. Box 10106, Swords
County: Dublin
Contact name: Annie Mulvaney
Phone number: 01-4517935 / 086-0497259
Opening Hours: 24 hours
Other details:
  • AdVIC aims to advocate change that will bring about a re-balancing of the criminal justice system and recognition of the status of families of homicide victims within the system and to ensure that a comprehensive and co-ordinated inter-agency service is offered to all families
  • Our professional counsellors have successfully completed a series of workshops in facilitation skills for homicide victims
  • We offer 10 counselling sessions (negotiable) at a maximum cost of €25 per session for the bereaved person

WALKINSTOWN GREENHILLS RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 12 Bridgecourt Office Park, Walkinstown Avenue, Walkinstown
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Kay Bailey
Phone number: 01-4198630
Other details:
  • Our primary aim is to assist the local community, through an holistic approach, to take responsibility for drug related issues that affect the Walkinstown and Greenhills areas, by addressing the causes and symptoms of drug misuse
  • Addiction counselling and support for relatives of those with addictions also on offer
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY IRELAND

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 71-72 North Brunswick Street
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Margaret Goode
Phone number: 01-8721501 / 086-3834426
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Muscular Dystrophy Ireland aims to provide information, advice and support to people with neuromuscular conditions and their families through a range of support service
  • Our objective is to promote, through practical empowerment, independent living for people with the condition
  • We support lobbying for a change in policy and service that enable people with neuromuscular conditions to fully participate in society and to live a life of their own choosing
  • MDI also aims to support and fund research into neuromuscular conditions
  • Other services offered include:
                 - family support services
                 - respite/youth services
                 - information
                 - transport
                 - loan of equipment
  • Most of our services are available for free or at a low cost

COMMUNITY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier St
County: Dublin
Postcode: 2
Contact name: Fr David Weahlan
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 10.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to empower people from the local area, and others who associate with our Church and Community Centre, to develop their personal lives and participate in building community
  • Variety of courses available including: personal development, stress management, computer courses (all levels), arts and crafts, yoga, pottery, literacy training, cookery: beginners and gourmet, childcare, spirituality and meditation
  • Scallywag's Creche - currently looks after more than 40 children, from 3 months to 3 years of age, girls and boys
  • Counselling service - we currently have one accredited counsellor, four graduate counsellors and one student

SUPPORT AFTER HOMICIDE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Secretary, Beechview, 20 Maple Grove, Rathcoole
County: Dublin
Contact name: Co-ordinator
Phone number: 087-9837322
Opening Hours: 7 days per week, 24 hours per day
Other details:
  • A national voluntary organisation providing emotional support and practical information to people who have been bereaved by murder, manslaughter or death by violent crime, by professionally trained and experienced volunteers
  • One-to-one support
  • Family support
  • Support groups
  • The service is available for free

BAWNOGUE YOUTH & FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Units 11 & 13, Bawnogue Shopping Centre, Clondalkin
County: Dublin
Postcode: 22
Contact name: Rosie McGlone
Phone number: 01-4572938
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide a confidential and free range of services to our clients and their families
  • Our ethos is one of support, respect and understanding
  • We are person centred and needs based
  • Homeless drop-in
  • One-to-one counselling
  • Family support group
  • Referrals
  • Alternative therapies
  • Client drop-in
  • Services are available for free

BETHANY BALLYBODEN BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Augustines, Taylor's Lane, Ballyboden
County: Dublin
Postcode: 16
Contact name: Patrick Houlihan
Phone number: 01-4933942
Other details:
  • Bereavement support - drop-in centre, monthly home visits
  • The service is available for free

THE STAY PROJECT

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Scoil Iosa, Tymon North, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Maura Moran
Phone number: 086-8338958
Opening Hours: Stay Project: 10.00/10.30am - 6.00-8.00pm, Therapy: Thursday afternoon
Other details:
  • The Stay Project aims to:
              - develop an integrated response for children who are at risk
              of early school leaving
              - enable young people to involve themselves consciously and
              actively in their own development and the development
              of society
  • After school groups
  • Individual sessions
  • Small peer groups
  • Transfer programme
  • Family activities
  • Therapy is available for free and is offered to Stay participants

BETHANY CASTLEKNOCK BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Our Lady Mother of the Church, Beechpark Avenue, Castleknock
County: Dublin
Postcode: 15
Contact name: Mary T. Walsh
Phone number: 087-2498039
Opening Hours: Small and informal group after 10.00am mass on Tuesday and Friday
Other details:
  • Offer support and consolation to the bereaved
  • House visits
  • Telephone support
  • Funeral support
  • Service is available for free

TARGET COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Holy Trinity School, Donaghmeade
County: Dublin
Postcode: 13
Contact name: Juliet Smith
Phone number: 01-8670279
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.30pm & Monday to Thursday 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Target Counselling Service provides confidential and non-directive one-to-one counselling to adults over the age of 18 
  • The service is for adults who need support during difficult times i.e. bereavement, marital and relationship difficulties, and other other areas of life where stress, anxiety and depression can arise 
  • The service is available for free - donations at the clients' discretion

CARI (CHILDREN AT RISK IN IRELAND) FOUNDATION

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 110 Lower Drumcondra Road, Drumcondra
County: Dublin
Postcode: 9
Contact name: Dr. Niall Muldoon
Phone number: 01-8308529 / 1890-924-567
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • CARI's primary aim is to provide professional, child-centred therapy and counselling to children, young people and families who have been affected by child sexual abuse, and to support and assist their recovery process
  • Support to non-abusing family members or carers
  • Low-call helpline for those with questions or concerns re child abuse (professionals, carers and/or young people)
  • Training and outreach on issues relevant to child sexual abuse and child protection to professionals and organisations
  • CARI operates a sliding scale of fees but no-one will be excluded from services due to inability to pay

PIETA HOUSE (CENTRE FOR THE PREVENTION OF SELF-HARM OR SUICIDE)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Old Lucan Road, Lucan
County: Dublin
Contact name: Avril Mansouri
Phone number: 01-6010000
Opening Hours: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday 10.00am - 8.00pm, Tuesday & Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm, Saturday 10.00am - 2.00pm, Sunday on-call service 10.00am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • Pieta House offers one-to-one counselling to people with suicidal ideation, people who have already attempted suicide and for people engaging in self-harming behaviours
  • We also offer support to the families of people in crisis
  • Our service is available free of charge

FAMILY THERAPY CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Dominic's Secondary School, Ballyfermot
County: Dublin
Postcode: 10
Contact name: Kathleen Fitzsimons
Phone number: 085-1001224
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide systematic therapeutic services to individuals, couples and families from schools in Dominican Campus
  • The service is available for free to all

BETHANY LUCAN BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Mary's Parish, Lucan
County: Dublin
Contact name: Sr. Geraldine Smith
Phone number: 01-6217158
Opening Hours: Parish Centre 9.00am - 9.30pm - 01-6217041
Other details:
  • Support for the bereaved
  • Home visits
  • Drop-in centre
  • Support and hospitality at months mind mass and yearly liturgy
  • Arrange two yearly retreats
  • Ongoing workshops
  • The service is available for free

DONORE COMMUNITY DRUG TEAM

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Donore Youth & Community Centre, Donore Avenue
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Contact name: Kay McEnroe
Phone number: 01-4164339
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • Donore CDT work with the community of Donore Avenue and surrounding areas to assist all those affected by addiction problems, to promote the health and well-being of the community and to improve the quality of life for those who use our service
  • Drop-in centre
  • Family support
  • Holistic therapies
  • We do not charge for our service

SWAN FAMILY SUPPORT ORGANISATION

Type(s): Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: at the Resource Centre, St. Anne's School, Fettercairn, Tallaght
County: Dublin
Postcode: 24
Contact name: Eamonn White
Phone number: 01-4628006
Opening Hours: Fettercairn: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.30pm, Springfield: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 9.00pm & Saturday 9.30am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • SWAN Family Support Organisation aims to:
               - provide support that meets the practical needs of families
               - provide a broad range of quality services to families and 
               communities who are under stress due to drug and alcohol abuse,
               within the family setting  
  • We offer a range of holistic therapies including:
               - auricular acupuncture
               - indian head massage
               - facial rejuvenation
               - meditation
               - reiki
               - counselling
  • Other services available include: personal development and stress management courses, peer led support groups and outreach to high support families
  • Our services are offered on a donation basis         

BETHANY DALKEY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Dalkey Parish, Dalkey (c/o Laragh House, Ardeevin Road, Dalkey)
County: Dublin
Contact name: Roasalie Prendergast
Phone number: 01-2858276
Opening Hours: Support is offered on request or in Presbytery No. 2 after 10.30am Mass on the first Thursday of the month
Other details:
  • The group assists those suffering bereavement through the provision of listening support and materials for the bereaved
  • The service is available for free

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WIDOWS IN IRELAND

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Coleraine House, Coleraine St
County: Dublin
Postcode: 7
Contact name: Phyllis Bolger
Phone number: 01-8733622 / 01-8728814
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 11.00am - 3.30pm
Other details:
  • We aim to enrich the lives of all widows and campaign on their behalf for social justice
  • A widow can build a new life within the Association, regain confidence and gently adjust to a new life
  • No matter what are her problems, social, emotional, financial or legal, help and advice is there for her
  • The service is available for free

RAINBOWS MERCY SECONDARY SCHOOL

Type(s): Rainbows,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Mercy Secondary School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Contact name: Treasa Leahy
Phone number: 01-4531262
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.45am - 3.30pm
Other details:
  • The service is available for free

LIBERTIES COUNSELLING

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 11 Meath St
County: Dublin
Postcode: 8
Phone number: 01-4736491
Other details:
  • Liberties Counselling is a registered trading name of School St & Thomas Court Bawn Family Resources Centre Ltd
  • The service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

TURNING POINT

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 23 Crofton Road, Dun Laoghaire,
County: Dublin
Contact name: Kay Conroy
Phone number: 01 2800626 / 01 2807888
Opening Hours: 10am to 6pm
Other details:
  • To support individuals / groups / children, separating couples & others in crisis due to illness, bereavement, terminal illness, life crisis or crisis of meaning as they journey through life.

Other Services offered:

  • Support Groups for those with cancer / bereavement
  • Couples & Family Therapy
  • Family Mediation
  • Personal Development Groups & Training
  • Services available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

BETHANY BLUEBELL BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Our Lady of the Wayside, Bluebell,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 12
Contact name: Sr Anne Ryan
Phone number: 0861782999
Other details:
  • Beginning a new support service for the bereaved, which will be available to offer comfort and support in whatever way it can.
  • Service available for free.

BALLYFERMOT STAR

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 7 Drumfinn Park, Ballyfermot,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 10
Contact name: Sunniva Finlay, Manager
Phone number: 01-6238002
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Other details:
  • Ballyfermot STAR is a community response to drug use. We provide non-judgemental support, guidance and education to drug users, their families and the community, enabling them to cope with and overcome the effects of drug use in their every day lives.
  • Other services offered:

 - Réalt Beag – Child and Family Centre - an Early Learning Centre catering for thirty six children on a full time basis and a total of forty children on a sessional basis. 

 - Réalt Na Clann - Provides services for family members who have been affected by drug/alcohol misuse.  Individual family members can access one-to-one support, counselling services, and/or join one of the support groups, including:

- Men’s Group (fathers of drug users)
- Women’s Group (mothers or sisters of drug users)
- Bereavement Group 
- Complementary Therapies – Reiki, Massage, Shiatsu, Yoga and Acupuncture  (available to all service users)

 - Réalt Nua - our education and training Programme for drug users in recovery. 

 - Saoirse Programme -  a separate support programme for Cocaine drug users.

 - Community Drug Awareness Courses - a yearly Community Addiction Studies Course. 

 - Ballyfermot STAR Care Plan delivers a unique care plan, based on a 'Bio-Psycho-Social' approach.

  •  Services offered on a sliding scale based on ability to pay.

KILMACUD BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Kilmacud Parish Centre, Church Grounds, Lower Kilmacud Road, Stillorgan,
County: Dublin
Contact name: B. De Hora
Phone number: 01 2886144
Opening Hours: Friday 10am - 11am, Last Wednesday of every month 8pm - 9pm
Other details:
  • Aim of Support Group is to assist people with the process of dealing with their bereavement.
  • Bereavement Support is available for free.

RATHMINES BETHANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: C/O St Mary's Community Centre, Rathmines,
County: Dublin
Postcode: 6
Contact name: Anne Butler
Phone number: 087-2050514
Other details:
  • To assist people who are bereaved.
  • Support is available for free.

Galway

PRO-CONSULT - INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLING

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 1 St Helen's Street, Cookes Corner
County: Galway
Phone number: 091-589581
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday - evening appointments
Other details:
  • Pro Consult is a community based professional counselling and psychotherapy service, provided by highly qualified and experienced staff (individual, couple, family and group counselling is available)
  • Counselling offers an opportunity, in a confidential setting, to explore a particular problem and the various options available for change and growth
  • Other services offered:
                - supervision for counsellors and people working in caring roles
                - training and resources to other agencies
                - employee assistance programmes
  • The standard fee as of January 2009 is €65 per session but a sliding scale fee is applicable for people who are unable to pay the standard fee (average sliding scale fee for 2008 was €27)

AIDS WEST

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ozanam House, St Augustine Street
County: Galway
Contact name: John Flannery (General Manager)
Phone number: 091-566266
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • AIDS West offers support and counselling to all those who are affected by HIV or AIDS in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon
  • We promote positive sexual health to all communities
  • Other services offered include:
                   - education and prevention services
                   - information helpline
                   - a quarterly newsletter for clients and the general public
                   - respite and complimentary therapies 
  • The bereavement counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay 

ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF IRELAND (GALWAY)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Envision House, Flood Street
County: Galway
Contact name: Ann Cosgrove or Maureen Mannion
Phone number: 091-561556
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide:
                 - quality dementia specific care
                 - information and support to carers and families of
                 people with dementia and Alzheimers
  • Day carers
  • Support groups
  • Home care service
  • Services are available for free

SOLAS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Main Street, Headford
County: Galway
Phone number: 093-36446
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm (open during lunch)
Other details:
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost (between €5 and €10)

BETHANY BALLINASLOE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Presbytery, Dunlo Street, Ballinasloe
County: Galway
Contact name: Maureen Casey
Phone number: 087-2376977
Opening Hours: by appointment
Other details:
  • We aim to offer support to bereaved persons, by providing them with an opportunity to talk in confidence to a trained listener on a one-to-one basis in the person's home, or, in our drop in centre where an open meeting is held once a month
  • Our service is available free of charge

BETHANY ATHENRY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Parish Office, St. Mary's Parish, Athenry
County: Galway
Phone number: 091-844076
Opening Hours: Drop-in centre open on the third Wednesday of every month between 7.30pm - 9.30pm at the old Presbytery (near the church)
Other details:
  • Behtany Athenry Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary parish-based ministry which aims to help the bereaved and grieving.
  • The group is involved in home visits and phonecalls to the bereaved, funeral liturgies and the facilitation of a drop-in centre
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY TUAM BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Helen Tobin, Kilcloghan's, Tuam
County: Galway
Contact name: Julie Daly
Phone number: 087-6387144
Opening Hours: Contactable by phone at any time
Other details:
  • The group aims to offer support, such as a listening ear, to those having difficulty with their bereavement
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY WEST OF IRELAND BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Esker Retreat House, Athenry
County: Galway
Contact name: Sr. Mary Glennon
Phone number: 087-3204569
Opening Hours: all day
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to work with parish teams who offer support to the bereaved in their local communities.

FATHERS FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 6A Joyce House, Tuam Road Retail Centre, Tuam Road
County: Galway
Contact name: Sam Butt
Phone number: 1890-554433 (Lo-call) / 091-752355 / 086-3216644
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 6.00pm, Emergency calls 7 days per week 8.00am - 10.00pm on 086-8699827
Other details:
  • Fathers for Justice and Equality aims to raise awareness of the obligations, duties and rights of fathers
  • Advice, emotional support and professionally accredited counselling
  • Educational workshops and classes in conjunction with Galway VEC and Galway City Partnership
  • Outreach workshops on men's issues, such as mental health and father's issues in particular
  • Counselling service is available for free but donations are accepted

FORUM CONNEMARA

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ellis Hall, Letterfrack, Connemara
County: Galway
Contact name: Yvonne Keane
Phone number: 095-41116/7
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • FORUM Connemara aims to:
                - put in place long-term strategies and structures to tackle  
                rural decline peripherality
                - promote a coherent response to the problems of poverty
                - foster the integration of the excluded into social, economic,
                environmental and political life, bringing public agencies, 
                private enterprise, local communities and voluntary
                organisations into partnership     
  • Access to third level education
  • Development of resource centres and social programmes
  • Employment support
  • Adolescent support group
  • Citizens information
  • Under and unemployed - support for setting up your own business
  • Service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay     

GALWAY DIOCESAN PASTORAL CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Árus de Brún, Newtownsmith
County: Galway
Contact name: Eileen Kelly
Phone number: 091-565066
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (closed for lunch 1.00pm - 2.00pm)
Other details:
  • Parenting classes
  • Secondary school retreats
  • Support for parents of children who are preparing for the reception of the sacraments
  • Primary and secondary school religion educational support
  • Classes and retreats are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay; other services are available for free

Kerry

ACCORD TRALEE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St John's Parish Centre, Castle Street, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7120194
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • ACCORD aims to help couples initiate, sustain and enrich their marriage and family relationships
  • Other services offered:
             - marital sexual therapy
             - fertility and well-being service
             - marriage enrichment
             - schools programme
  • Counselling - the service is based on the client's needs rather than their ability to pay.  A contribution is requested if the person or couple can afford to make one
  • Marriage Preparation - a course fee applies but the service is free if the couple cannot afford to pay

SOUTHWEST COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Emmett's Road, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-6636416
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • SouthWest Counselling Centre provides an affordable professional counselling service to children, adolescents, adults, couples and parents
  • Crisis pregnancy counselling - available for free
  • Workshops in schools and community
  • Parenting support
  • Counselling services are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

SOUTHWEST KERRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The O'Connell Centre, Carhan Road, Cahirciveen
County: Kerry
Contact name: Mairead Lynch
Phone number: 066-9473397
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Southwest Kerry Womens Association aims to:
               - enable women to be actively involved in their local communities
               - encourage and support women to participate in the decision
               making process which affect their lives
               - identify and meet the needs of rural women
               - develop a supportive management structure which is
               representative and reflective of the needs of women
  • Monitoring service for one parent families
  • Support to women's groups with information, form-filling etc.
  • Dissemination of information on health and other issues pertaining to women
  • Group looking at the issue of domestic violence and creating awareness around the issues and services in Kerry
  • The service is available at a low cost

CASTLEMAINE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Tralee Rd, Castlemaine
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9767833
Opening Hours: 9.00am - 6.00pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Castlemaine, Milltown, Firies and Keel
  • Counselling service is available at a cost of €15 per session

DUAGH FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Duagh Village, Triencaragh, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068-45333

LISTOWEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Upper Church St, Listowel
County: Kerry
Phone number: 068-23584
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm (office hours), groups operate 7 days per week until 10.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Listowel, urban and rural
  • Counselling services available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

LIVING LINKS KERRY

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Sean Scoil, Sunhill, Killorglin
County: Kerry
Contact name: Margaret Casey
Phone number: 066-9790953 / 087-7955908
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 12.00pm
Other details:
  • Living Links Kerry is an outreach support group for families bereaved by suicide
  • Confidential listening service available
  • No person is ever turned away - we can refer people to other services if required
  • Our service is available for free

KERRY ADOLESCENT COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Balloonagh, Tralee
County: Kerry
Contact name: Fran O'Leary
Phone number: 066-7181333
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Professional counselling for adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years
  • Suicide Prevention Programme in six schools in the county
  • Youthreach counselling
  • Service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay
  • Website: www.kerryadolescentcounselling.ie

RAINBOWS ST BRENDAN'S PASTORAL CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Rock Street, Tralee
County: Kerry
Contact name: Sr. de Lourdes Fleming
Phone number: 066-7125932
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.30pm, Monday to Thursday 7.30pm - 9.30pm, afternoons - meetings by request
Other details:
  • Rainbows provides a safe and confidential place where children can meet, realise that they are loved and that the hurt does not last forever and help them gain trust in parents again
  • We welcome parents and guardians who bring and collect the children to the Rainbows group to make themselves feel at home, get to know each other, have a cuppa and gain confidence in the facilitators
  • The rainbows service is available for free
  • St. Brendan's Pastoral Centre offers a variety of other services including: parish choir, parent and toddlers group, music play group, yoga, pilates, counselling, information meetings

KILLORGLIN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 39 Iveragh Park, Killorglin
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9762933
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 7.30am - 9.30pm (office hours 9-5)
Other details:
  • Counselling services available at a low cost

SOUTH WEST KERRY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 6, West Main Street, Cahersiveen
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-9481000
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Small donations are accepted for the service

DROICHEAD NA DAOINE (SNEEM)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Seaview, Sneem
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-75879
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm (open in the evenings for counselling, meetings etc.)
Other details:
  • Counselling service is currently available free of charge but donations are accepted

BALLYSPILLANE COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ballyspillane Estate, Killarney
County: Kerry
Phone number: 064-6635589
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, Tuesday to Thursday 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Donations are accepted for the counselling service

CUAN COUNSELLING SERVICE (MFG)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Monastery, The Mall, Dingle
County: Kerry
Contact name: Sinéad Chaomhánach
Phone number: 087-8275084
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Cuan Counselling aims to provide free, confidential, professional and local counselling and play therapy for young people in west Kerry and for adults affected by suicide
  • We also offer referral information for adults seeking counselling
  • All of our counsellors are trained and appropriately supervised
  • The service is currently available for free and we are committed to providing low cost and sliding scale counselling in the long term

BUDS FAMILY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Benmore, Ballyduff, Tralee
County: Kerry
Phone number: 066-7148883
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm, evenings where required
Other details:
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost

Kildare

KILDARE SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Church of the Irish Martyrs, Ballycane, Naas
County: Kildare
Contact name: Elizabeth A Shirley
Phone number: 045-895629 / 045-871340
Opening Hours: Walk-in service each Thursday night; otherwise, by appointment - no waiting list
Other details:
  • The group aims to provide counselling and support, to those bereaved by suicide, affected by parasuicide or self-harm, or, for general bereavement
  • The service is available for free and no person seeking counselling will be turned away

ATHY COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 82 Leinster Street, Athy
County: Kildare
Contact name: Ann Connell
Phone number: 059-8638099
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The aims of the group are to: 
                   - identify and address the social needs of the area
                   - provide support to existing projects and groups
                   - create and help to create new projects and support groups
  • We provide room space for groups to meet in our building
  • We provide an open door policy where people can call into the centre for information, support or contact details for other agencies
  • Our counselling service is available at a low cost or based on the clients ability to pay (most of our clients can not afford to pay)

NEWBRIDGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Dara Park, Newbridge
County: Kildare
Phone number: 045-438173
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 10.00pm, Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm, Saturday 9.30am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Newbridge and surrounding areas
  • This service is currently available for free

BETHANY MAYNOOTH BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 2 Maynooth Park, Maynooth
County: Kildare
Contact name: Mary or Martina
Phone number: 087-7825603 / 01-6293018 (9.30am - 2.30pm)
Opening Hours: evenings after 7.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to offer support to the bereaved, through a confidential listening service which allows the person to understand that the grieving process can be long and severe
  • We offer reading materials and CDs which are beneficial to the bereaved
  • We also organise an annual Parish Service of Light on the first Monday in November, usually at 8.00pm
  • The service is free to everybody

BETHANY ATHY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o 22 Woodstock Street, Athy
County: Kildare
Contact name: Breda Hughes
Phone number: 059-8632596
Opening Hours: available at all times
Other details:
  • The group aims to minister to bereaved individuals and families
  • The service is available for free

ATHY TRAVELLERS SUPPORT GROUP LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Mount St. Mary's, Stanhope Place, Athy
County: Kildare
Contact name: Sr. Roasarii Martin
Phone number: 059-8632612
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Athy Travellers Support Group aims to collectively work together in empowering people to participate, tackle issues that face their community and influence change in their situation
  • Adult education and training
  • Childcare facilities: creche, playschool and pre-school
  • Family support and mentoring
  • Citizen advice and information service
  • Drop-in centre for Travellers and visiting Traveller families
  • Permanent Traveller culture exhibition open to the public
  • MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) - 059-9140799
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

BETHANY NEWBRIDGE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Parish Centre, Newbridge
County: Kildare
Contact name: Rose Dempsey
Phone number: 086-3353259 / 045-43219
Other details:
  • Offer support (one-to-one and group) to the bereaved
  • Visitation and phone-calls
  • Referral to counselling service if deemed necessary
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY KILCULLEN BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: "Twin Oaks", Brannockstown, Ballymore Eustace
County: Kildare
Contact name: Mary or Adrienne
Phone number: 086-2668228
Opening Hours: contactable at anytime
Other details:
  • Our group provides a listening ear, in total confidence, to bereaved people
  • We do house visits where needed and a mass is held in November for the bereaved
  • The service is available for free; if our mobile is contacted we can ring back 

BETHANY CELBRIDGE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Eustace Centre, Parochial House, Main St, Celbridge / Correspondence to: Maura Connolly, Apt 77 Simmonstown Manor, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
County: Kildare
Contact name: Maura Connolly
Phone number: 01-6279795
Opening Hours: Wednesday evenings 7.30pm - 10.30pm, otherwise as required
Other details:
  • Offer support to bereaved people by providing:
                - one-to-one support
                - group support
                - home visits
  • We assist at the "service of light" mass for deceased parishioners of our local parish (St. Patrick's Church, Main St, Celbridge)
  • Our service is free of charge

RAINBOWS ALLEN PARISH

Type(s): Rainbows,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 15 Lowtown Manor, Robertstown, Naas
County: Kildare
Contact name: Fr. Brian Kavanagh
Phone number: 087-6162675
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm (parish office - 045-860135)
Other details:
  • We offer bereavement support and facilitate the Rainbows and Prism programmes for children and adults
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

ST. CONLETH'S INFANT SCHOOL

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Newbridge
County: Kildare
Contact name: Bernadette Colleran
Phone number: 045-431050
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.10am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • Rainbows provides peer support for children who have suffered loss in their lives because of separation or bereavement
  • We offer one-to-one counselling to children who have experienced trauma or loss in their lives and find groupwork difficult
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

BETHANY KILL, ARDCLOUGH & JOHNSTOWN BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o St Brigid's Parish Centre, Kill,
County: Kildare
Contact name: Nellie
Phone number: 045 877 767
Opening Hours: 3rd Monday every month at 8.30pm
Other details:
  • Provides bereavement support to bereaved people at monthly meetings and on a one to one basis as required.
  • Home visits offered.
  • Service available for free.

Kilkenny

KILKENNY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Villa Maria, Talbots Inch, Freshford Road
County: Kilkenny
Contact name: Padraig McMorrow
Phone number: 056-7756538
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide support and counselling for the bereaved, or, those who are caring for people who are suffering from a terminal illness
  • One-to-one support and counselling for people of all ages and denominations
  • Talks and workshops for schools, parishes and other interested groups
  • Service is free but donations are accepted

CAMPHILL COMMUNITIES OF IRELAND

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Camphill Jerpoint, Thomastown
County: Kilkenny
Contact name: Inge Lange
Phone number: 087-3156727
Opening Hours: Flexible
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to offer life-sharing residential/day care to people with special needs of all ages.
  • Our counselling service is open to people with or without special needs, from within and without the communities
  • The service is available either at a low cost (on a sliding scale based on ability to pay), or, free of charge (depending on circumstances)

LOUGHBOY AREA RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Bishop Birch Training Institute, Nuncio Road,
County: Kilkenny
Contact name: Sheila Cantwell
Phone number: 056-7764700
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm & Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Loughboy Area Resource Centre aims to work with the community under the principles of empowerment, inclusion and participation, supporting those most in need
  • We seek to identify the barriers that exclude people from participating in community life, training, education and employment
  • The following services are also offered:
             - youth group and support programme
             - integrated childcare services
             - computer programmes
             - parent and toddler group
             - lone parents group
             - older people well-being group
             - health and nutrition programme
             - minority groups
  • The counselling service is available for free for residents from the target area of Loughboy, or, based on the clients ability, on a sliding scale, to donate a percentage of the fee (max €35) 

Laois

PORTLAOISE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Portlaoise Parish Centre, Portlaoise
County: Laois
Contact name: Sr. Kathleen Kennedy
Phone number: 057-8621142
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Through a team of volunteers we reach out to support, comfort and console those whose loved ones have passed away
  • Our service is available for free

MOUNTMELLICK DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Irishtown, Mountmellick
County: Laois
Contact name: Dolores Dempsey
Phone number: 057-8624525
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PARENT SUPPORT (NAPS)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: New Road, Portlaoise
County: Laois
Contact name: Elizabeth Quinn
Phone number: 057-8661666
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide support services for families, particularly those with educational difficulties and those being bullied
  • Our services extend to the wider family unit, covering counselling, stress problems, childcare and parenting services
  • All our services are targeted at those most vulnerable but are available equally to all
  • 24 hour helpline
  • Youth services
  • Drop-in centre
  • Research and specialist library (literature developed according to need)
  • Drop-in childcare facility
  • Special needs education provision
  • Special needs support group
  • Lone parent support group
  • Services are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

Leitrim

CARRICK C.S SEPARATION & BSG

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Community School, Carrick-on-Shannon
County: Leitrim
Contact name: Marie O'Conghaile
Phone number: 071-9620880
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • We offer support to the students of Carrick Community School who have experienced parental separation and/or bereavement
  • The service is available for free (we require a small deposit to book a place on the Delphi programme)

MOHILL FAMILY SUPPORT CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Canon Donohoe Hall, Upper Main St, Mohill
County: Leitrim
Phone number: 071-9631253
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Art therapy
  • Counselling services are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay - generally at a cost of €10 or less

Limerick

SOUTHILL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 267 Avondale Court, O'Malley Park, Southill
County: Limerick
Phone number: 061-440250
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Southill area of Limerick
  • One-to-one counselling and counselling for couples available free of charge

LIMERICK SOCIAL SERVICE COUNCIL

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Limerick Social Service Centre, Henry Street
County: Limerick
Contact name: Brian Ryan
Phone number: 061-314111
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Limerick Social Service Counvil, through a caring response, aims to promote the dignity and growth of individuals, families and groups
  • Pre-natal accommodation service
  • Post-natal accommodation service
  • Parent support programme
  • Crèche
  • Family advocacy service
  • Service for older people
  • Pre-school service
  • Family welfare conference
  • Teen parenting support
  • Counselling services are available for free (others are affordable to those in need or free of charge where appropriate)

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Our Lady of Rosary Parish Church, Ennis Road
County: Limerick
Contact name: Elizabeth Mulvin / Philomena Flood
Phone number: 087-2546492 / 087-2366981
Opening Hours: as required
Other details:
  • We provide support services to parishioners who have been bereaved
  • Annual bereavement mass with guest speaker
  • Monthly group sessions
  • One-to-one support
  • Rituals
  • Free service run by volunteers

BEDFORD ROW FAMILY PROJECT LTD

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Franciscan Hall, Lower Bedford Row
County: Limerick
Contact name: Larry De Cléir
Phone number: 061-315332
Opening Hours: Main Centre - Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Prison Hospitality Centre - Monday to Saturday 10.00am - 12.00pm & 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • The Bedford Row Family Project seeks to facilitate the families of prisoners, as a group sharing common interests, to identify the needs and issues which are of importance to them, to develop strategies to address those issues and needs, to carry those strategies through to implementation and to monitor and evaluate their progress
  • Information, referral and advocacy service for the families of prisoners
  • Outreach to families affected by imprisonment
  • Parenting skills programmes
  • Life skills programmes
  • Focus on young mothers and their children
  • Raise awareness of issues of imprisonment to Gardai, prison officers etc.
  • Christmas and summer programmes
  • Counselling service is available for free

HOSPITAL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Knockainey Rd, Hospital
County: Limerick
Phone number: 061-383884
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • One-to-one counselling service is available at a low cost (based on ability to pay)

ST. MUNCHIN'S FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 26-28 Clonconnane Road, Ballynanty
County: Limerick
Phone number: 061-326623
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am - 9.30pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Limerick Northside
  • Counselling service available at a low cost

FEDAMORE LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Fedamore
County: Limerick
Contact name: Josephine Ryan / Fr. Mike Cussen
Phone number: 061-390341 / 061-390112
Opening Hours: September to May - one night per month
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to provide support to the bereaved and to educate the group on grief and the tasks of grief
  • We host presentations by visiting speakers

ABBEYFEALE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Mountmahon, Abbeyfeale
County: Limerick
Contact name: Sr. Delia Curtin
Phone number: 068-31203
Opening Hours: Monday 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Other details:
  • The group aims to provide a welcoming and understanding environment, support and time for those suffering the pain of bereavement
  • We provide appropriate literature and booklets
  • The service is available for free

THE BLUE BOX CREATIVE LEARNING CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: LEDP, Roxboro Road
County: Limerick
Contact name: Mark Lloyd
Phone number: 061-315070
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The Blue Box aims to help vulnerable children, young people and families to realise their potential through creative therapies
  • Group Music Therapy Programme for parents and infants
  • Therapist supervision
  • Service is available for free in schools, and on a sliding scale based on ability to pay at our own premises

Longford

LONGFORD WOMEN'S LINK

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Willow House, Ardnacassa Avenue
County: Longford
Contact name: Tess Murphy
Phone number: 043-41511
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • Aim to enable the women of Longford to fulfill their potential in a safe and equal society
  • Domestic violence support service
  • Childcare
  • Education and training
  • Variety of other women's groups
  • Counselling is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

Louth

DUNDALK CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ardee Terrace, Ardee Road, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Stephen Murphy
Phone number: 042-9327094
Opening Hours: by appointment
Other details:
  • Provide pastoral counselling, with an evangelical Christian ethos, free of charge to the community (unsolicited gifts accepted)

DUNDALK COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Oakdene, 3 Seatown Place, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Lillie Dullaghan
Phone number: 042-9338333 (Fax: 042-9333042)
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 9.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to provide affordable therapeutic counselling services to the north east region, including Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Cavan.
  • We provide the service to all within in the community regardless of their social class, race or religious persuasion
  • We provide counselling to families, couples, adolescents, children and individual adults
  • Our staff also work with persons with addictions or low self-esteem, who have suffered sexual, physical or emotional abuse or who feel suicidal or anxious
  • Counselling is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

GARY KELLY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Georges Street, Drogheda
County: Louth
Contact name: Ann Tracey or Phil Harford
Phone number: 041-9805100
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 4.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm, open till 9.00pm on Tuesdays
Other details:
  • We are committed to providing support, counselling and complimentary therapies to people living with cancer and their families, in a safe and holistic environment
  • The following services are also on offer:
              - reflexology
              - tai chi
              - yoga
              - art therapy
              - creative writing
              - lectures and workshops 
              - prosthesis and wig fitting
              - relaxation and visualisation
  • Our support, therapy and counselling services are available free of charge 

DROGHEDA COMMUNITY SERVICES

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Scarlet Crescent, Drogheda
County: Louth
Contact name: Margaret McCullen
Phone number: 041-9836084
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm and 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the organisation is to provide the social services that meet the needs of the community
  • Other services on offer:
                   - daycare
                   - provision of phone alarms for older persons
                   - chiropody
                   - legal aid and advice
                   - counselling courses
  • Our service is available for free
     

DROGHEDA SENIOR CITIZENS INTEREST GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Unit 8, Mayoralty Street, Drogheda
County: Louth
Contact name: Dave Turner
Phone number: 1800-200-459
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 2.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide information, care and support for older people
  • The service is available for free

O'FIAICH COLLEGE PASTORAL CARE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Hoeys Lane, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Sandra Woods
Phone number: 042-9331398
Opening Hours: Tuesday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Provide one-to-one counselling for individuals experiencing bereavement and family issues
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY HOUSE OF PRAYER

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 34 Point Road, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Sr. Briege Murphy / Sr. Jean Kelly
Phone number: 042-9331602
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to provide a place of hospitality and peace for all people, especially those who need support and encouragement in their personal and/or family lives, relationships etc.
  • We offer the following services:
                  - retreat work
                  - prayer groups
                  - telephone prayer service
                  - spiritual direction
                  - workshops
                  - accompaniment
  • The service is available for free (donations are accepted)

FAMILY MINISTRY DUNDALK

Type(s): Rainbows,Marriage Preparation,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Armagh Diocesan Pastoral Centre, The Magnet, The Demesne, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Rhoda Curran
Phone number: 042-9336393
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of the Family Ministry is to provide supports that strengthen family life, such as counselling for those who have experienced trauma, bereavement and family disruption, bereavement support for separated and widowed, support for young people and marriage preparation courses
  • Parenting/effective living skills
  • Trauma recovery programme
  • Safeguarding children
  • Faith development programme
  • Life in the spirit seminars
  • Service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

APPLE TREE FOUNDATION

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Roden House, Roden Place, Dundalk
County: Louth
Contact name: Pearl Deery
Phone number: 042-9329532
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 1.30pm (office hours), the foundation is open 7 days per week depending on the programme
Other details:
  • The vision of the Apple Tree is to create a supportive relational environment where young people in our community are welcomed, valued and encouraged to get in touch with and express their individual gifts through creativity and the arts
  • Our aim is to work in partnership with the young people, key agencies and youth services providers to develop and provide the following services and facilities:
                  - a vibrant and dynamic youth cafe
                  - a youth information service
                  - a programme of creative training opportunities using a range
                  of methodologies - drama, music, photography, creative writing,
                  crafts, dance and film
                  - an exhibition space for young people's artistic work
                  - a performance space and youth theatre
                  - professional counselling for young people
                  - art therapy
                  - meditation room to support the spiritual growth of
                  young people
                  - garden space
  • The service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

Mayo

KNOCK COUNSELLING SERVICE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Knock Shrine, Knock
County: Mayo
Contact name: Fiona McCarthy
Phone number: 094-9375032
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Knock Counselling Service aims to:
                   - provide high quality and professional counselling services to 
                   people over the age of eighteen
                   - be accessible; the service operates a system of self-referral 
                   and counselling services are provided irrespective of financial
                   circumstances (people chose the fee they pay for sessions)
                   - be responsive; developing therapeutic services according 
                   to the needs of the community 
                   - provide therapeutic services based on the principles
                   of respect, unconditional valuing commitment to 
                   authenticity and the development of a complete understanding
                   of the person and the issues they experience
                  
  • Other services offered:
                   - a drop-in service open every Saturday and Sunday (11.00am -
                   6.00pm) from April to October, and one day a week
                   during the winter months               
                   - supervision services are available for accredited
                   counsellors
                   - group work and training 

FAMILY LIFE SERVICES

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Family Centre, Chapel Street, Castlebar
County: Mayo
Contact name: Cathal Kearney
Phone number: 094-9025900
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Family Life Services aims to:
              - provide support for families and individuals through counselling,  
              education and training
              - care for those in crisis
              - advance family welfare
              - develop support services on an outreach basis
  • Support for families that are separated
  • Mediation
  • Legal advice
  • Spiritual enrichment
  • CURA
  • Some services are available for free - others on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

WESTERN ALZHEIMERS

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Main Street, Ballindine
County: Mayo
Contact name: John Grant
Phone number: 094-9364900
Other details:
  • Western Alzheimers aims to:
              - develop and maintain an organisation in the west of Ireland
              for the on-going care of persons suffering from alzheimers disease
              - support carers through the provision of services and facilities
              best suited to their needs
              - provide counselling and bereavement support to families who
              suffer the loss of a loved one through alzheimers disease
              - create awareness of the effect of the disease on families
  • In-home support service in the community
  • Respite care in Marian House, Ballindine, Co. Mayo
  • Long stay and respite in Mayfield, Athenry, Co. Galway
  • Day care facility in both homes
  • Respite service available at a low cost; free community care

WESTPORT FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Fairgreen, Westport
County: Mayo
Phone number: 098-24419
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Westport Town
  • Counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

MAYO CANCER SUPPORT ASSOCIATION LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: "Rock Rose House", 32 St. Patrick's Avenue, Castlebar
County: Mayo
Contact name: Angela Kirrane
Phone number: 094-9038407
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Offer emotional support to people with cancer and to their families and friends
  • Bereavement support group
  • Counselling
  • Information services
  • Stress management
  • Survivors group
  • Yoga
  • Massage
  • Reflexology
  • Aromatherapy
  • Art
  • Drop-in listening service
  • Bra-fitting and wig-fitting
  • All services are provided for free

Meath

DOWDSTOWN COUNSELLING SERVICES LTD

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Dowdstown House, Dalgan, Navan
County: Meath
Contact name: Rose D King
Phone number: 046-9021407
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm (office)
Other details:
  • Dowdstown Counselling Service Ltd aims to:
               - provide high quality, affordable counselling in consultation with
               other agencies
               - empower and support clients to live full and worthwhile lives
               - provide our service in a safe, secure and nurturing environment
  • The service is open to all from Co. Meath but is particularly aimed at people who experience social exclusion
  • We offer all forms of counselling: addiction, suicidal, sexual abuse, eating disorders, assault, trauma, anxiety, anger management, parenting, financial problems and depression
  • Child counselling for 16 - 18 years old only
  • The service is available on a sliding scale

AMEN

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Anne's Resource Centre, Railway Street, Navan
County: Meath
Contact name: Niamh McGrath
Phone number: 046-9023718
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Out of hours helpline - 086-1947270 / 086-7941880
Other details:
  • Confidential helpline and support service for male victims of domestic abuse and their children
  • Court accompaniment
  • Group support meetings
  • One-to-one support
  • Information meetings
  • Counselling
  • Our services are available for free - donations are welcome

RAINBOWS ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT (NAVAN)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Joseph's Convent Primary School, Railway St, Navan
County: Meath
Phone number: 046-9021989
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.20am - 3.00pm
Other details:
  • We provide peer support to children dealing with a death, separation or any other painful transition in their lives
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

KELLS PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 5 Church Street, Kells
County: Meath
Phone number: 046-9247161
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The service is available at a low cost

Monaghan

BLAYNEY BLADES

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Iontas, Conabury, Castleblayney
County: Monaghan
Contact name: Olive Bolger
Phone number: 042-9753410 / 404 / 411 / 412
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Blayney Blades aims to provide affordable counselling locally and emergency counselling in times of death and separation
  • Other services offered
                  - education and training programmes
                  - information talks
                  - workshops
                  - annual seminar
                  - personal development programmes
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost based on ability to pay

DÓCHAS FOR WOMEN

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Teach na nDaoine FRC, 1, Oriel Road, Mullaghmatt, Monaghan Town
County: Monaghan
Contact name: Ursula McKenna or Marie Ward
Phone number: 047-71640
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 4.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 3.00pm, 24hour answering service
Other details:
  • Dóchas encourages and supports all women to become actively involved in self and community
  • Other services offered:
                   - listening ear service
                   - drop-in centre
                   - up to date advice and information
                   - personal development and progressional courses
                   - variety of support groups (Traveller, lone parents, asylum 
                   seekers)  
                   - back to education programmes
                   - on-going support and encouragement for those in need
  • Individual circumstances are considered with regard to payment for counselling services (donations accepted on a sliding scale based on ability to pay)

MONAGHAN BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 32 Park Street
County: Monaghan
Contact name: Lily McMahon
Phone number: 047-82196
Other details:
  • Support those grieving for the loss of a loved one in Monaghan parish and its surrounding areas
  • Service is voluntary, free, confidential and non-judgemental

LIFE SUPPORT (SUICIDE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 19/20 Rear Office Park St, Monaghan Town
County: Monaghan
Contact name: Patricia O'Connell
Phone number: 047-72606 / Lo-Call: 1890-555121
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • We support family members and friends in the aftermath of a suicide through the provision of the following services:
                    - one-to-one support
                    - group support
                    - information on entitlements e.g. death grants
                    - referral to counselling services
                    - training courses through Fás
  • Counselling services are available at a low cost

ST. LOUIS SECONDARY SCHOOL

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Monaghan Town
County: Monaghan
Contact name: Vera O'Brien
Phone number: 047-81422
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 3.55pm
Other details:
  • We provide Rainbows for students who have suffered loss either through bereavement or separation
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

Offaly

TULLAMORE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Parish Centre, Benburb Street, Tullamore
County: Offaly
Contact name: Margaret Kelly
Phone number: 057-9326604
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm & 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Other details:
  • The group aims to provide support, comfort and a listening ear to bereaved people within the locality and its surrounding areas
  • Confidential phone service
  • Specially commissioned cards are sent to bereaved families
  • Bereavement service is free
  • General counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

ARDEN VIEW COMMUNITY AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Arden View, Tullamore
County: Offaly
Phone number: 057-9320598
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.30pm
Other details:
  • The counselling service is available at a low cost

CLARA COMMUNITY & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Parochial Hall, River St, Clara
County: Offaly
Phone number: 057-9331928
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm (open during lunch)

FERBANE BEREAVEMENT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Presbytery, Ferbane
County: Offaly
Contact name: Fr. Francis Murray
Phone number: 090-6454380
Opening Hours: A member of the group is available at all times
Other details:
  • Counselling and support to people who have lost a love one, through speaking to them, providing them with leaflets and prayer 
  • Free service to all bereaved

LIVING LINKS MIDLANDS

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Brocca Rd, Mucklagh, Tullamore
County: Offaly
Contact name: Bernie Carroll
Phone number: 086-1600641
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday - no time limit
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to provide practical help, advice and support to individual families and groups who have experienced a loss by suicide and to maintain standards of good practice in supporting the suicide bereaved
  • We are a non-profitable organisation and our service is provided for free

Roscommon

FAMILY LIFE CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Knocknashee, Boyle
County: Roscommon
Phone number: 071-9663000
Opening Hours: 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday (closed 1-2)
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Boyle and environs (including parts of Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim and Roscommon)
  • One-to-one counselling services available at a low cost (having regard to ability to pay)

THE FAMILY INSTITUTE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Pound Street, Ballaghaderreen
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Ethna O'Grady
Phone number: 094-9861000
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm, some evenings till 8.00pm
Other details:
  • The Family Institute aims to provide a high quality, confidential and accessible family therapy and counselling service
  • We also provide related outreach and support services
  • Individual: relationship problems, grief, loss, depression, sexual abuse
  • Couples: conflict resolution, communication skills, separation etc.
  • Families: parenting issues, bereavement
  • Children: behavioural and emotional issues, bereavement, development issues
  • The service is available at a low cost, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

CUAN AIRE FAMILY LIFE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Patrick's Street, Castlerea
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Anne Hawkshaw
Phone number: 094-9620057
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • We aim to assist people who are disadvantaged and distressed by family matters, and help children who have experienced a loss through bereavement or separation
  • The service is available at a low cost
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

VITA HOUSE FAMILY CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Abbey Street, Roscommon Town
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Mary Lee
Phone number: 090-6625898
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm, counselling/psychotherapy early morning and late evening by appointment
Other details:
  • Vita House is a community and voluntary organisation, which responds to the needs of families in Co. Roscommon and surrounding areas.  It offers a wide range of enrichment and educational programmes, workshops and seminars, services and supports, as well as professional counselling to families, individuals, couples and groups
  • We aim to address disadvantage in its many forms and maintain the focus on vulnerable/marginalised groups in research and in developing services
  • Family mediation
  • Support to family or child affected by domestic violence, and also one to one work with perpetrators of domestic violence
  • Parenting Assertiveness Skills Programme
  • Adult Education and Training
  • Positive Parenting - a facilitated supportive programme, empowering parents to deal confidently and effectively with the demands of parenting
  • Seminars and workshops promoting development of family and personal relationships
  • Outreach services
  • The counselling service is free to those who can't afford to pay.  For those on a limited income we offer the service for a low cost, and for those who can afford to pay it is available on a sliding scale

YOUTH WORK IRELAND - ROSCOMMON/N.E. GALWAY

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Abbey St
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Liam Moroney
Phone number: 090-9678322
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm, after hours contact by phone
Other details:
  • We aim to assist young people with their personal and social development
  • Youth information services
  • Health education and promotion
  • Community youth work
  • Personal development training
  • Youth projects and programmes
  • Service is available for free

CO. ROSCOMMON DISABILTY SUPPORT GROUP LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Derrane
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Margaret Bourke
Phone number: 090-6625852
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Promotes independence and equality for people with disabilities
  • "Daybreak Solutions" - people with disabilities can visit us for a few hours to enjoy the company of others and avail of the range of activities we have on offer, including board games, computer classes, short walks and arts and crafts; this also offers some respite for carers
  • Information service provides much needed advice and assistance on issues such as benefits etc.
  • Provide a mini-bus service which is fully accessible - we will collect our clients and then bring them home
  • Counselling service is available at a low cost

BEGINNING EXPERIENCE (WEST OF IRELAND)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
County: Roscommon
Contact name: Daisy O'Reilly
Phone number: 087-2431375
Other details:
  • We support adults to heal the loss and grief arising from a death, separation or divorce
  • The service is available for free

Sligo

ST MICHAEL'S FAMILY LIFE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Church Hill
County: Sligo
Contact name: Eileen Sheridan
Phone number: 071-9170329
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4.00pm (office), 9.30am - 10.30pm (centre)
Other details:
  • St. Michael's Family Life Centre aims to:
              - promote the well-being of individuals and families
              - affirm the uniqueness of all irrespective of age, status, social class
              or religion
              - enable and empower families in the local community
              - work in co-operation with other statutory or voluntary agencies
  • We offer a number of educational courses: stress management; parenting; and support groups
  • Support groups
  • Voluntary contributions are accepted for the counselling services we provide
  • Courses are available at a low cost

SLIGO SOCIAL SERVICE COUNCIL

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Charles Street
County: Sligo
Phone number: 071-9145682
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Sligo Social Services Council is a voluntary organisation, limited by guarantee, established to respond to the needs of individuals, families and communities in the Sligo region, with a view to promoting justice, equality and the dignity of the human being
  • We seek to address these needs respectfully by empowerment, support and encouragement and where appropriate through the direct assistance of caring, competent and professional individuals deployed on a full-time, part-time and voluntary basis
  • Other services offered:
                    - accommodation services
                    - pre-school and after-school services
                    - programmes for women and children affected by domestic
                      abuse
                    - home management advisory service
                    - social work service
  • Some of our services are available for free, others are available at a low cost (sliding scale based on ability to pay)

Tipperary

SPAFIELD FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Old Road, Cashel
County: Tipperary
Phone number: 062-63622
Opening Hours: 9.00am to 11.00pm Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • Catchment area - Cashel urban and rural electoral area (rural areas within a 15 mile radius of Cashel)
  • Individual and family counselling provided
  • Psychotherapy for people who have suffered bereavement, separation, depression, anxiety, etc.
  • Rainbow peer support counselling for children
  • Counselling services available at a low cost

KNOCKANRAWLEY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Knockanrawley, Tipperary Town
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Sean McSweeney
Phone number: 062-52688
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Knockanrawley Resource Centre aims to:
             - enable and empower individuals and groups, through the process 
             of self-development and working together, to identify and make
             changes that enhance their lives and the community in general
             - develop affordable, accessible community based education and
             training opportunities for skills, personal and group development, to
             enable individuals and groups reach their full potential
             - develop affordable childcare
             - develop a quality and accessible family therapy and counselling
             service
  • Other services offered include:
             - organic gardening
             - women's and men's groups
             - parent support programme
  • Our services are available either for free, or, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

THREE DRIVES FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 22/23 Greenane Drive, Tipperary Town
County: Tipperary
Phone number: 062-80831
Other details:
  • We provide counselling in the form of art therapy, especially for children in relation to parental separation and on the death of a family member
  • The service is provided on a donation basis and discretion is used regarding each individual's ability to pay

SUICIDE UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT (SUAS) - FOR THOSE BEREAVED BY SUICIDE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o "Caragh", Brittas Rd, Thurles
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Antóin O Briain
Phone number: 0504-21476 / 0872379339
Opening Hours: All day, everyday - phone on answering machine at 0504-26366
Other details:
  • The aim of the group is to provide listening support for those bereaved by suicide
  • Other services offered:
                 - talks on suicide awareness
                 - links with appropriate HSE services
  • Our service is available for free

ST. MICHAEL'S BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Michael's Road, Tipperary
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Fr. Padraig Corbett
Phone number: 062-51283
Other details:
  • The primary role of the Group is to offer support to the bereaved; we visit and invite them to a mass and for a cup of tea and biscuits afterwards (three times a year)
  • We have leaflets available to suit individual bereavements
  • Our service is available for free

THURLES BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Stannix House, Thurles,
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Sr. Clement O'Brien
Phone number: 086-8904369
Other details:
  • The group aims to offer support to bereaved individuals and families
  • Individuals and families are visited by a member of our group during the days following their bereavement, while a bereavement leaflet is issued to all bereaved.  These visits continue as long as is necessary
  • An annual mass for the bereaved is organised
  • We refer people for counselling where such is required
  • Our services are available free of charge

BETHANY BORRISOKANE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Borrisokane
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Geraldine Duggan
Phone number: 086-8060636
Opening Hours: Seven days a week 7.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Our group aims to help and support the bereaved
  • The service is available for free

PRESENTATION SECONDARY SCHOOL

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Dungarvan Road, Clonmel
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Anne Breen
Phone number: 052-23587
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm (school terms)
Other details:
  • We support students who are suffering due to family breakdown or a bereavement
  • Student counsellor is employed by the school for 10 hours a week
  • The service is available for free

NORTH TIPPERARY COMMUNITY SERVICES

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Loreto House, Kenyon St, Nenagh
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Geraldine Cronin
Phone number: 067-31800
Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 10.00am - 4.00pm, Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • The mission of North Tipperary Community Services is to enhance the quality of life in our area by helping people to participate in their own personal development and in the development of people in their communities
  • We have a special concern for families, the elderly and individuals and groups in vulnerable situations
  • We work in co-operation and partnership with other caring agencies, statutory and voluntary
  • Respect, justice and compassion are the values which inform our work
  • We also offer the following services:
                - parenting education
                - community mothers programme
                - community development
                - elderly service
  • Counselling available at a low cost, all other services are free

TEMPLEMORE COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Bank Street, Templemore
County: Tipperary
Contact name: Sr. Mary Moloney
Phone number: 0504-31244
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Templemore Community Services Centre aims to:
              - provide people of Templemore and its surrounding areas
              with professional and voluntary services to alleviate social
              and personal problems
              - enable and develop personal and community potential
              - co-operate with statutory and community groups in achieving 
              these ends
  • We are a non-profit making organisation funded by public services and voluntary agencies
  • Day care centre for the elderly
  • Pre-school service

Waterford

ST BRIGID'S FAMILY AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 37 Lower Yellow Road
County: Waterford
Phone number: 051-375261
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 6.00pm
Other details:
  • Counselling services available free of charge

FAMILY MINISTRY (WATERFORD)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St John's Pastoral Centre, John's Hill
County: Waterford
Contact name: Anna Brady
Phone number: 051-858772
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4.30pm
Other details:
  • Provide a safe environment for grieving individuals, families and groups to be helped through counselling and bereavement support
  • Support groups for the suicide bereaved
  • Individual counselling for those who experience difficulties arising from unresolved issues in their lives
  • Personal development courses for volunteers
  • Service is available for free - donations are accepted

THE MEN'S DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 30 O'Connell Street
County: Waterford
Contact name: Michael Dillon
Phone number: 051-844260
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • The Men's Development Network's mission statement is:
    "Better lives for men, better lives for all"
  • We aim to support all men whose lives are affected by marginalisation
  • Other services offered include:
                  - men's health support and training
                  - MEND - domestic violence intervention programme (see
                  www.mend.ie)
                  - men's groups and development programmes
                  - support for traveller men
                  - back to education and employment support
  • Our service is available for free

RAINBOWS BALLYBEG

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Saviour's National School, Ballybeg
County: Waterford
Phone number: 051-372621
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.50am - 2.30pm
Other details:
  • We offer support to children who have experienced loss through bereavement, separation or divorce
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

WEST WATERFORD BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: c/o Ring Post Office, Ring, Dungarvan
County: Waterford
Contact name: Maire Breathnach
Phone number: 058-46100 / 087-2234452
Other details:
  • Provide a voluntary service to the bereaved and will journey with them for as long as it takes
  • Service is available for free

SOUTH EASTERN CANCER FOUNDATION

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 7 Sealy Close, Earlscourt
County: Waterford
Contact name: Ursula Breslin
Phone number: 051-876629
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Support people affected by cancer, as well as their families and carers
  • The services we offer are available for free

Westmeath

ATHLONE COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL LTD

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Dr Dobbs Memorial Home, Northgate Street, Athlone
County: Westmeath
Contact name: Liz Fletcher
Phone number: 090-6472174
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • ACSC is a voluntary organisation primarily aimed at providing community care services to the people of Athlone
  • Supports for older people
  • Community childcare provision
  • Supports for those who experience domestic violence
  • Counselling service for women and children in crisis
  • Supports for parents and family
  • Meeting/training room facilities
  • Information/referral service
  • Administrative/technical assistance to affiliated groups and communities
  • Our services are available for free

BETHANY ST CAMILLUS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Camillus Nursing Centre, Killucan
County: Westmeath
Contact name: Nancy McDermott
Phone number: 087-9117432
Opening Hours: The group meets on the last Thursday of each month or on request
Other details:
  • The group aims to support all types of bereavement
  • The service is available free of charge
  • We also meet in Griffinstown, Kinnegad, Co Westmeath

NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELLING LTD

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Baskin High, Drumraney, Athlone
County: Westmeath
Contact name: Tom Moran or Christine Earley
Phone number: 044-9356600
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm (answering service outside of these hours)
Other details:
  • New Beginnings Counselling aims to support, encourage and educate people towards wholeness and effective living by providing a compassionate, confidential and professional service
  • Other services offered:
               - personal and group therapy (as well as supervision)
               - personal development training
               - stress management courses and other therapeutic workshops
               are facilitated at our centre
  • Our counselling service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay (this is negotiated with the individual counsellor)
  • We have six counsellors available to work with clients
                 

LAKELAND AREA RETREAT CANCER CENTRE (LARCC)

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ballinalack, Mullingar
County: Westmeath
Contact name: Debbie Maher
Phone number: 044-9371971
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm, Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • The aim of our service is to support people who have lost a family member from cancer and help them through their grieving process
  • One-to-one counselling
  • 10 week bereavement course
  • Social group once a month
  • Breast care service, bra and prosthesis fitting
  • Residential weeks
  • We offer 8 free sessions of counselling and/or complimentary therapies

Wexford

FAMILY LIFE SERVICE

Type(s): Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation,Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St Bridget's Centre, Roche's Road
County: Wexford
Contact name: Maria Kennedy
Phone number: 053-9123086
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 1.00pm
Other details:
  • CURA
  • General counselling also offered
  • The service is free; people who are in a position to make a donation are encouraged to do so

SOUTH WEST WEXFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Ramsgrange, New Ross
County: Wexford
Contact name: Jane Caulfield
Phone number: 051-389418
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • South West Wexford Community Development Project aims to promote social inclusiveness and provide a wide range of programme and activity supports as a resource for the community
  • To work on projects that have an anti-poverty and anti-exclusion focus
  • Services offered include:
             - Sugradh Childcare Centre catering from 1 years to playschool
             - free internet and a wide range of computer courses available
             - women's and men's groups
             - parent and toddler group
             - rural bus programme
             - gardening group
             - youth cafe
             - young boys group
             - support people to return to education
             - FÁS scheme
  • Some of our services are available free of charge, while others are available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay

SENIOR CITIZENS CONCERN LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Louis Day Care Centre, Ramsgrange, New Ross
County: Wexford
Phone number: 051-389509
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday (phone contact)

FDYS - YOUTH WORK IRELAND

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Francis St
County: Wexford
Contact name: Kieran Donohoe
Phone number: 053-9123262
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.00am - 10.00pm
Other details:
  • Mission Statement:
    To work with young people and adults in Co. Wexford, to enable
    them to gain for themselves, the knowledge, feelings and skills
    to realise their full potential and, in so far as possible, to
    empower them to take control of their own lives.
  • All services are available for free

BRIDGETOWN SCHOOL COMPLETION PROGRAMME

Type(s): Child Counselling,Bereavement Counselling/Support,Rainbows
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Bridgetown Vocational College, Bridgetown
County: Wexford
Contact name: Anne O'Brien
Phone number: 086-1712011
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Other details:
  • Bridgetown School Completion Programme aims to:
                - retain young people in the formal education system up to
                completion of the senior cycle, or equivalent
                - offer routine supports in primary and post-primary schools
                towards the prevention of educational disadvantage
  • Personal developments groups
  • Mentoring
  • Drama, music, sports and dance
  • Homework club
  • Social skills groups
  • Youth project
  • Attendance tracking
  • AccleRead - AccleWrite
  • Summer programmes
  • The service is available for free

Wicklow

RAINBOWS BRAY

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Holy Redeemer Parish Centre, Herbert Road, Bray
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Sr. Sheila O'Kelly
Phone number: 01-2868413
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Help young children and young adults to cope with a bereavement, the separation of a parent or any serious loss
  • The service is available for free
  • For further information on the Rainbows programme:
             - Telephone: 01-4734175
             - Website: www.rainbowsireland.com

BRAY CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 36B Main Street, Bray
County: Wicklow
Phone number: 01-2866966
Opening Hours: Drop-in centre: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm, outside these hours by appointment
Other details:
  • Provide emotional support and practical help to those affected by cancer
  • Other services offered include:
                   - respite breaks
                   - telephone support service
                   - home and hospital visiting
                   - public health classes
                   - lending library
                   - alternative therapies including massage
                   - hospital transport
  • All services are provided free of charge

BRAY SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Holy Redeemer Parish Centre, Herbert Road, Bray
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Sr. Sheila O'Kelly
Phone number: 01-2868413
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
Other details:
  • Help families bereaved by suicide
  • Help people in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, e.g. inform them of their entitlements with regard to funeral grants, inquest, coroner's court, social welfare allowance etc.

SOPHIA COUNSELLING CENTRE

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling,Marriage/Relationship Counselling,Marriage Preparation
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Slí an Chroí, St Patrick's, Kiltegan
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Séamus Whitney
Phone number: 059-6473488 / 086-1225198 (text)
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 9.00pm
Other details:
  • Sophia Counselling Centre aims to provide quality and affordable counselling in a warm, safe and confidential environment which makes healing and recovery possible
  • We place great emphasis on taking responsibility for one's own life, empowering the client and helping them to get in touch with their own resources
  • Workshops on personal development and growth towards maturity
  • Addiction counselling
  • Group therapy
  • Our service is available on a sliding scale based on ability to pay (lack of money will not prevent access)

BETHANY GREYSTONES SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Holy Rosary Parish, Greystones
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Sadie O'Shea
Phone number: 01-2874025
Opening Hours: Thursday evenings by appointment or 10.30am - 11.30am on the first Friday of every month in St. Killians Family Centre (contact the above number for further details)
Other details:
  • The group aims to support the bereaved through the grieving process
  • The service is available for free

FRIENDS OF THE BEREAVED

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Arus Lorcain, Castle Park, Arklow
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Pauline O'Boyle or Cecilia O'Reilly
Phone number: 0402-32740 / 0402-39069
Opening Hours: Contact 0402-39069 between 10.30am and 4.30pm from Monday to Friday
Other details:
  • We visit and support bereaved families in the Arklow parish
  • We also hold a special annual mass for the bereaved
  • The service is available for free

WICKLOW CHILD & FAMILY PROJECT

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support,Child Counselling
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: The Mall, Wicklow Town
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Christine Keegan
Phone number: 0404-64725
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am - 1.00pm & 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Other details:
  • Wicklow Child & Family Project was established to provide services that improve the quality of life for children and their families who are at risk
  • We aim to work with and support families in crisis within the community, so that they become more confident and feel empowered
  • The following services are offered:
                   - parenting support
                   - family learning programme
                   - support and information
                   - drop-in service
                   - liaison with other agencies
  • The first 8 weeks of counselling is provided for free - further sessions are offered at a low cost
  • All other services are available for free
      

OLD COOLATTIN COUNTRY LTD

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: Carnew Enterprise Centre, Woolgreen, Carnew
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Anne Kavanagh
Phone number: 053-9426555
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Other details:
  • Old Coolattin Country aims to 
             - identify and address the needs of our community and minimise
             social disadvantage
             - develop social capital
             - maxmise access to training and employment opportunities
             for marginalised people
  • Other services offered:
             - adult education and training
             - small business support service
             - secretarial and reception services
             - community information services
             - youth cafe
             - parent and toddler group
  • Bereavement counselling and support service is available for free
               

BETHANY KILQUADE/DELGANY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: St. Patrick's, Kilquade
County: Wicklow
Phone number: 01-2819658 (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 10.00am - 2.00pm)
Opening Hours: One-to-one by appointment or 8.00pm third tuesday of each month in St. Thererse Room, Delgany Monastery
Other details:
  • We aim to provide a listening ear to anyone who has lost a loved one and needs support through the grieving process
  • Books on death, dying and grieving are available on loan
  • The service is available for free

BETHANY WICKLOW / ASHFORD BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Type(s): Bereavement Counselling/Support
Service Provider Type: Counselling Organisation
Street address: 22 Keatingstown, Friars Hill, Wicklow Town,
County: Wicklow
Contact name: Imelda Greene
Phone number: 0404 61726
Other details:
  • To support and help people who have been bereaved.
  • The service is free and staffed by volunteers.