Are you interested in serving your community? Fingal Counselling Service (FCS) is looking to recruit a person to work as Chairperson for its voluntary Management Committee for a minimum of 2 years. The Chairperson plays a valuable and vital role Read more…
Fingal Counselling Service Fingal Counselling Service is a community-based voluntary counselling service providing confidential, non-directive counselling. We are looking to recruit Student, Pre-accredited and Accredited counsellors/Psychotherapists to volunteer once a week for a minimum of 1-3 hours in our centre Read more…
We are pleased to confirm that Fingal County Council has once again supported Fingal Counselling Service through the Community Funding Scheme. This grant will enable us to continue to deliver much needed counselling services to our community. Our service is Read more…
Do you need to talk to a counsellor? Fingal Counselling Service is open to accept new clients and new referrals.Given the current restrictions on face to face contact, all assessment and counselling appointments will be completed via telephone until the Read more…
Fingal Counselling Service management are delighted to announce that a new group of counsellors will begin working with the service in January 2019. The induction training for the new counsellors took place on Nov 24th 2018. It was a very Read more…
BASE celebrated their 30th anniversary on Friday 19th May with a party in BASE resource centre, Swords. A wonderful night was had by all. Congratulations to all those involved in the celebrations. Pictured below are Eileen McCormack, Mary Forde, Mairead Read more…
Swords and District Lions Club presented Fingal Counselling Service with a cheque for €1500 towards the running costs of this invaluable service. The Lions Club has been a long-time supporter of Fingal Counselling Service providing us with funding towards training Read more…
On Thursday 8th September, the Class of 2016, joined tutors from the Fingal Counselling Service Post Graduate Certificate course in Family Therapy, to celebrate their graduation at BASE Resource Centre, Swords. The management, staff and volunteers of Fingal Counselling Service Read more…
Michelle is a past student who graduated from the 2011 Diploma in Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Course. This is her testimonial As this is our graduation, I volunteered to say a few words today on my experience on this course Read more…
Waiting
The surface is smooth,
Holding together,
Yet, like birds and creatures
of forest and plain,
I sense unseen turbulence.
The air is uneasy
The quiet full of noise
Creaking, tearing, moving.
Watchful, alert and reading the signs
Sleep is light
Waking is instant,
Another day safe and unsafe
WAITING
E. McCormack
August 2015 (more…)