The Cork Counselling Centre was founded in the early 1980s. It was one of the first centres in the country to provide a professional counselling service to members of the community regardless of financial means, religious beliefs, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or educational background. Out of this history Cork Counselling Centre & Training Institute was born. The aim of Cork Counselling Services is to educate and train students so that they attain professional counselling standards reflecting best practice nationally and internationally. We aim to foster personal responsibility, ethical and social awareness and inclusive practice in our students. CCS aims to aid students in the development of this professionalism by mutually creating an active learning environment which is inclusive, supportive and constructively challenging. CCS is run by a diverse team of professional counsellors and psychotherapists. All of our staff are either accredited by the IACP (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and/or the IAHIP (Irish Association of Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy) and/or Registered Psychologists with the PSI(Psychological Society Ireland) or are working towards accreditation. All of our counsellors and psychotherapists work within recognised codes of ethics and the highest professional standards. Our Current Training Programmes include: Foundation in Counselling Skills Diploma in Counselling Top-up Degree Programme If you are already qualified we offer supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and supervisors. The Institute is also running a two-year Certificate programme for qualified counsellors who wish to become counselling trainers and a Postgraduate Internship for graduates working towards accreditation. The Counselling Centre Training Institute is designing a Diploma in Supervision for practitioners who wish to train as supervisors. Contact us for more: info@thecounsellingcentre.ie