SUBSIDISED COUNSELLING

The trauma experienced following the homicide can kill or damage your ability to understand what’s happened, your sense of security, your capacity to cope, and your spirit to carry on.
Counselling can play a significantly beneficial role:

• It creates a space where the bereaved feels safe to talk about their feelings.
• It helps people to deal with the enormity of their loss
• On a practical level it can provide reassurance
• It helps the bereaved to deal with many of the resultant family problems
• It assists the bereaved to feel empower to seek further information

If you are reading this now and feel counselling might help you, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone or by email. Your contact details will be passed on to our coordinator who will organise referral to one of our specially trained counsellors.

In 2006, ADVIC ran its first series of specialised homicide trauma training workshops for professional counsellors, the counsellors who successfully completed the workshops in December 2006, are now part of the AdVIC subsidised counselling scheme which has been in operation since March 2007

AdVIC initially subsidises up to ten sessions, at a maximum cost of €25(negotiable) per session for the bereaved person, AdVIC taking on the remaining cost.

The duration of counselling is reviewed on a case by case basis.

The service is available in Dublin City Centre, Rathfarnham Dublin 14; Templeogue Dublin 16 ; Clondalkin Dublin 22 and Firhouse Dublin 24

Outside of Dublin It is available in Arklow Co Wicklow; Athy Co Carlow; Ballincollig Co Cork ;Rathcoole Co Dublin; Nass Co Kildare; New Ross Co Wexford; Kilkenny City Co Kilkenny; Outrath Co Kilkenny, Blackwater Co Wexford

All subsidised counselling is funded by the Commission for the support of victims of crime, the Family Support Agency and by Donations from the public and Families bereaved by homicide.