Counselling Service

What is counselling?

Parenting in a one-parent family means that you must take responsibility for many decisions alone and at times this can be very stressful. Family or new relationships, parenting alone or working at shared parenting, an absent parent, answering your child’s difficult questions, making major choices – these are just some of the issues that arise for one-parent families.

This is where One Family Counselling comes in – it provides confidential, personal time to talk and be really listened to by a non-judgmental counsellor. The counsellor won’t tell you what to do – she knows that you are the person best qualified to live your life and will support you towards your own solutions.

The service is open to pregnant women and expectant fathers, and to men, women, teenagers and adolescents in one-parent families. We offer a range of appointment times and provide free, on-site childcare for your children in our warm and friendly crèche.

We always try to ensure you are seen as soon as possible, and how often you attend, or for how long, will be decided between you and your counsellor.

To find out more download the One Family leaflet What is Counselling?

Types of counselling at One Family

  • General counselling supports people with on-going counselling for a wide range of parenting, family and personal issues.
  • Solution focused counselling helps you work through a particular problem.
  • Unplanned pregnancy counselling A crisis pregnancy, one that is unplanned or unexpected, can raise many issues for a woman or couple, and One Family will support you as you work through the options open to you such as parenting, adoption or abortion.
  • Post termination counselling
  • Play therapy, a form of therapy for children, is provided for children from 4 – 10 years of age.

There is no cost for crisis pregnancy and post abortion counselling support. They are funded by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency. One Family counsellors are qualified and experienced, supervised and engaged in on-going professional development.
If you would like to talk with a counsellor of find out more about any of the services please call 01 662 9212 or fill in this form