Counselling Service

Someone to Listen

As part of Vision 2000, a renewal programme established in response to a listening process which was conducted at the beginning of the new millennium, a walk-in Counselling Service was established in St. Augustine’s  Church, Limerick.

From a survey of needs and pastoral contacts the community was becoming aware of:

·         A growing sense of isolation and loneliness while the economy prospered.

·         The accelerating pace of life leaving vulnerable individuals behind.

·         Commercial development and the loss of a residential community in the inner city.

·         Declining religious practice and Parishes as centres of community no longer evident in a city context.

·         Arrival of large numbers of immigrants needing personal support, pastoral care, recovery and integration.

·         A variety of social and family problems in troublesome city suburbs and housing estates.

·         Recession putting  personal and financial stress on families and individuals.

·         Alarming increase in the incidence of suicide and self-harm.

Facilities:

Counselling rooms in the Pastoral Care Area of the church and in the Priory.
Appointments made through a well publicised phone number.
Professional counsellors give their confidential services on a donation or a voluntary basis.

For more information or to make an appointment call 061-415374