Family Routes Staff Member and Counsellor
Senior Social Work Practitioner / Counsellor
Qualifications: BSSc (QUB) Dip. Social Work (Edinburgh)
Diploma HE in Counselling from the University of Ulster
AMBACP; AMBICA;
Member of the Irish Fertility Counsellors Association.
Experience: I was employed as a Social Worker initially in a hospital setting and later in a Family and Child Care Team. On joining Family Routes I spent a number of years concentrating on Adoption and Post Adoption work.
Continuing in Family Routes I am now the lead for our Fertility Counselling Service and also Next Step.
More recently I have joined as a member of Family Routes Adoption Panel.
What do you like to do in your free time? I re-upholster old chairs, and thoroughly enjoy going for a walk while catching up on Podcasts.
All time favourite TV series? ER and The West Wing.