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The Chief Executive Officer of New Life Counselling oversees the operations of the organisation and is responsible for the strategic planning of the organisation. She is supported by a team of Senior Managers who have responsibility for Clinical Services, Support Services and Development.
Three Project Officers and three Team Leaders assist in leading in the delivery of our Child & Family, Adult and Youth counselling services as well as the three geographical areas in which we deliver counselling in post primary schools.
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Karen Collins-Neill, Chief Executive
Karen joined New Life Counselling in August 2008 as the CEO having worked for 5 years in the public sector and 6 in the voluntary youth sector. She has an MBA, Post Graduate Certificate in Social Policy, Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Studies in Education and BA (Hons) in Modern History & Politics. She has significant experience in strategic planning, programme development and resource & budget management.
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Joanne Larkin, Support Services Manager
Joanne is a graduate of the Institute of Accounting Technicians for Ireland and holds a Diploma in Management. She is ECDL and RSA qualified and has 6 GCSE’s. She also has Sage Line 50 & Payroll experience and an advanced GNVQ in Health and Social Care (Dist). She has 10 years of clerical experience and 7 years experience within finance and fundraising. She is an accredited ISO Auditor Joanne joined New Life Counselling in December 1999.
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Biggi Hofmann, Adult Project Officer
Biggi joined New Life Counselling in March 2002. She has a BSc in Sociology, a Diploma in Combined Social & Behavioural Sciences, a Diploma in Counselling, an Advanced Diploma in Psychodrama Psychotherapy, and a Diploma in Creative Supervision. She has 11 years clinical practice, her approach is humanistic integrative with an emphasis on creativity. |
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Terry Gorman, Youth Project Officer
Terry joined New Life Counselling in 2010 as Assistant Team Leader for schools before undertaking the role of Youth Project Officer. Prior to working for New Life Counselling Terry had worked for 23 years as a paramedic officer with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service. It was while working as a paramedic office that Terry studied to be a counsellor. After completing his training Terry worked for Contact Youth on the Lifeline project for 2 years before taking up the post with New Life Counselling.
Through his professional experiences Terry has developed a strong interest in counselling support in relation to crisis response and trauma and is continuing studies within this area.
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Gail Calwell, Child & Family Project Officer
Gail is the Child and Family Project Officer. She has a BA Hons in Fine and Applied Arts and an MSC in Art Therapy. Previous experience includes working as an Early Intervention Therapist for Barnardos with children with Autism, family support work and running community arts programmes. Gail is the Vice Chair of NIGAT. She joined New Life Counselling in November 2006 as a child counsellor and moved into the Project Officer role in October 2008.
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Cordula Bellin, Volunteer Co-ordinator
Cordula has a degree in Psychology, and trained as a counsellor, completing the Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, a Post Qualifying Certificate in Working with Children and Young People, a level 3 qualification in Advanced Group Facilitation and Conflict Management, and introductory Gestalt Training. Her previous experience includes working for Contact Youth, ChildLine, Belfast Trust and developing Peer Education Projects. She took up the role of Volunteer Co-ordinator in September 2009.
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Grainne Donaghy, Team Leader ICSS North
Grainne has nine years (post qualification) supervised practice in counselling. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a Certificate in Counselling. Grainne joined New Life Counselling in September 2009.
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Stephanie Wethers, Team Leader ICSS East
Stephanie joined New Life Counselling in September 2009 having previously worked for Contact Youth delivering schools counselling for 2 years. Prior to that she worked independently delivering counselling in schools for the Southern Education and Library Board. Stephanie has also enjoyed working in Community Counselling, Youth Work and the Health Service. She holds a diploma in Person Centred Counselling and qualified as a Sexual Health Educator in 2004 through the Open College Network.
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Julie Liggett, Team Leader ICSS South
Julie joined New Life Counselling in September 2009 having previously worked for Contact Youth managing programmes and delivering schools counselling for 5 years. Julie has been working as a counsellor with young people for over 10 years and gained her BACP accreditation in 2007. She holds a Postgraduate diploma in Counselling and Foundation in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice.
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