{"id":143971,"date":"2025-05-30T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143971\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:27:18","slug":"sligo-counsellor-who-helps-fill-the-gap-in-mental-health-support-for-young-people-receives-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143971\/","title":{"rendered":"Sligo counsellor who helps fill the gap in mental health support for young people receives award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Allen Gilhooly with his award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8bc17ada-b21a-4c06-848b-7c93ab28bc9a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Allen Gilhooly with his award<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Allen Gilhooly of Skreen, County Sligo has been honoured with the West\/North West Regional Award by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy at its 10th Annual Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The IACP Regional Awards recognise an IACP accredited member who has made a notable contribution to the profession of counselling and psychotherapy in their local community and region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Gilhooly who is originally from Fenagh, Leitrim, has spent over 20 years working in youth work, school chaplaincy, and community development in the east of Ireland before moving back to the north west and launching his counselling initiative in Sligo for the last 15 years. Allen manages a team of seven therapists providing accessible therapy for adults across two centres in both Sligo town and Kilglass near Enniscrone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">IACP Cathaoirleach Jade Lawless commented:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI would like to congratulate Allen Gilhooly West \/ North West Regional Award. Allen has made an outstanding contribution to the counselling and psychotherapy profession across the north west region. I would like to wish him continued success and also commend the West\/ North West Regional Committee for choosing such a worthy recipient for the award. I would also like to wish Allen well with his continued professional development, another hallmark of his commitment to the profession\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Award Recipient Allen Gilhooly remarked: \u201cI am honoured to be nominated at this pivotal moment in my career. My mission has been to fill the gap in mental health support in our region, ensuring that people\u2014especially young individuals\u2014have a safe space to navigate life&#8217;s challenges. This recognition reaffirms the importance of the work we are doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Gilhooly\u2019s journey in therapy continues as he completes further studies in Cross Professional Supervision with the International College for Personal and Professional Development ICPPD in Athlone later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The annual awards ceremony was held recently at the IACP\u2019s 10th annual conference at the Maryborough Hotel, Cork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen Gilhooly with his award Allen Gilhooly of Skreen, County Sligo has been honoured with the West\/North West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,62149,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-paul-deering","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114596547546129714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}