Helplink Mental Health - Galway

About Helplink Mental Health - Galway Helplink Mental Health is a charitable organisation that provides accessible counselling services 7 days a week and out-of-hours for children, young people and adults. Our counselling/therapy services include: general counselling couples counselling bereavement counselling play therapy art therapy addiction youth counselling youth addiction counselling General counselling, couples counselling, bereavement counselling, play therapy, art therapy and addiction appointments are provided face-to-face in Galway City and also Castlebar,Mayo. We also provide the following counselling services securely online nationwide: general counselling couples counselling addiction counselling bereavement counselling youth counselling youth addiction counselling Appointment Fees Discounted Fees: for general, addiction and bereavement counselling appointments the fee is €30; if you are: a full-time (third level) student a part-time counselling student a part-time worker (working less than 20 hours a week), a single parent in receipt of a social protection payments (e.g. Jobseeker’s Benefit/Allowance, Disability Benefit etc.) Note 1: you must provide evidence of your status to avail of this fee. Other specialised counselling/therapeutic services fees may vary. Note 2: For young people (under the age of 18), the appointment fee is determined by which category their parents/caregivers fall into. Employed Persons Fee: as a non-profit organisation we try to keep the fees for appointments as low as possible. For employed people the cost for a general counselling appointment is €65. Please ask about the fees for the other types of counselling appointments we offer (e.g. Play Therapy, Art Therapy & Couples Counselling); as these fees vary. Helplink counsellors are available at times to suit the client - we are open 7 days a week: Monday to Friday from 9 am to 9 pm Saturday/Sunday 12 to 6 pm Closed Christmas/New Year's eve and Bank holidays All of our counsellors are knowledgeable in many different types of therapeutic techniques. However, in the main we use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or other Solution Focused Therapies, as these techniques have been shown, through extensive international research, to work particularly well with both face-to-face and online/phone counselling. We are not a crisis counselling service if you are in need of urgent mental health care please go to your local GP or A & E.... (Show more)