Nurture to offer more help

A national charity which offers subsidised counselling to women suffering from post-natal depression and other birth-related problems is to significantly expand its services throughout Cork.

Set up by Dublin therapist Irene Lowry in 2011, Nurture has a strict ‘no wait-list’ policy. It has 27 counsellors nationwide, 10 based in Dublin and one in Cork. The organisation provides a number of services including one-to-one counselling, telephone support and counselling, support groups, and the provision of resilience skills to women.

Nurture says it plans to increase its network of counsellors throughout the Cork region to six by the end of February, with therapists available in the city, along with west, east, and north Cork.