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EMDR Institute Inc.

  • EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner

Membership

  • BACP (Snr Accred)
  • ISMA (Member)
  • AC (Associate Member)
  • EMDR UK & I (Member)

Centre for Coaching

  • Cert. in Coaching
  • Primary Cert Performance Coaching
  • Prim Cert Stress Management

University of East Anglia

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling

NUIG (Nat. Univ of Ireland, Galway)

  • Dip. In the Psychology of Counselling

NUIM (National Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth)

BD Theology

 

Joe Kearney

What really inspires me is to see people discover their true greatness.  I believe that when we were born, we were completely lovable and acceptable.  I also recognize that difficult life events affect us and that we make choices and establish patterns, which are not all helpful or useful.  And I know change is possible.  I have experienced change in my own life.  The acceptance and friendship of others made me and continues to make me who I am today.  I carry that hope and expectation of growth into my work. 

It is said that ‘variety is the spice of life’ and I have had plenty of it.  As a child and teenager, when not at school, I worked on our small family farm in Galway.  Think cows, sheep, root crops, hay, the bog (peat for fuel) and, inevitably, soft rain – but often.

Then, 7 years of university study for the priesthood. Afterwards I served on a tiny Gaelic speaking island for 3 years.  If you have watched ‘Father Ted’, then you have seen it.  For the next 10 years, my home was in a stunningly beautiful hill farming parish in County Mayo.  I then spent 10 years at Knock, an international centre of religious pilgrimage.  Each year, we welcomed about 800,000 visitors from all over the world.  I was a member of the senior management team, managing 100 staff and 1,500 volunteers. 

I came to Norfolk in 1996 and directed a voluntary sector counselling agency in Norwich for 5 years before establishing Beechmount to provide our current range of services.

Gerry Virgo

I am a counsellor with a wide variety of interests.  I have worked with people with growth and development as a focus for 20 years, in recent years as a youth counsellor.  I was the counselling services manager for a youth agency for and now as a youth counsellor.

I am passionate about being involved with people to bring out the best in each of us.  When I am with people I celebrate each moment of growth and insight.  It seems fundamental to me that each of us has a contribution to make and that this comes most freely when we accept and value ourselves just the way we are.  With commitment the changes that transform become a reality.

I am a hugely curious person. As a scientist by background, I am fascinated by what happens when we communicate.  What most engages me is the flow between us, in our relating, in our emotions and also in our own physical being.  I am greatly influenced by The Human Awareness Institute (HAI), an organisation which focuses on community and relationship in the context of love, intimacy and sexuality.

Earlier in my life, I worked as a toxicologist and a teacher.  I was fortunate to grow up on a farm in deepest rural Lincolnshire and was the first of my family to go to university.  I still enjoy the memories of herding cattle and stacking straw but now I confine myself to herding a cat and the planting and care of a hedge of native tree species. 		 

Memberships

  • BACP (Accr)
  • EMDR UK & I (Member)

EMDR Institute Inc

  • Certificate of Completion EMDR Basic training

EMDR  Europe

  • EMDR advanced skills and Child Training

Person Centred Therapy Britain

  • Diploma in Person Centred Therapy

University of East Anglia

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education

University of Lancaster

  • BA Biology
PhD Ecology

 

Beechmount takes it’s name from the farm where Joe grew up, and derives from a circle of large beech trees enclosing a local Iron Age site.  Irish people value the traditions and wisdom of earlier ages, so this sturdy mound and surrounding trench, originally dug from the earth by ancient farmers, once containing a fortified dwelling, is left undisturbed. Such places represent continuity, with trees marking the cycle of growth. Like these early peoples, we shape the world’s future as we grow. Discover how much more you have to offer - make your contribution count.

 
Beechmount provides counselling, trauma therapy,
stress management and performance coaching in Norwich and Norfolk
Beechmount - serving people's greatness