Jennifer Griffin

With over 20 years of dedicated public service in the fields of Mental Health, eMental Health, Higher Education and Public Service Broadcasting, Jennifer offers CORU’s Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board extensive knowledge and experience of the Irish health care system gained through a wide range of clinical, management, legal and media skills gained in the public, private, corporate and charity sectors.

An experienced and accredited Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Clinical Service Manager, Jennifer is qualified and experienced in Counselling and Psychotherapy within three modalities – Integrative, Humanistic and Psychoanalytic - gained through three Irish institutes of higher learning - Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and the National University of Ireland Maynooth. 

In her roles as Director and CEO of Accord Dublin, reporting to the Board of Trustees and TUSLA, she provides leadership, stewardship and executive management of 100 counsellor and education facilitators providing marriage and relationship counselling and domestic abuse counselling for adults and couples, relationship sexuality education for primary and secondary school students and marriage education for couples preparing for married life.

As General Manager for the innovative online mental health charity Turn2me eMental Health, reporting to the Board of Trustees and the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention, she managed the development and delivery of accessible professional online Counselling and Psychotherapy nationwide for young people and adults via a 3-tiered stepped care psychosocial approach to mental health support. As an award winning Public Service Television Development Executive and Executive Producer for BBC Television in London and RTE Television developing and producing Documentaries, Current Affairs, Drama and Comedy she has extensive knowledge and experience of communications, public relations and the Irish and international media landscape. 

A passionate advocate of improving access to psychological therapies, she is currently conducting Doctoral research on eMental health interventions with the Department of Psychology in Trinity College Dublin where she currently teaches and supervises research candidates on the MPhil and MSc degrees in Psychoanalytic Studies and Psychotherapy.