Ms Trish Murphy:

Psychotherapy is slightly different. A four-year postgraduate programme is available in various institutions. Psychotherapists are slightly older so they fund themselves, for the most part. We operate a training programme in Trinity with up to 20 trainees, whom we supervise. All those trainees are offering their time for free, and that is why we can see so many students. There is no funding at all for any of the programmes. The strength is in the mix. We have assistant psychologists, clinical counselling posts and a variety of modalities represented. It makes for a very rich offering. The diversity we are looking for in our system is very hard to achieve. We cannot get people from different backgrounds to come in because it simply costs too much money.