1School of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
2Health Service Executive, Counselling in Primary Care National Evaluation, 19 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
3Health Service Executive, 34 Brew’s Hill, Navan, Co, Meath, Ireland
4Health Service Executive, Primary Care Centre, 1st Floor Junction House, Airton Rd., Tallagh, Co, Dublin, Ireland
5Health Service Executive, Unit 8A Brulington Business Park, Srah Avenue, Tullamore, Co, Offaly, Ireland
© The Author(s) 2021
Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.