Catríona Rodgers

Catríona is a Guidance Counsellor with DDLETB, and Vice President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors. She is from Tallaght, Dublin 24, and have studied in IT Tallaght 2005, UCD 2006, Trinity 2013 and Maynooth University 2022. Catriona is passionate about lifelong education and believes it needs to be accessible for all regardless of financial or family status.

Catríona is the President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors and has been a post primary school teacher and guidance counsellor for almost twenty years. She has worked in multiple roles including Additional Educational Needs Coordinator, Home School Community Liaison and Student Support Coordinator. The values that motivate me are inclusion and equality for all. Working with children from different backgrounds with different experiences, she values and appreciates how unique each individual is and how important it is for them to be empowered to find their pathway.

Promoting Children’s Rights across all levels of society not just for children from minority backgrounds, with additional educational needs or from disadvantaged backgrounds but for all children in all communities across Ireland. Catríona believes that true inclusion does not mean making space for others, it is the adoption of an universal design approach to education, our lives and workplaces. Empowering children and young people to advocate for themselves and enabling society to take action for positive, sustainable change. As a guidance counsellor, Catríona adopts the holistic model of guidance counselling in my interactions with learners. facilitating the educational, vocational and most importantly their personal and social development so that they are better equipped to navigate their pathway. She believes that adopting a trauma informed care approach can lead to better outcomes for children and their families.