Gerry McCluskey
Gerry McCluskey is British Infertility Counselling Association’s (BICA) representative on PROGAR.
Gerry originally trained as a social worker and since 1983 has held a variety of practitioner and management posts in Family and Child Care/Child Protection Fieldwork and Family Placement (Fostering and Adoption). She has worked within both the statutory sector (Social Services) and the voluntary sector (Barnardos and Adoption Routes) in Northern Ireland.
Gerry’s role at Adoption Routes is to provide counselling for NHS and private patients who are experiencing issues with infertility as well as to birth parents whose children have been placed for adoption and adopted adults searching for their birth family. She continues to work with the full range of adoption social work tasks and provides training on the impact of infertility in adoption and the emotional impact of infertility.
Gerry has been a member of BICA since 2003 and a member of the BICA Executive since February 2010. She has also been a member of the Irish Fertility Counsellors’ Association, since its inception in 2009.
Gerry has a Masters in Social Work, an Advanced Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and is Relate trained.