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Online Addiction Counselling · Newry
Online Addiction Counselling in Newry
Online addiction counselling for Newry, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Newry, from the city centre and the canal to the streets around the cathedral, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you
In and around Newry
Addiction Counselling for Newry, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Newry: from the city centre and the canal to Bessbrook, Meadow and the Fathom
- Known for
- The cathedral, the Newry canal and the Mourne mountains nearby
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Local NHS / support route
- ASCERT, which supports people across Northern Ireland with drug and alcohol use
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Newry
What is going on for people in Newry?
Newry lives with a border running through its ordinary week. People work on one side and sleep on the other, do the shopping at Buttercrane or the Quays, and arrange their lives around a line that barely registers most days and occasionally decides everything. Add the countryside just outside the city and a past that still sits inside families here, and you have a place where a great deal is carried privately. A habit suits that arrangement exactly. It needs no venue, no story and no alibi. Around Derrybeg, Barcroft or out towards the Fathom an evening can vanish into a phone, and nobody is any the wiser, including the person it is happening to.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Newry
BessbrookBallybotDerrybegMeadowFathomDrumalaneCarnagatBarcroft
Wherever you are in Newry, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Newry
Official figures for Newry, for context rather than as a description of you.
There were 9 drug-related deaths registered in the Newry, Mourne and Down council area in 2023, out of 169 across Northern Ireland (NI age-standardised rate 9.1 per 100,000). Source: NISRA - Drug-related and drug misuse deaths in Northern Ireland, 2023 (2023).
In Newry, Mourne and Down, 6.3% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Northern Ireland average of 5.2%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What would we do together in addiction counselling?
Addiction counselling here treats the pain beneath the habit, not just the symptom, alcohol, drugs, gambling, food or behavioural, so recovery is something you grow into rather than force.
The approach does not change with the postcode, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods and what each session covers, on the main addiction counselling page, alongside session lengths and fees and how to check my registration.
What happens in an online session?
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link, held to the same BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call, you join from any private space on a phone, tablet or laptop.
Bradley works from Hove, so this is by secure video and there is no room in the city to attend. With countryside on the doorstep that solves the distance problem: nobody has to drive twenty miles in the dark for an hour of talking. It also solves the being-seen problem. You can take a session from the house, a farm office or a parked car, and appointments can be moved when work or the roads make them impossible.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
Drugs and substances
Compassionate, confidential help with substance use.
Gambling
Breaking the cycle of compulsive gambling, guilt and debt.
Food and behavioural
Support for food and process addictions.
Affected by a loved one
Help for those living alongside someone's addiction.
The pain underneath
We treat the cause, not just the symptom.
Addiction Counselling in Newry
Why people in Newry come for addiction counselling
Addiction here covers far more than drink or drugs, and gambling is the thing people carry longest without saying. An app works in a tractor cab, on a break, at three in the morning; it needs no premises and no company. Gaming, spending and pornography take the same road. The sessions trace the sequence backwards, from the concealment to the cost to whatever it originally soothed, which is very often an old fear that never got a hearing. There were 9 drug-related deaths registered in the council area covering Newry in 2023, from 169 across Northern Ireland at an age-standardised rate of 9.1 per 100,000. Statutory support runs beside this work rather than beneath it: ASCERT provides drug and alcohol help across Northern Ireland, your GP can refer you into Health and Social Care, and Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000.
A free, unhurried first step
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callDrug, alcohol & addiction support in Newry
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Newry, your GP can refer you to local drug and alcohol services, and you can find support through ASCERT, which supports people across Northern Ireland with drug and alcohol use.
For confidential information and advice, FRANK (on 0300 123 6600) and Drinkline on 0300 123 1110 are free, and Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery run peer-support meetings you can find online.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
If you need urgent help now
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call Lifeline free on 0808 808 8000. Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
If you drink heavily or use drugs daily, do not stop suddenly on your own. Withdrawal can cause seizures and can be dangerous. Speak to your GP or a local drug and alcohol service first, and they can arrange a safe, medically supported withdrawal. Counselling works alongside that, not instead of it.
Newry questions
Online Addiction Counselling in Newry: common questions
What does the first step actually look like?
A free 15-minute consultation, arranged by email at a time that suits you. It is short on purpose. You describe as much as you want, ask what you need to, and then decide. If you go ahead, a weekly hour usually starts within a fortnight without any referral involved.
What do sessions cost here?
£80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours, with nothing charged for the first 15-minute conversation. Since no travel is attached, there is no fuel or day off to add to the fee. Payment happens per session rather than up front.
I work across the border. Does that change which service I use?
Not for counselling, which is by video wherever you happen to be that day. For statutory support, where you live is what matters: a GP referral opens Health and Social Care, and ASCERT covers drug and alcohol support across Northern Ireland regardless of which side you are working on.
I live well outside the city. Is this practical for me?
It is more practical than anything requiring a car. There is nothing to drive to, so the appointment takes an hour instead of an evening, and the telephone covers weeks when the broadband will not hold a video call. Rural distance stops being a reason to go without.
Can betting really be an addiction if I have never missed a day's work?
Yes. Work is often the last thing to go, which is why gambling runs undetected for so long. The damage shows first in money, sleep and honesty, and the effort of keeping it hidden takes more out of a person than the losses themselves usually do.
Does living near the border affect getting counselling?
Not for online support. The counsellor works across Northern Ireland by secure video from a Hove base, so wherever you are around Newry or the Mournes, you can take part from home. There is no need to travel to Belfast or across the border.
How soon can I start addiction counselling in Newry?
Usually within a week or two, wherever you are around the city or the Mournes. We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, then book a first full session. It is all online by secure video, so there is no drive to Belfast and no waiting list in Newry.
How do your fees compare with NHS addiction services in Newry?
NHS addiction support here runs through the Southern Health and Social Care Trust and is free, though referrals can be slow. My fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation, with no wait before your first session.
Can I have evening online addiction sessions in Newry?
Yes. Evening slots suit those travelling the A1 or working across the border. Sessions are held by secure video from home, from the city centre to Bessbrook or the countryside near the Mournes, so you need only a private space and a steady connection.
Online Addiction Counselling in Newry, whenever you are ready
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available online across Northern Ireland: Craigavon, Lisburn. See all of Northern Ireland.
Related work in Newry: substance use counselling, counselling for drinking problems and trauma counselling.
There is more on this in my writing: a cognitive-restructuring exercise for compulsive behaviour and the four-stage cycle of addiction.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same addiction counselling is available in person, in Hove, where the room is, or see every area I cover.