Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Craigavon
Online Counselling and Therapy in Craigavon
Online counselling and therapy for Craigavon, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Craigavon, from Lurgan and Portadown to the streets around the lakes, 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 Craigavon
Counselling and Therapy for Craigavon, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Craigavon: from Lurgan and Portadown to Brownlow and the linked centre
- Known for
- The lakes, the linen heritage and the Lough Neagh shore
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Northern Ireland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Craigavon
Why do people in Craigavon reach out?
A new town can be a hard place to feel at home in, and that alone brings people to a first counselling appointment. Craigavon has good jobs, big employers and green space out at Oxford Island Nature Reserve on Lough Neagh, and people still describe a low, formless flatness they cannot account for. Some of it is the geography: no obvious centre to bump into anyone in, the retail park at Rushmere Shopping Centre standing in for a high street. Some of it is work, which for many is shift-based and uncertain. Almost nobody arrives able to say what is actually wrong, which is exactly what this kind of counselling is set up for.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Craigavon
LurganPortadownBrownlowBlearyLegahoryMandevilleDrumgaskTullygally
Wherever you are in Craigavon, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Craigavon
Official figures for Craigavon, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, 18.3% of adults reported a high anxiety score (6 or above out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, in line with the Northern Ireland average of 19.0%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, 7.3% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, in line with the Northern Ireland average of 8.2%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, 4.0% 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 counselling and therapy?
Counselling and therapy here is one steady starting point for whatever you are carrying, anxiety, low mood, addiction, relationships or the past, integrative and led by you, so we begin with what matters most and shape the work around you.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the counselling and therapy page explains it properly, how sessions run and what they cost answers the practical questions, and qualifications, registration and ethics shows how the practice is held to account.
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.
Sessions run online, by secure video, with Bradley in Hove and nothing local to travel to. For a first attempt at talking to somebody that is genuinely easier: a free 15-minute consultation, then an hour a week at £80 / 60 min, with no waiting list to join first. If you work rotating shifts at one of the bigger employers, appointment times can move with the rota instead of being lost.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
Low mood and depression
For the flatness, exhaustion and loss of interest that drain the colour from things.
Addiction and habits
Alcohol, drugs, gambling or behaviours that have stopped feeling like a choice.
Relationships
Conflict, distance and trust, as a couple or on your own.
Trauma and the past
When something you have been through still shapes your present.
Life feeling stuck
For the big transitions, losses and crossroads that leave you unsure which way to turn.
Counselling and Therapy in Craigavon
Why people in Craigavon come for counselling and therapy
This is the plainest form of the work and the usual place to begin. Nothing has to be named in advance, no diagnosis is required, and there is no test of whether your difficulty is serious enough. We start from the present tense. What is a normal week like now, what has gone out of it, what is quietly being avoided, and what would make the next month less heavy. It commonly runs between six and twenty weekly sessions and stops when you are steadier, which is a much shorter undertaking than psychotherapy and a different task from relationship counselling. It also fits around the local route: a GP referral to talking therapies through Health and Social Care, AWARE NI groups for people living with depression, Lifeline free on 0808 808 8000, and Inspire Wellbeing for wider support.
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 callFinding support in Craigavon
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Craigavon, your GP can refer you to talking therapies and counselling through Health and Social Care. You can find support through Lifeline, Northern Ireland's crisis helpline, free on 0808 808 8000.
Private sessions with me usually mean you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout; I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
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.
Craigavon questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Craigavon: common questions
I have moved here and never settled. Is that enough of a reason to book?
It is a real reason and a common one. Feeling rootless is not a small thing, and it often sits alongside low mood, poor sleep and a sense of pointlessness. You do not have to dress it up as something more serious to be taken seriously.
How soon can I start and what will it cost?
The free 15-minute consultation can generally be arranged within days. Sessions after that are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min or £120 / 120 min, paid one at a time. Nothing is bought in blocks, so you can review after a handful of appointments.
What is the NHS route in Northern Ireland?
It is your GP, who can refer you to talking therapies through Health and Social Care. The self-referral service used in England does not operate here. Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000 at any time, and AWARE NI runs peer groups for low mood across the region.
I work rotating shifts. Will weekly counselling actually be possible?
It generally is. Times can shift with the rota rather than being fixed to one evening, and some people alternate between a morning and a late slot depending on the week. Consistency over a few months matters more than always meeting on the same day.
When would the longer kind of therapy be the better choice?
When shorter work keeps steadying things only for the same difficulty to return in the same shape. That points at patterns formed long ago, which the deeper work addresses over a much longer period. Starting here first is still the sensible order.
Getting around Craigavon is awkward; is help still within reach?
Yes. Because sessions are online by secure video, the spread-out roads and roundabouts are no barrier. You can talk from home wherever you are in the town. Bradley is based in Hove and works across Northern Ireland, so nothing depends on travelling across it.
Craigavon is spread out, so can I get counselling without travelling across it?
Yes. Sessions are online by secure video, so you talk from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow with no drive across town. After a free 15-minute consultation, most people begin within a week, whatever part of the area you live in.
How does counselling cost compare with NHS help in Craigavon?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, with 90 and 120-minute options at £100 and £120, plus a free 15-minute consultation. NHS talking therapies through your GP are free but often waited-for, while private online counselling can usually start sooner.
Do online sessions suit Craigavon's scattered communities, and are evenings available?
They do. With everything spread across the roads and roundabouts, online sessions mean you never travel to a single clinic. Evening appointments by secure video let you talk from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow, at a time that fits around work and family.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Craigavon, 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: Lisburn, Newry. See all of Northern Ireland.
Related work in Craigavon: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
You may also find it useful to read about where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Brighton — all in-person areas are listed here.