Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Craigavon
Online Psychotherapy in Craigavon
Online psychotherapy 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
Psychotherapy 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?
People who grew up in the new town estates often describe an odd sort of rootlessness, a childhood spent somewhere designed on a plan by people who did not live there. Add families that kept firmly to one side of a divided place, and you get houses where a lot went unspoken and children learned to read a room before they entered it. Those adaptations were sensible at the time. They carry on afterwards as difficulty trusting, as a habit of expecting rejection, as a private conviction of being not quite wanted. Adults from Bleary to Tullygally reach this work when a short course of counselling has helped and then worn through.
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, 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, 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, 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 psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy here goes a little deeper and usually a little longer than counselling, into the patterns, beliefs and early relationships that shape how you feel now, so change is understood at the root and holds.
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 psychotherapy in detail, alongside how I work and qualifications, registration and ethics.
How does meeting by video work in practice?
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.
This is the long form of the work and it needs a dependable weekly hour. Everything runs by secure video with Bradley in Hove, so the same time is protected whatever the roads or the rota are doing, at £80 / 60 min or £100 / 90 min where more space helps. A free 15-minute conversation precedes any decision. Work measured in seasons survives on consistency, and removing the journey is the single easiest way to protect it.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does psychotherapy address?
Attachment and relationships
How early bonds still shape the way you connect now.
Identity and self-worth
Working with a harsh inner voice and a shaky sense of self.
The past in the present
When something unresolved keeps replaying beneath the surface.
Beyond symptom relief
Understanding the root, not just quieting the symptom.
Lasting change
Insight that holds, so change does not slip back.
Psychotherapy in Craigavon
Why people in Craigavon come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is chosen when the same difficulty keeps reassembling itself. A different job, a different partner, a different town, and within a year you are somehow back in the same position. The work goes below the symptom into attachment, early relationships, identity and self-worth, asking what you learned about closeness before you were old enough to question it. Where a family here grew up alongside division and coped by not discussing it, that learning often includes a deep caution about letting anyone all the way in. None of this is approached politically, and no view is taken about anybody's community. It is unhurried and open-ended, normally more than a year. Your GP can still refer you to talking therapies through Health and Social Care, and Lifeline stays free on 0808 808 8000 whenever it is needed.
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 Psychotherapy in Craigavon: common questions
Why would this succeed where short-term counselling only helped for a while?
Because it aims at a different level. Brief work manages the present; this looks at what keeps generating the present, in early relationships and long-held beliefs about yourself. It is slower and more demanding, and it is normally chosen after briefer work has been tried.
How long will it run, and what is the cost?
Open-ended work usually means a year at minimum, reviewed together as you go. Fees are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, charged one appointment at a time. The opening 15-minute consultation at the start is free, and it is a reasonable place to ask whether depth is really what you want.
Can Health and Social Care offer therapy of this length?
Your GP can refer you for talking therapies through Health and Social Care, though what is commissioned is usually shorter and waits differ across the region. Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000 in a crisis, and Inspire Wellbeing offers support that can run alongside longer private work.
My family never talked about the past. Does that belong in therapy?
It often does, where the silence shaped how a household handled fear. The interest is not political and takes nobody's side. It is in what a child concluded about safety and closeness from that silence, and how those conclusions still run your relationships now.
Does open-ended mean I am committing to years of this?
No. It means no arbitrary end date is imposed at the start. You review the work with me as it goes and stop when it has done what you needed. Many people find a year or more useful, but the decision to continue is always yours.
How is psychotherapy different from shorter-term counselling?
Shorter-term counselling tends to focus on present concerns; psychotherapy works more slowly, exploring the deeper roots beneath them over time. From home in Craigavon you can do this by secure video, whatever part of the town you live in. Bradley is based in Hove and works UK-wide.
How do I begin deeper psychotherapy while living in Craigavon?
You start with a free 15-minute consultation, then your first full session, usually within a week or two. Psychotherapy is longer-term work held online by secure video, so regular sessions fit from home rather than a repeated drive across Craigavon's spread-out layout.
Is private psychotherapy worth it when Craigavon has NHS services?
NHS psychological therapy is free but tends to be shorter and waited-for. Private psychotherapy, at £80 an hour or £100 to £120 for longer sessions, gives open-ended, consistent work with one counsellor, which deeper difficulties often need. A free 15-minute call helps you decide.
Does long-term psychotherapy work online from Craigavon?
Yes. Weekly video sessions build the same lasting relationship as in-person work, with no journey across town. From a private room in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow, with evening slots available, ongoing therapy can keep a steady rhythm around work and family life.
Online Psychotherapy 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.
If psychotherapy is not quite what you are looking for, counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling may fit better in Craigavon.
There is more on this in my writing: dislocation and the modern world.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Brighton — all in-person areas are listed here.