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Online Relationship Counselling · Craigavon
Online Relationship Counselling in Craigavon
Online relationship counselling 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
Relationship Counselling 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 (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 people in Craigavon reach out
Craigavon is a planned new town stitching together Lurgan and Portadown in County Armagh, and its dispersed, planned layout can make it harder to feel rooted. Insecure work, the legacy of division and the spread-out geography all shape what people here carry.
Craigavon was planned in the 1960s to join Lurgan and Portadown into a single new town, and its wide roads, roundabouts and two man-made lakes still give it that deliberate, spread-out shape. Oxford Island reaches out into Lough Neagh nearby, a nature reserve of reed beds and birdlife on the shore of the largest lake in the British Isles, while the City Park lakes and Lurgan Park offer green space between the estates. Rushmere draws shoppers to the centre that ties the two older towns together, and both Lurgan and Portadown keep their own markets, linen history and stations on the Belfast to Dublin line. It is a County Armagh place of scattered communities, motorway links and the quiet water of the lough.
In a fast-grown town where many people arrived for work or housing without family close by, online counselling offers a steady, confidential connection while you put down roots.
Craigavon is served by Craigavon Area Hospital, a major acute hospital of the Southern HSC Trust, and is home to the headquarters of pharmaceutical company Almac Group.
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 relationship counselling itself
Relationship counselling here, for couples or individuals, slows down the pattern you are caught in and builds healthier ways of hearing and being heard.
The approach is the same wherever you live, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods, what each session covers and fees, on the main relationship counselling page and on how I work.
How online sessions work
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link held to the same strict BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, you join each session from any private space using a phone, tablet or laptop, no software to install, no waiting room and no journey at either end.
Support in Craigavon does not depend on reaching a service across its spread-out layout. Sessions are held online, by secure video, throughout Northern Ireland, so the dispersed roads and roundabouts are no barrier to getting help. The counsellor is based in Hove and works UK-wide by video rather than in person, meaning you can talk from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow without a journey across town.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
How online relationship counselling in Craigavon can help
Trust and repair
Rebuilding safety after betrayal or addiction.
Distance
Finding your way back to closeness.
Long-distance couples
Sessions you can join from different places.
Anxiety and reassurance
Working with people-pleasing and the need for control.
Individual work
You do not need to come as a couple to change the dynamic.
Relationship Counselling in Craigavon
Why people in Craigavon come for relationship counselling
Craigavon's planned, spread-out shape, wide roads, roundabouts and the two lakes between Lurgan and Portadown, can leave couples feeling as scattered as the town itself, with busy lives and little shared time. Relationship counselling gives you a fixed hour to come back together and talk properly. Sessions are held online by secure video, so you can join from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow, together on one sofa or from two places if work divides your days. Bradley works from Hove, UK-wide, so nothing depends on driving across the town's dispersed layout to reach an appointment.
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, and the Samaritans are on 116 123.
Craigavon questions
Online Relationship Counselling in Craigavon: common questions
Can I get online relationship counselling if I live in Craigavon?
Yes. I work with people right across Craigavon, from Lurgan and Portadown outwards, and anywhere else in Northern Ireland, by secure video, no need to travel to Hove, and just as confidential as meeting in the room.
Can I come on my own, without my partner?
Yes. A great deal can change when one person shifts the pattern; you do not need to attend as a couple to do useful work.
Can we join the session from different locations?
Yes. Online makes it easy for couples in different places, or juggling childcare, to attend together.
Will you take sides?
No. We look at the pattern the two of you create together and where it gets stuck, not at who is to blame.
The town is so spread out; where would we go for sessions?
Nowhere at all. Sessions are online by secure video, so you and your partner can take part from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow. Bradley is based in Hove and works across Northern Ireland, so the dispersed layout makes no difference.
How soon can we start couples counselling in Craigavon?
Usually within a week. After a free 15-minute consultation, Bradley Riddell holds relationship sessions online by secure video, so you can begin from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow without a journey across Craigavon's spread-out roads.
How do relationship counselling fees compare with local NHS support?
Couples sessions are GBP80 for 60 minutes, GBP100 for 90 and GBP120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute call. Health and Social Care couples support is free but often waited-for, so private online work mainly offers a sooner, more flexible start.
Can we join from different places given how spread out Craigavon is?
Yes. Sessions are online, so you can each join from wherever you are, whether one partner is in Lurgan and the other in Portadown or working away. Evening appointments are available, so you meet from home rather than driving across the roundabouts to one place.
Craigavon is so spread out - how do I reach support?
You do not have to travel across it at all. Sessions are online by secure video, so you can take part from home in Lurgan, Portadown or Brownlow. The counsellor is based in Hove and works across Northern Ireland by video, so the dispersed layout makes no difference.
Online Relationship Counselling 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.
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Closer to the Sussex coast? The same relationship counselling is available in person in Brighton & Hove, or see all in-person areas.