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Online Trauma Counselling · Belfast
Online Trauma Counselling in Belfast
Online trauma counselling for Belfast, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Belfast, from the city centre and the Cathedral Quarter to the streets around the City Hall, 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 Belfast
Trauma Counselling for Belfast, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Belfast: from the city centre and the Cathedral Quarter to the Falls, the Shankill, east Belfast and the south of the city
- Known for
- The City Hall, the Titanic Quarter and the shipyard cranes
- 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 Belfast
What brings people in Belfast to counselling?
Belfast lives closely with its own past. The city has changed enormously, and yet the legacy of the conflict here runs through families in ways that are rarely spoken about at the kitchen table: a grandparent who never explained, a parent who stayed watchful, a street where something happened that is still known without being described. Alongside that sits every other kind of trauma a city produces, from assaults and accidents to childhoods nobody protected. Deprivation in parts of the city has made recovery harder and help less accessible. People manage by carrying on, and carrying on works for a long time, until sleep, temper or a sudden reaction makes it clear something is still unfinished.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Belfast
Cathedral QuarterTitanic QuarterFallsShankilleast BelfastBotanicStranmillisOrmeauBallyhackamoreAndersonstownMaloneSydenham
Wherever you are in Belfast, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Belfast
Official figures for Belfast, for context rather than as a description of you.
In the Belfast council area, 8.6% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well above the Northern Ireland average of 5.2%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What does trauma counselling involve?
Trauma counselling here is gentle and led by you, drawing on methods designed for trauma including the Human Givens Rewind Technique, so a difficult memory is returned to ordinary recall.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the trauma counselling page for the methods, how I work, sessions and fees for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
How do online sessions actually work?
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.
Trauma sessions run by secure video, with Bradley in Hove and no premises in the city at all. In Belfast that anonymity carries real weight. Nobody sees which building you walk into, and nobody in your area needs to know anything. You stay in your own home, and when the hour finishes you are already there rather than travelling while raw. The pace belongs to you throughout, and stopping a session early is always a legitimate choice.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
Hypervigilance
Help when your nervous system is stuck on high alert.
Numbness and avoidance
For when you cope by shutting down.
Trauma behind addiction
Healing the wound that drives the habit.
Sub-threshold trauma
Reaching the quieter, accumulated hurts.
Feeling safe again
Working always at a pace that is led by you.
Trauma Counselling in Belfast
Why people in Belfast come for trauma counselling
People often come long after the event, sometimes decades after, and usually because the present has started to be affected. Sleep that will not settle. A jolt at a noise that nobody else notices. Numbness with the people closest to you. Some of what is carried here happened to the person in the chair, and some was absorbed from a family that lived through more than it ever put into words. The work is client-led and paced carefully. It does not need the event described. The Human Givens Rewind Technique allows a memory to be processed without you narrating it out loud, which matters especially where speaking about the past has never felt safe or straightforward. The early sessions are about steadiness rather than history. Your GP can refer you for talking therapies through Health and Social Care, Inspire Wellbeing offers support across Northern Ireland, and Lifeline answers 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 callFinding support in Belfast
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Belfast, 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.
Belfast questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Belfast: common questions
Do I have to talk about what happened here during the conflict?
Only if you want to. The work follows what matters to you, with no interest in politics and no expectation that you explain a background or take any position. Many people describe very little and still get somewhere, because the method does not depend on the account.
What does trauma counselling cost?
Charges are £80 for the hour, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours. Longer sessions can suit this work because there is time to arrive and time to settle again before you finish. The first 15-minute conversation is free and involves no commitment.
Where else can I turn in Northern Ireland?
Your GP is the route into talking therapies through Health and Social Care and can point to what is available in the city. Lifeline is free at any hour on 0808 808 8000. Inspire Wellbeing provides mental health and wellbeing support you can contact yourself.
Is anonymity really possible in a city like this?
It is far easier online than in person. There is no reception, no shared waiting area and no chance of meeting someone you know on the stairs. Records are kept confidentially and what is said in a session stays there, within the usual professional and legal limits.
My father went through things he never spoke about. Could that be affecting me?
It can, and this is well recognised in Northern Ireland. Children raised around vigilance, silence or unexplained grief often carry the shape of it without the story. We would work with what you actually live with now, rather than trying to reconstruct his history.
Is it safe to talk about difficult experiences over video?
Many people find the privacy of their own home makes hard conversations feel safer, not harder. Sessions are held over secure video, and the pace is always yours. Bradley is Hove-based and works with people across Belfast and Northern Ireland online.
How soon can I start trauma counselling online in Belfast?
After a free 15-minute consultation, usually within a week or two. Trauma work is paced carefully, so early sessions online by secure video focus on safety and steadiness before anything else. You can take part from anywhere in Belfast without setting foot in a clinic.
How do your trauma counselling fees compare with NHS help in Belfast?
NHS trauma services in Belfast are free but often have waiting lists, and the city's complicated past can make timing matter. Bradley charges £80 for 60 minutes, 100 for 90 and 120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation, so support need not wait.
Is online trauma counselling suitable for people across Belfast?
For many, yes. Working online by secure video lets you stay in a familiar, private space, which can feel safer for trauma than an unfamiliar room. Bradley is Hove-based and UK-wide, offering some evening slots for Belfast clients who prefer to talk after work.
Online Trauma Counselling in Belfast, 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, Newtownabbey, Bangor. See all of Northern Ireland.
Close to this in Belfast, there is anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy.
Within reach of Sussex? trauma counselling is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.