Care Counselling

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East Belfast Mission’s counselling and psychotherapy service has been established for over 10 years. Our experienced counsellors and therapists work with our clients to help them explore difficult thoughts and feelings, and support them in their journey to find solutions to their difficulties.

Our approach is based on trust and respect and we work with people of all faiths and none. We are happy to work with children, young people, adults, older people and families.


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We understand that everyone during their lifetime goes through difficult times. Sometimes these difficulties can get resolved without outside help. However, if your problems have been ongoing for a long time, are affecting your ability to work or function day to day, or are impacting on your relationships with others, talking to a professional counsellor or therapist could be of benefit.

Some examples of the kinds of problems we are experienced in working with include:

 Depression and low mood (including post-natal depression)

 Bereavement and grief

 Anxiety and stress

 Panic attacks

 Relationship and interpersonal problems

 Sexual abuse issues

 Psychological trauma (including trauma relating to the Northern Ireland troubles)

 Faith and spiritual issues

 Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

 Anger management problems

 Personality issues

 Chronic pain and physical health conditions

 Phobias

 Low self-esteem

If you feel that talking to a professional would be beneficial, we at Care Counselling would love to journey with you and support you in whatever way we can. You can ask for our help by filling out a referral form and someone will be in touch by telephone within a few days to carry out an assessment of your needs, and explain what we are able to offer you at that time.

After your assessment you will be offered an appointment with a counsellor suited to your needs.

You will then agree how and when you will meet, either in person, online or by telephone. This will be at the same time, on the same day every week and each session will last for 50 minutes.

You will be offered an initial 6 sessions and you can discuss with your counsellor whether or not you feel more sessions are appropriate. Please note that additional sessions are also dependent on our waiting lists.

All our counsellors are professionally accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, or are working towards their BACP Accreditation.

What our service users say

“Having psychological therapy made me realise that bottling up my feelings was not the way to go. Working with my therapist helped me feel I was not alone, that I was not going crazy and that there were things I could do to overcome the problems I was having.”

- Amanda, Belfast

“Cognitive behavioural therapy has really helped me to get my problems into perspective. I only wish I had known sooner that therapy would have such a positive impact on my life!”

- Paul, Belfast

“Therapy really helped me to learn to cope with the distress I was feeling and for the first time in a long time I began to see a future for myself.”

- Sarah, Castlereagh

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Skainos Centre, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1AF.

Your counsellor will decide on this after meeting with you. Please note availability of further sessions is also dependent on waiting list times.

Depression, anxiety, grief, stress and abuse are some of the problems that may have an impact on day-to-day functioning, relationships and work and may benefit from counselling. Each person’s situation is unique so if you are not sure that counselling would be right for you, using the self-referral form is a means to discuss this with a therapist.

What modality we use depends on what is best according to your need. The therapies include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

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Volunteering with us

Care Counselling occasionally offers clinical placements to counsellors in training.

To register your interest please send a C.V. to our Counselling Co-Ordinator.

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