About us
Emerge is a professional counselling service provided by New Life Counselling. A range of counselling approaches and therapies are available delivered by fully qualified counsellors and therapists including Person Centred Counselling, Integrative Counselling, Child and Adolescent Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Family Therapy, Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Drama and Movement Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing Therapy. We offer service to children from age 4+, teenagers and adults of all ages. All counsellors and therapists are accredited with the relevant professional body.
We offer services in East Belfast (Skainos Centre) and North Belfast (Ardoyne Road and Duncairn Gardens).
Training, qualifications & experience
Emerge Counsellors and Therapists have in excess of 200 hours post qualifying clinical experience prior to their appointment to this service. All staff have an Enhanced Disclosure Check through Access NI conducted prior to appointment and following appointment they undergo Child Protection Training in accordance with New Life Counselling's Child Protection Policy.
Our counselling and therapy staff team consist of play therapists, CBT, psychodramatic and many other disciplines, to ensure we maintain a client centred approach.
The organisation itself is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
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Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Areas of counselling we deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Costs per session start at £40, please phone 9039 1630 for more details