Age Range
Primary school children and young people
Description
About the Practice
When a child’s distress is showing in school and home, creative therapy can help adults hear more than the behaviour. Action Mental Health New Life Counselling Belfast supports Belfast families with play-based and counselling-style emotional wellbeing support for children who need more than another conversation at the kitchen table. The focus is safer expression, stronger connection and practical understanding for the adults around the child.
Clinical Expertise
Counselling, creative therapy, play therapy, words, art, music, play and drama
Emotional distress, looked-after children needs, family stress, anxiety, trauma and school concerns
Play and creative routes can support SEND children who communicate through action, movement, art or story before words
Why Work With Us?
Belfast Creative Therapy Service: Parents can see the therapist role, membership route and safeguarding position before trusting someone with their child’s inner world.
School and Community Routes: Play, creative work and counselling-style support help children communicate through action, story, art, movement and relationship when direct questions only make them close down.
Parent and School Connection: Children can use play, art, music and drama to make sense of pressure while the adults around them build a clearer support plan.
Category
Location
Online / In-person
North, West and East Belfast premises and school routes
Typical Wait Time
Ask provider
Fees / Price Range
Funding and referral routes vary
Assessment Tools / Approach
Counselling, creative therapy, play therapy, words, art, music, play and drama
Self-referral Accepted
Most private therapy routes accept parent enquiries; check consent, referral and safeguarding process for the child’s age
Written Report Included
Ask service about review notes or professional communication
Post-diagnosis Support
Play and creative routes can support SEND children who communicate through action, movement, art or story before words
Daily Living Skills
Emotional expression, regulation, parent-child communication, confidence and school participation support by therapy scope
School Support
Works from Belfast premises and schools across Northern Ireland
Home / School Visits
North, West and East Belfast premises and school routes