Geraldine McCabe

I offer face-to-face, online and telephone sessions. 

My working hours are Monday to Friday, 12pm–8pm, and Saturdays, 10am–4pm. 

Face-to-face sessions in Armagh take place at 

Lurgyvallen Business Park, 72 Cathedral Road, Armagh BT61 8AG. 

If you need a session outside these hours, please contact me and I'll be happy to try to accommodate you.

Sometimes life becomes too much to carry alone. It might be a loss, something that happened long ago, or anxiety that won't settle. Talking to someone outside your everyday life can help you make sense of it and find a way forward, at your own pace.

I'm an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist (MBACP (Accred), MIACP), qualified since 2008 and accredited since 2011. Much of my career has been spent alongside people at the hardest points in their lives: supporting families after sudden and traumatic loss, counselling with a crisis support charity, working in schools, and working in residential care and community support for young people and vulnerable adults. I was also a foster carer for more than 16 years, and I bring my own lived experience of the Magdalene system to my work.

My approach is humanistic integrative, drawing on person-centred, solution-focused and other approaches. I offer a warm, non-judgemental space where you can be honest. I'm calm and supportive, and direct when it helps, and I'll share practical tools you can keep using long after our sessions end. I work within the BACP Ethical Framework and receive regular clinical supervision.

I work with adults, students, and young people aged 10 and over and their parents. The areas I work with most often are:

• Anxiety, stress and low mood

• Trauma

• Grief and bereavement, including bereavement by suicide

• Children and young people (10+), including support for worried parents

• Suicidal thoughts and self-harm. I'm trained in ASIST and the Self Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP)

• Adoption, institutional trauma and Magdalene survivors

I also work with abuse (including clerical abuse), foster, kinship and adoptive families, people in or leaving care, family tracing, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, work-related stress, anger, addiction, OCD and phobias, neurodivergence, disability, children with special needs, conflict management, infertility and pregnancy-related issues, menopause, ageing, gender identity, and isolation and health anxiety.

In 2026 I completed a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People. I'm recognised by Allianz, Aviva, AXA, Bupa, VHI, Vitality and WPA.

Your first session is a chance to talk about what has brought you to counselling and what you'd like from it. I'll explain how confidentiality works, we'll agree how we'll work together, and you can ask any questions. There's no pressure to share more than you're ready to. It's also a chance for you to decide whether I'm the right counsellor for you.

Sessions are 50 minutes, at £70 per session. Some people want a few focused sessions; others prefer longer-term work. Both are welcome.

I offer face-to-face, online and telephone sessions. 

My working hours are Monday to Friday, 12pm–8pm, and Saturdays, 10am–4pm. 

Face-to-face sessions are available in Newry by appointment. 

If you need a session outside these hours, please contact me and I'll be happy to try to accommodate you.

Sometimes life becomes too much to carry alone. It might be a loss, something that happened long ago, or anxiety that won't settle. Talking to someone outside your everyday life can help you make sense of it and find a way forward, at your own pace.

I'm an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist (MBACP (Accred), MIACP), qualified since 2008 and accredited since 2011. Much of my career has been spent alongside people at the hardest points in their lives: supporting families after sudden and traumatic loss, counselling with a crisis support charity, working in schools, and working in residential care and community support for young people and vulnerable adults. I was also a foster carer for more than 16 years, and I bring my own lived experience of the Magdalene system to my work.

My approach is humanistic integrative, drawing on person-centred, solution-focused and other approaches. I offer a warm, non-judgemental space where you can be honest. I'm calm and supportive, and direct when it helps, and I'll share practical tools you can keep using long after our sessions end. I work within the BACP Ethical Framework and receive regular clinical supervision.

I work with adults, students, and young people aged 10 and over and their parents. The areas I work with most often are:

• Anxiety, stress and low mood

• Trauma

• Grief and bereavement, including bereavement by suicide

• Children and young people (10+), including support for worried parents

• Suicidal thoughts and self-harm. I'm trained in ASIST and the Self Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP)

• Adoption, institutional trauma and Magdalene survivors

I also work with abuse (including clerical abuse), foster, kinship and adoptive families, people in or leaving care, family tracing, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, work-related stress, anger, addiction, OCD and phobias, neurodivergence, disability, children with special needs, conflict management, infertility and pregnancy-related issues, menopause, ageing, gender identity, and isolation and health anxiety.

In 2026 I completed a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People. I'm recognised by Allianz, Aviva, AXA, Bupa, VHI, Vitality and WPA.

Your first session is a chance to talk about what has brought you to counselling and what you'd like from it. I'll explain how confidentiality works, we'll agree how we'll work together, and you can ask any questions. There's no pressure to share more than you're ready to. It's also a chance for you to decide whether I'm the right counsellor for you.

Sessions are 50 minutes, at £70 per session. Some people want a few focused sessions; others prefer longer-term work. Both are welcome.