Progeny Trauma Therapy and Mentoring
Trauma Therapy
For teens and adults
Our passion is to support people who have walked through difficult experiences. This may include healing from the impact of wounding such as: bullying, rejection, abandonment, ridicule, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, as well as cruelty, terror and neglect, whether encountered in early childhood, as a teen/young adult or later in life. Such difficult experiences often increase anxiety and damage self-worth (shame) leading to panic, withdrawal/isolation and corrupted internalised beliefs. Beliefs that whisper, 'I am unseen, unsafe, unworthy, and unlovable'. We help people to feel safe again, to restore their worth and find self-acceptance and freedom. We also have experience in navigating sensitive areas such as PTSD, self-harm, suicidal ideation, dissociation, pornography and all kinds of maladaptive coping responses. ​
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Session Location
We offer our face to face sessions within our private counselling room located in Ballee Pharmacy, 20 Antrim Rd, Ballymena BT42 2BJ. We also offer online sessions via zoom to those located across the UK and Ireland.
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Team
Ric Wilton
Therapy Manager
MSc
MBACP (Accred)
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Offering therapy for ages 13+ including EMDR where appropriate.
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Claire Purkess
Associate Therapist
Dip Counselling & Psychotherapy MBACP
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Offering therapy for people age 16+.
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​​Private Fees
Standard Rate - £60/Session (parent, guardian or adult is in full time employment)
Discounted Rate - £30/Session (for those on lower incomes) [subsidised by Progeny bursary]
Fully Funded - Fully subsidised places may be available, depending on the availability of funds. These fully funded slots can be subject to longer waitlists and reserved for those with the greatest need and least means to pay [subsidised by Progeny bursary]
​Agency Fees (Social Services, Community Mental Health, CAMHS etc)
£100 per 50min session / £150 per 90min session
Additional reports for agencies extra over (charged at £100/report)
Meeting attendance extra over (charged at £100/hour + expenses)
Mentoring
For teens and adults
Mentors are trained in mentoring and engage with people for up to 6 months. The aim of the Mentor is to help:
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Value to be Restored,
Identity to be Secured
and Purpose to be Explored.
Mentors are volunteers from local churches and we provide a mentoring contract to ensure clear guidelines and expectations between the mentor and mentee. Mentees under the age of 18 will require a parent or guardian to sign the mentoring contract. All of our team are Access NI checked.
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Typically mentoring takes place once or twice a month in an informal setting (e.g. a coffee shop) for a maximum of 6 months - and there is flexibility for the mentor and mentee to agree the location and duration of each session.
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Mentoring works really well alongside therapy. Mentoring is offered free of charge.
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