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Welcome to the Belfast Cognitive Therapy Centre

Belfast Cognitive Therapy Centre

Based in Strand House on the Holywood Road in east Belfast

Strand House

Reception Area

Class Facilities

Student's Kitchen

Welcome to BCTC

BCTC was established in 1996 to help develop rigorous standards of therapy and therapist training in Northern Ireland.

  • 2001 First therapist training course in N. Ireland to gain course accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
  • 2002 Sole training organisation in N. Ireland to be cited for the quality of its training in a Government Report into counselling
  • 2003 First therapist training course in N. Ireland to gain accreditation from The Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)
  • 2004 Regional award winners in the National Training Awards
  • 2005 Sequence Biotechnologies Ltd U.K. invites BCTC to open the first DNA Clinic in N. Ireland
  • 2006 BCTC now has 40 post-graduate trainees from throughout Ireland