About Us

A Safe Space to be Me was born in March 2016 and very quickly grew from a very small grass roots community group based in Antrim to one that now has 2 main bases and 5 satellite offices across the Northern Trust locality. Safe Space came about when our Senior Director moved to Crumlin with her family and very quickly realised that Crumlin was lacking in service provision within the community across the board. 
After a lot of hard work behind the scenes, sleepless nights and very long hours, the vision has become reality and in August 2019 we acquired the premises for our Crumlin Community Hub. Our vision is one of inclusivity and togetherness to break down barriers that keep different sections of the community apart, lonely and isolated. We want to promote emotional well-being, engagement of services and family support through a variety of means within the community of Crumlin in a space that is neutral and accessible to all.

As a grass roots community organisation whose main focus is around mental health and emotional wellbeing, we believe that the work we do benefits individuals of all ages, with a view to developing life skills and resilience and also encourage the individuals to connect and become part of the larger community.

A community in which everyone matters.

A big part of the work we do in the community is providing counselling. To date, we have provided nearly 13,000 counselling sessions to over 1000 clients which is a phenomenal amount having a huge positive impact on the mental health of people in our communities. To allow us to do this we not only provide trainee placements for students in Ulster University but deliver our own counsellor training, ensuring the quality of future counsellors., with all of our training programmes being quality checked by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. 

We are a placement provider for Ulster University Students for several courses and we like to ensure that all our students have the opportunity to engage and learn in an environment that is both educational, supportive and community led. 

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Our hope is to continue to grow as our community grows,  adapting and meeting identified needs by introduce some potentially life changing projects within Crumlin that also serve the borough and beyond.  In tackle mental health issues head on and putting in the work., we want to ensure to ensure that every service user has the resilience to cope with anything in life.

Feel free to drop in, have a chat, have a cup of tea, talk about the weather, talk about how your feeling...
You matter,
I matter,
We all matter.