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Online Anxiety Counselling · Cambridge
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cambridge
Online anxiety counselling for Cambridge, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Cambridge, from the colleges and the centre to the streets around the Backs, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you
In and around Cambridge
Anxiety Counselling for Cambridge, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Cambridge: from the colleges and the centre to Mill Road, Cherry Hinton and Chesterton
- Known for
- The colleges, the Backs and the river Cam
- Region
- East of England (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Cambridge
What is going on for people in Cambridge?
Cambridge concentrates high achievement to an unusual degree, and one ordinary cost of that is a low, permanent dread of being found out. Students, researchers, clinicians at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and people working across the science and technology sector of Silicon Fen all describe versions of the same thing. The self-reported figures look mild: 20% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8%. That gap may say as much about who is willing to record it as about who feels it. Rents outrunning almost any salary, and terms that stop abruptly, add friction whether you live off Mill Road, in Romsey, or out towards Cherry Hinton.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Cambridge
Mill RoadCherry HintonChestertonTrumpingtonNewnhamRomseyArburyPetersfieldKings HedgesColeridge
Wherever you are in Cambridge, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Cambridge
Official figures for Cambridge, for context rather than as a description of you.
20% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
Reviewed June 2026.
What does anxiety counselling involve?
Anxiety counselling here is practical and solution-focused: we work on the worry, panic, social anxiety and over-thinking that are actually affecting your day, and on simple ways to settle a nervous system stuck on high alert.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the main anxiety counselling page explains it properly, how I work answers the practical questions, and how to check my registration shows how the practice is held to account.
How does meeting by video work in practice?
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link, held to the same BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call, you join from any private space on a phone, tablet or laptop.
Sessions run online by secure video, from Hove. In a small city where academic and professional circles overlap heavily, that distance is frequently the point: nobody watches you go into a building, and your supervisor's colleague is not sitting in the waiting area. Appointments fit around lab hours, clinical shifts or a teaching timetable, and they survive a change of college, a conference, or a term spent working somewhere else entirely. You need a private hour and a set of headphones.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does anxiety counselling address?
Social anxiety
Help with confidence, self-consciousness and fear of judgement.
Chronic worry
Support for overthinking, catastrophising and decision paralysis.
People-pleasing
Working with the need for control and approval.
Sleep and tension
Calming a nervous system stuck on high alert.
Responding differently
Tools for when anxiety starts to take hold.
Anxiety Counselling in Cambridge
Why people in Cambridge come for anxiety counselling
People here often arrive already fluent in the vocabulary and no better off for it. Anxiety counselling is deliberately practical: less analysis of why, far more attention to the mechanics of what happens and what could be done differently. We take one recent episode apart in sequence, so the trigger, the thought, the physical surge and the avoidance that follows stop being a single undifferentiated wave. Bringing the body down comes before anything cognitive, because a nervous system in alarm cannot weigh evidence properly. From there we design small, testable steps, and you judge whether the results justify the belief. NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Talking Therapies takes self-referrals in England with no GP letter, which is worth setting in motion in parallel, and CPSL Mind covers Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and South Lincolnshire with support that costs nothing.
A free, unhurried first step
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callFinding support in Cambridge
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Cambridge, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Talking Therapies for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
Private sessions with me usually mean you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout; I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
If you need urgent help now
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.
Cambridge questions
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cambridge: common questions
Everyone around me seems to cope and I do not. Is that simply imposter feeling?
It is a familiar shape in a city like this, and naming it that way rarely changes much. Most of the people around you are managing more privately than they appear to be. What we work on is not whether you belong, but the specific loop that occupies your evenings with the question.
Only 20% of adults here reported high anxiety. Why does it feel far more common than that?
Because the measure is a self-report from 2022/23, sitting below the England average of 23.8%, and self-reports depend on people being prepared to say so. In a place built on demonstrated competence, admitting to a bad month is not a neutral act to perform.
What is the NHS route here, and does it still apply if I am a student?
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Talking Therapies is the service covering this area, and self-referral in England needs no GP letter. Registering with a local practice still helps for anything beyond that. Private sessions alongside are common, particularly where a term is short and the wait is not.
What do you charge, and do the longer sessions cost more?
Yes, in proportion. Sixty minutes costs £80, ninety minutes £100 and two hours £120. Anxiety work seldom needs the longer formats, since brief regular practice achieves more than an extended conversation does. Everything begins with a free 15-minute consultation, which carries no expectation of booking.
My anxiety is entirely about deadlines and vivas. Is that too narrow a thing to bring?
Not at all, and a narrow focus usually makes the work quicker rather than shallower. Performance anxiety has a very clear mechanism: anticipation, a physical surge, attention narrowing, then either avoidance or frantic over-preparation. Each part responds to something different, so we take them in order.
Can online counselling help with performance anxiety in Cambridge?
Yes. Whether the pressure comes from deadlines, supervisions or a demanding role in the science parks, we can look at what feeds the anxiety and find steadier ground. Working by video from Hove means you talk it through privately, without being seen walking into somewhere in town.
How soon can I start online anxiety counselling in Cambridge?
Fairly quickly. I am based in Hove and work with Cambridge clients online, so there is no clinic waiting list to join. We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, then agree a first session that fits around lab hours, teaching terms or a commute from Chesterton or Mill Road.
What does anxiety counselling cost in Cambridge, and is it cheaper on the NHS?
NHS Talking Therapies are free through your GP or self-referral, though waits vary and choice of therapist is limited. My private sessions are self-funded: £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90, or £120 for 120, with a free 15-minute consultation first.
Can I have evening online anxiety sessions rather than travelling across Cambridge?
Yes. Everything is online by secure video or phone, so nothing means crossing the city or the Mill Road cycle traffic. Evening slots are available around study and shift work, and you can talk from your own room in Newnham, Romsey or a quiet office between meetings.
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cambridge, whenever you are ready
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available online across East of England: Peterborough, Norwich. See all of East of England.
Also available in Cambridge: depression counselling, trauma counselling and counselling and therapy.
There is more on this in my writing: the miracle question and settling a spike of urgency.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same anxiety counselling is available in person, in Hove, where the room is, or see every area I cover.