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Online Anxiety Counselling · Cardiff
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cardiff
Online anxiety counselling for Cardiff, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Cardiff, from the bay and the centre to the streets around the castle, 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 Cardiff
Anxiety Counselling for Cardiff, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Cardiff: from the bay and the centre to Cathays, Roath, Canton and Grangetown
- Known for
- The castle, the bay and the Principality Stadium
- Region
- Wales
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Wales)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Cardiff
What brings people in Cardiff to counselling?
A capital runs at a pace that is easy to mistake for normal. Cardiff holds the Senedd and Welsh Government at Cardiff Bay, BBC Cymru Wales at Central Square, Cardiff University and its student quarter, and a great many people all moving at once. Anxiety finds plenty to work with in that. There are days when the Principality Stadium fills and the centre turns into one solid crowd, and if crowds are your difficulty the whole week bends around avoiding them. There is an open-plan desk where you are convinced that everyone can hear your voice shaking. And in Cathays, Riverside or Grangetown there are rooms where somebody sits with a laptop open, doing the work perfectly well, certain they are the only one struggling.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Cardiff
CathaysRoathCantonGrangetownSplottAdamsdownButetownLlandaffWhitchurchCyncoedRiversidePontcanna
Wherever you are in Cardiff, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Cardiff
Official figures for Cardiff, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Cardiff the average anxiety rating was 3.55 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3 (a higher score indicates more anxiety). Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Cardiff, 8.5% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Wales average of 6.9%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is anxiety counselling, in practice?
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.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the full anxiety counselling page for the methods, how I work, sessions and fees for fees and session lengths, and qualifications, registration and ethics if you want to check who you would be working with.
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.
Bradley works from Hove, so anything for Cardiff is online by secure video. That removes the part many anxious people dread most, which is the getting there: the bus, the parking, the reception desk, the wait. You are in your own room with the door shut instead. It also means an hour can sit inside a working day without a journey at either end, and in a shared house headphones keep the conversation yours.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can anxiety counselling in Cardiff help with?
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 Cardiff
Why people in Cardiff come for anxiety counselling
The reasons for coming are usually very ordinary ones. Panic that arrives without warning in a queue or on a train. Worry that runs all night and lets go about ten minutes before the alarm. A social dread that has slowly narrowed what you are willing to agree to. The average anxiety rating in Cardiff was 3.55 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3, though no figure ever describes a particular Tuesday. The approach is solution-focused. We work out what your body is responding to and why that response makes sense, because anxiety is not irrational so much as badly calibrated. Then we practise bringing the level down on purpose, in real situations rather than only in the session, and the avoidance is unpicked slowly and by agreement. For NHS support your GP can refer you to the local primary mental health support service, and Cardiff Mind runs in the city alongside that.
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 Cardiff
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Cardiff, you can access NHS psychological therapies through your GP or local primary mental health support service. You can find support through the CALL Mental Health Helpline for Wales, free and confidential on 0800 132 737.
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 press 2 for urgent mental health support. The CALL Helpline for Wales is free on 0800 132 737, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Cardiff questions
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cardiff: common questions
How long would I be waiting to start?
Not long. A free 15-minute call comes first so you can describe what is happening and ask whatever you want to ask, and weekly sessions usually begin a week or two later. There is no referral to chase and nothing to be assessed for beforehand.
What does it cost in Cardiff?
The same as everywhere, since it is all online: £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours. Anxiety work usually fits the hour. The 15-minute consultation at the start is free and carries no expectation that you will book anything.
What is the NHS route if I want to try that too?
Your GP is the way in. From there you can be referred to the local primary mental health support service, and how long that takes varies. Nothing stops you doing both, and the CALL Mental Health Helpline for Wales is free on 0800 132 737 while you wait.
Can this really be done over video rather than in a room?
For anxiety it often works better. You are practising calming yourself in the places where the anxiety actually happens, not in a quiet consulting room you visit once a week. The conversation is the same; only the travelling has been taken out of it.
Crowds in the centre on a big match day set me off. Can that change?
Yes, and that is a good example of what the work targets. We look at what your body has learned to read as danger in a packed street, build ways to bring the reaction down, then rebuild the situation in stages rather than asking you to endure it and hope.
Does living in a busy city like Cardiff make anxiety worse?
A fast, crowded city can certainly keep anxiety simmering, but the roots are usually personal rather than postal. Working together by secure video, we look at what drives your worry and build practical ways to steady it, wherever in Cardiff you happen to be.
How quickly can I start anxiety counselling online in Cardiff?
Usually within a week. After a free 15-minute consultation we can book your first full session, often at short notice. I work from Hove by secure video, so wherever you are in Cardiff, from Cathays to Grangetown, there is no waiting room and no travel across the city.
How do your anxiety counselling fees compare with NHS options in Cardiff?
NHS Wales support through Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is free but often carries a wait. My private sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation first, so you can begin sooner without a referral.
Do you offer evening online anxiety sessions for people in Cardiff?
Yes. Some evening slots are available by secure video, which suits people working near Cardiff Bay or studying around Cathays. You join from a private room at home, so an anxious day need not mean a journey into town after work. We agree a regular time that fits your week.
Online Anxiety Counselling in Cardiff, 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 Wales: Newport, Barry, Pontypridd. See all of Wales.
Also available in Cardiff: depression counselling, trauma counselling and counselling and therapy.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about settling a spike of urgency and the miracle question.
For anyone near the coast, the same anxiety counselling runs in person in Hove, where the room is. Every area covered is listed separately.