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Online Anxiety Counselling · Gateshead
Online Anxiety Counselling in Gateshead
Online anxiety counselling for Gateshead, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Gateshead, from the Quays and the centre to the streets around the Angel of the North, 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 Gateshead
Anxiety Counselling for Gateshead, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Gateshead: from the Quays and the centre to Low Fell, Felling and Dunston
- Known for
- The Angel of the North, the Sage and the Millennium Bridge
- Region
- Yorkshire & North East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Talking Therapies (find via the NHS finder)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Gateshead
What brings people in Gateshead to counselling?
Gateshead holds two things at once. Along the Tyne there is the Baltic, The Glasshouse and a regenerated quayside; a mile inland there are streets in Bensham, Felling and Wrekenton where the industry went and never came back. Living between those two pictures does something to people, and 24.9% of adults here reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. The anxiety is usually attached to something specific: hours at the MetroCentre or on Team Valley that shift week to week, a health worry that will not let go, a benefits letter that stays unopened on a windowsill for three days because opening it makes it real.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Gateshead
Low FellFellingDunstonBenshamSaltwellWhickhamBlaydonBirtleyWrekentonWinlaton
Wherever you are in Gateshead, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Gateshead
Official figures for Gateshead, for context rather than as a description of you.
24.9% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
Reviewed June 2026.
What would we do together in anxiety counselling?
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.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: the main anxiety counselling page sets out the methods, how I work, sessions and fees covers the practicalities, and my BACP registration covers accountability.
What happens in an online session?
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, because Bradley is in Hove and there is no premises on this side of the country. For anxiety that removes a genuine obstacle rather than just being convenient. Nothing to walk into, nobody to pass in a corridor, no bus home while your chest is still tight. You can take the hour from your own kitchen in Dunston or Whickham, or from a car on a break, and we keep it at the same time weekly.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
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 Gateshead
Why people in Gateshead come for anxiety counselling
What people bring is rarely abstract worry. It is panic that started once and now decides which shops you will enter. It is health anxiety after something frightening at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead, yours or a relative's. It is the dread that arrives on a Sunday evening about a job that is not secure. The work is deliberately practical: understand what your body is doing and why it is not dangerous, identify what keeps the anxiety supplied, notice the small avoidances that trade a moment of relief for a worse next time, then build responses you can use in the middle of it. Gateshead has no separately branded NHS talking-therapies team, so the national NHS Talking Therapies finder is the self-referral route in England. Tyneside and Northumberland Mind covers this area for local support.
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 Gateshead
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Gateshead, you can refer yourself directly to NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression, with no GP referral needed. You can find support through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
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.
Gateshead questions
Online Anxiety Counselling in Gateshead: common questions
How do I get NHS anxiety help in Gateshead without seeing a GP first?
Use the national NHS Talking Therapies finder and refer yourself. Self-referral works everywhere in England and Gateshead has no separately branded local team of its own. Tyneside and Northumberland Mind covers this area too and is worth knowing about while you wait.
My hours change every week. Can the appointment move with them?
Yes. Retail and warehouse rotas around Team Valley and the MetroCentre make a fixed weekly hour unrealistic for a lot of people, so we plan a few weeks ahead and shift the slot as the rota lands. A moving appointment you keep beats a fixed one you miss.
What do you charge, and is there a free first conversation?
There is a free 15-minute consultation before anything is agreed. Sessions are then £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min or £120 / 120 min, paid one at a time with no block booking. Anxiety work most often uses the 60-minute session, weekly to start with.
I get panic attacks on the bus. Would that be somewhere we work on directly?
It would, and journeys are a good example of how this goes. We build understanding of what your body is doing first, then practise specific responses, then approach the journey itself in steps you choose. Nothing gets sprung on you and nothing happens before you are ready.
Is video counselling any good, or is it a lesser version of the real thing?
For anxiety it is not a lesser version. Rehearsing new responses in the places where the anxiety actually shows up transfers better than rehearsing them in an unfamiliar consulting space. What you need is a private hour, headphones and a connection that does not drop.
People round here don't really talk about this, will it feel strange?
It might at first, and that's completely normal. Counselling is simply a confidential conversation with someone outside your world. Meeting online, from your own space, can make that first step easier, no waiting room, and no chance of being seen going in.
How soon can I start anxiety counselling online in Gateshead?
Usually within a week. We start with a free 15-minute consultation, then a first session by secure video. I'm based in Hove and work online across Gateshead, so there's no waiting list and no need to cross the Tyne or travel from Low Fell to an appointment.
What do you charge, and how does it compare with the NHS in Gateshead?
Fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS talking therapies in Gateshead are free but can mean a wait; online and private, you can usually start sooner and keep a steady weekly time.
Can we meet online in the evening rather than in person in Gateshead?
Yes. I work from Hove by secure video, not a room in Gateshead, so there's no crossing the Tyne from Dunston or Felling. Evening or off-peak slots are often possible, which suits anxiety that builds around work, shifts or family life.
Online Anxiety Counselling in Gateshead, 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 Yorkshire & North East: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Durham. See all of Yorkshire & North East.
Close to this in Gateshead, there is depression counselling, trauma counselling and counselling and therapy.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: the miracle question and settling a spike of urgency.
For anyone near the coast, the same anxiety counselling runs in person in Hove, where the room is. Every area covered is listed separately.