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Online Anxiety Counselling · Solihull
Online Anxiety Counselling in Solihull
Online anxiety counselling for Solihull, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Solihull, from the town centre and Touchwood to the streets around the High Street, 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 Solihull
Anxiety Counselling for Solihull, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Solihull: from the town centre and Touchwood to Shirley, Olton and Knowle
- Known for
- The High Street, Brueton Park and the NEC nearby
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Solihull
Why people in Solihull get in touch
Solihull is a comfortable place to be anxious in, and that is not a compliment. The town reads as prosperous, from Touchwood and the town centre out to Knowle, Dorridge and Monkspath, and prosperity sets an expectation that you are managing. Meanwhile the hours are long. Birmingham Airport and the NEC sit on the doorstep at Bickenhill and Elmdon, and the Land Rover plant at Lode Lane runs to shift patterns that start before the rest of the road is awake. In 2022/23, 21.6% of adults here reported a high anxiety score, below the England average of 23.8%. A lower figure is still thousands of people, and a survey only records what somebody was willing to say.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Solihull
ShirleyOltonKnowleDorridgeBlossomfieldHillfieldElmdonBickenhillMonkspathLyndon
Wherever you are in Solihull, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Solihull
Official figures for Solihull, for context rather than as a description of you.
21.6% 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. anxiety counselling in detail explains it properly, how I work, sessions and fees answers the practical questions, and how to check my registration shows how the practice is held to account.
What do I need for 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.
Counselling for Solihull happens online by secure video. Bradley works out of Hove and keeps no space anywhere near the borough, and for anxiety that arrangement earns its keep. Early starts at the airport, an evening event at the NEC, a commute that eats both ends of the day: a video slot fits into gaps that a cross-town appointment simply could not. It also spares you a waiting area in a town where you might well recognise somebody. The first 15 minutes are free.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does anxiety counselling 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 Solihull
Why people in Solihull come for anxiety counselling
Anxiety in a place like this often arrives dressed as high standards. People get in touch when the standards stop working. The night before a meeting swallowed whole. A heart going hard in the car park at Touchwood for no reason it can name. A social invitation in Shirley or Olton turned down for the fourth time with an excuse that is wearing thin. Anxiety work here is practical and aimed squarely at solutions. We take the worry apart, look at what it claims will happen, and then test that in ordinary life instead of arguing with it in the abstract. Small experiments, tracked week to week. NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies is the free route locally and takes self-referrals, so you can start that without a GP appointment. Running both at once is entirely reasonable, and we can work out the order together.
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 Solihull
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Solihull, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull 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.
Solihull questions
Online Anxiety Counselling in Solihull: common questions
I work shifts at Birmingham Airport. Can the sessions work around a changing rota?
To a degree, yes. Most people do better with one fixed weekly time, but rotas change and we can shift the slot when a run of earlies makes the usual hour impossible. Tell me the pattern at the consultation and we will find something that survives contact with your rota.
What are the fees?
£80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min, £120 / 120 min, and a free 15-minute consultation before you commit to any of it. Anxiety work generally runs at the hour. There is no joining fee, no block booking, and nothing to pay if you decide after the consultation that it is not for you.
Can I refer myself to NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies?
Yes. It takes self-referrals, which means no GP appointment is needed to get on the list, and it costs nothing. Waiting times there vary considerably through the year. Quite a few people register there and begin privately at the same time, so something is happening while the list moves.
I do not want to be seen going into counselling in a town this small. Does online solve that?
It does. There is no building to walk into and no car park where somebody from work might spot you. You take the session wherever you are private, and the only person who knows you are having counselling is you, unless you choose to tell somebody.
Is social anxiety at work something counselling can actually shift?
It is one of the most workable things there is. We look at what you predict will happen in the meeting, the presentation or the corridor, then set up a way to find out whether the prediction holds. It rarely does, and repeated evidence is what shifts it.
My commute already eats the day, how would sessions fit?
Because everything is online, there is no journey to add and times can often be arranged for evenings or other slots around a commute into Birmingham. You meet by video from home, which saves the extra travel a face-to-face appointment would involve.
How soon can I start online anxiety counselling in Solihull?
Starting is simple. Solihull is served online from the Hove room, so there is no commute into Birmingham to add and no local list to join. A free 15-minute consultation is usually arranged first, then we agree a regular time that fits around a demanding job or travel.
What are your fees, and is this NHS or private in Solihull?
This is private counselling rather than an NHS service. Sessions cost £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation first. You can also self-refer to NHS Talking Therapies through a Solihull GP, though waiting times vary.
Do you offer in-person or evening anxiety sessions in Solihull?
In-person is not offered, as the room is in Hove and Solihull is served by video. In a comfortable town where struggling can feel awkward to admit, that privacy helps. Evening and out-of-hours slots can often be arranged around a daily commute into the city.
Online Anxiety Counselling in Solihull, 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 Midlands: Birmingham, Coventry. See all of Midlands.
Also available in Solihull: 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.
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.