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Online Anxiety Counselling · Swansea
Online Anxiety Counselling in Swansea
Online anxiety counselling for Swansea, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Swansea, from the centre and the marina to the streets around the bay, 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 Swansea
Anxiety Counselling for Swansea, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Swansea: from the centre and the marina to Uplands, Sketty and Morriston
- Known for
- The bay, the marina and the Gower beyond
- 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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea get in touch
Swansea can look like the answer to stress from the outside. The bay, the Gower peninsula half an hour away, the marina and the maritime quarter. Living here is a different matter. There are two university campuses at Singleton and on the seafront, large employers such as the DVLA and Morriston Hospital running around the clock, and a great many people working hours that never quite line up with anybody else's. Anxiety thrives in that. A body kept alert by rotating shifts stops knowing when it is allowed to rest. In Brynmill, Uplands or Sketty there are houses full of people who appear entirely fine and are checking their pulse at midnight.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Swansea
UplandsSkettyMorristonMumblesBrynmillTownhillSt ThomasLandoreGorseinonClydachKillayBonymaen
Wherever you are in Swansea, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Swansea
Official figures for Swansea, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Swansea the average anxiety rating was 3.46 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 Swansea, 5.5% 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 actually happens 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.
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How do online sessions actually work?
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 all Swansea counselling happens online by secure video. That fits this city particularly well. Sessions can be arranged around shifts, around teaching timetables, or around a week where no two days look alike. Nothing has to be crossed and no waiting area has to be sat in, which for an anxious person removes the hardest part of the appointment. A regular hour, held each week, does the rest.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can anxiety counselling in Swansea 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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea come for anxiety counselling
People arrive with panic, with worry that will not switch off, or with a social dread that has been narrowing their life so gradually they only recently noticed. None of it is irrational. It is a threat system that has been trained by something and never retrained since. Personal wellbeing figures gave Swansea an average anxiety rating of 3.46 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3, which says something about the city and nothing about you in particular. Sessions are solution-focused and concrete. We work out the trigger, the physical response and the avoidance that has grown up around both, then give you methods for bringing the level down that you can actually use mid-shift. The avoided things are then rebuilt at a pace you set. Your GP is the NHS route to the local primary mental health support service, and Swansea Mind is in the city too.
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 Swansea
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Swansea, 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.
Swansea questions
Online Anxiety Counselling in Swansea: common questions
How do I get an appointment, and how long is the wait?
You start with a free 15-minute call, generally available within a few days. Nothing is decided in it. If you want to go ahead, weekly sessions usually begin within a week or two, and no referral from anybody is required at any stage.
What are the fees?
A 60-minute appointment costs £80. Ninety minutes is £100 and 120 minutes is £120, which some people prefer when there is a lot to cover. Anxiety work usually suits the hour. Nothing is charged for the 15-minute consultation at the beginning.
What is the NHS route for anxiety in Swansea?
Through your GP, who can refer you to the local primary mental health support service. How long that takes will depend on demand locally. Swansea Mind operates in the city, and CALL, the mental health helpline for Wales, is free and confidential on 0800 132 737.
I share a student house in Brynmill. Where would I even take a session?
Most people manage with headphones and a closed bedroom door, and we can pick a time when the house is quiet. If that is impossible, a study room or a parked car both work. The session is audio and video from your end only.
My shifts change constantly. Is weekly counselling realistic?
It is, and rotating hours are ordinary here. The diary can be set a few weeks ahead, and a fixed slot can be moved when a run of nights falls on it. What matters is that the sessions keep happening, not that they never move.
I can walk on Gower whenever I like, why would I need counselling for anxiety?
Fresh air and the coast genuinely help, but they rarely reach the underlying patterns that keep anxiety going. Counselling works alongside those walks, giving you tools that last beyond the moment. We meet by secure video wherever you are around the bay.
How soon can I begin online anxiety counselling in Swansea?
Often within a week of your free 15-minute consultation. Sessions run by secure video from my Hove practice, so whether you are in Uplands, Sketty or out towards Mumbles, you can start without waiting for travel or a room to become free in the city.
Are your anxiety fees different from NHS help in Swansea?
NHS Wales care through Swansea Bay University Health Board is free, though waits are common. I charge £80 for a 60-minute session, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation, so you can start privately and sooner if that suits you better.
Can people in Swansea have anxiety sessions in the evening online?
Yes, some evenings are available by secure video. That helps if you work at the docks, the marina or one of the campuses and cannot get away in the day. You join privately from home in Sketty or Gorseinon, so no drive across Swansea is needed after work.
Online Anxiety Counselling in Swansea, 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: Neath, Llanelli, Cardiff. See all of Wales.
Close to this in Swansea, there is depression counselling, trauma counselling and counselling and therapy.
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If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Hove, where the room is — all in-person areas are listed here.