Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Coventry
Online Counselling and Therapy in Coventry
Online counselling and therapy for Coventry, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Coventry, from the city centre and the two cathedrals to the streets around the cathedral ruins, 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 Coventry
Counselling and Therapy for Coventry, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Coventry: from the city centre and the two cathedrals to Earlsdon, Foleshill and Tile Hill
- Known for
- The cathedral ruins, the transport museum and the two universities
- 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 Coventry
What brings people in Coventry to counselling?
Coventry has rebuilt itself more than once, and there is a local expectation that a person should be able to do the same. So when the flatness arrives without a reason attached, it can feel almost embarrassing. Maybe you came for a degree and simply stayed, and the friends who made the place bearable moved on. Maybe you have watched an industry contract, come back, contract again. Whatever the shape of it, you find yourself unable to explain what is wrong, only that something is, and that saying so out loud in Cheylesmore or Radford would feel like making a fuss about nothing much.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Coventry
EarlsdonFoleshillTile HillChapelfieldsCheylesmoreRadfordCoundonStokeCanleyBinley
Wherever you are in Coventry, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Coventry
Official figures for Coventry, for context rather than as a description of you.
23% 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).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 13.3% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 79.8 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Reviewed June 2026.
What does counselling and therapy involve?
Counselling and therapy here is one steady starting point for whatever you are carrying, anxiety, low mood, addiction, relationships or the past, integrative and led by you, so we begin with what matters most and shape the work around you.
Rather than say the same thing on every page, the substance lives on the main counselling and therapy page, with how I work, sessions and fees for the practical questions and qualifications, registration and ethics for registration and ethics.
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.
This is online counselling, run from Hove. No car park, no reception desk, nobody in a corridor who might recognise you. That anonymity matters in a city where a lot of people work for the same handful of employers. The free 15-minute call needs a quiet half hour and nothing else. Weekly hours follow if you want them, and they can be moved when a rota changes rather than abandoned altogether.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does counselling and therapy help with?
Low mood and depression
For the flatness, exhaustion and loss of interest that drain the colour from things.
Addiction and habits
Alcohol, drugs, gambling or behaviours that have stopped feeling like a choice.
Relationships
Conflict, distance and trust, as a couple or on your own.
Trauma and the past
When something you have been through still shapes your present.
Life feeling stuck
For the big transitions, losses and crossroads that leave you unsure which way to turn.
Counselling and Therapy in Coventry
Why people in Coventry come for counselling and therapy
You are allowed to arrive with no label. In fact most people who start here cannot say what the problem is, only that the days have gone grey and something has to give. So we begin with the concrete: the week you have just had, the bits of it you dreaded, what you have quietly stopped doing. Naming usually follows that, rather than preceding it. Recorded depression on Coventry GP registers reached 13.3% of adults in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%, which is a count of diagnoses rather than of suffering. A young, student-heavy city where people move on every few years will always under-record. This work is present-focused and often shorter than people fear: six to twelve sessions resolves a good deal of it. If more turns out to be needed, we say so honestly. NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies is the self-referral route if you want to try that first.
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 Coventry
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Coventry, 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.
Coventry questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Coventry: common questions
Do I need to know what is wrong before I book anything?
No, and most people do not. Finding the words is part of the work, not the entry fee for it. Come with the raw material, whatever it is: waking at four, dreading Sunday nights, snapping at people who did nothing. That is plenty for a first conversation to run on.
What am I paying, and can I stop after a few weeks?
Sixty minutes costs £80, with £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours. Most people beginning here choose the hour. You can stop whenever you have got what you came for; nothing is sold in courses. Before any of that the 15-minute consultation is free, so you can hear how it works.
Where do I start on the NHS in Coventry?
NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies is the local NHS Talking Therapies service, and you can refer yourself directly. It handles low mood and anxiety in England without needing a GP appointment first. Waits differ. Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Mind can offer something local while you sit on a list.
I am a student in Canley. What happens over the holidays?
The work simply continues. Because everything runs by video, the address you dial in from is irrelevant, so nothing has to stop and restart around term. Students at Coventry University and the University of Warwick often say that unbroken thread is the main reason they chose this over a service tied to campus.
Is counselling wasted on someone whose problems are mostly practical?
Money worries and insecure work are real problems, and no conversation makes them vanish. What changes is what they do to you: the sleeplessness, the shame, the sense of being on your own with it. People in Foleshill and Tile Hill often come for exactly that and leave better able to think.
I've just started at university here and feel adrift, can this help?
Yes. Homesickness and feeling unmoored are common in your first terms, and talking it through can steady things. Because counselling is online, you can meet from your room or a quiet corner without travelling, and sessions can often be arranged around your timetable.
Is there a waiting list to start online counselling in Coventry?
Counselling and therapy is available to anyone in Coventry online, with no list to wait on. It starts with a free 15-minute consultation to check the fit, and regular weekly sessions usually follow shortly once a time is set, wherever you are between Binley and the city centre.
How much is private counselling in Coventry compared with NHS talking therapies?
The free NHS route in Coventry is there but often busy, so a wait is likely. Private sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, 100 for 90 and 120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation first. Some students at Coventry or Warwick pair the two approaches.
How does online counselling work for people in Coventry, and can sessions be in the evening?
Everything happens by video, so a private room and a stable connection are all you need, whether in Chapelfields or Canley. Evening slots are frequently possible, which suits people working long days across the automotive supply chain or studying at the University of Warwick.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Coventry, 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, Leicester, Solihull. See all of Midlands.
Related work in Coventry: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about how change actually sticks and where to start when you cannot name it.
Within reach of Sussex? counselling and therapy is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.