Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Crawley
Online Counselling and Therapy in Crawley
Online counselling and therapy for Crawley, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Crawley, from across the neighbourhoods, Three Bridges and Pound Hill to the streets around Tilgate Park, 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 Crawley
Counselling and Therapy for Crawley, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Crawley: across the neighbourhoods, from Three Bridges and Pound Hill to Bewbush, Ifield and Tilgate
- Known for
- Tilgate Park, the High Street and nearby Gatwick
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Crawley
Why people in Crawley get in touch
Night shifts rearrange a person quietly. You sleep in the afternoon, eat at odd hours, and after a while you cannot tell whether you are unhappy or simply tired. A great many people here live that way, on rotas tied to the aviation and logistics sector, and the town keeps going through the night whether or not you are ready for it. Others in Broadfield, Gossops Green and Southgate work entirely ordinary hours and still cannot name what has changed. Nothing has collapsed. You are short with the people you love, you dread the alarm, and you would not know what to call any of it if a doctor asked. That is a reasonable point at which to talk to somebody.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Crawley
Three BridgesPound HillBewbushIfieldTilgateSouthgateBroadfieldMaidenbowerGossops GreenFurnace Green
Wherever you are in Crawley, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Crawley
Official figures for Crawley, for context rather than as a description of you.
24.5% 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).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 14.5% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is counselling and therapy, in practice?
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.
The method travels; only the geography changes. everything on counselling and therapy explains it properly, session lengths and fees answers the practical questions, and my BACP 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.
Everything here is online by secure video; there is no room in Crawley and Bradley is in Hove. That is what makes counselling possible around a rota at all. An appointment can sit at seven in the morning after a run of nights or in the middle of a weekday afternoon. Nobody sees you go in anywhere, which counts for something if you work alongside half the people you know. A shut door, an hour and headphones is the whole requirement.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does counselling and therapy address?
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 Crawley
Why people in Crawley come for counselling and therapy
Come here first when you do not yet have a word for it. The work is present-focused and usually shorter than psychotherapy: what is happening now, how it is affecting your sleep and your temper and the people around you, and what could realistically be different in a few months. Disrupted sleep does a great deal of damage on its own, and shift patterns make low mood very hard to tell apart from exhaustion. Recorded depression on GP registers stood at 14.5% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25, a little above the England average of 14.3%, and a great deal of low mood never reaches a GP register at all. The first session is about getting the picture straight rather than repairing anything. Six to twelve sessions settles most of what people bring. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is the free self-referral route if cost is the deciding factor.
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 Crawley
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Crawley, you can refer yourself directly to NHS West Sussex 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.
Crawley questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Crawley: common questions
I work nights at the airport. Can appointments really fit round that?
They can, and a fair number of people here work exactly that way. Early mornings after a night run, mid-afternoons before a late, and days off in the middle of the week are all usable. We hold one regular hour where the roster allows and move it deliberately when it does not.
How much does counselling cost, and do I have to commit?
Sessions are paid one at a time: £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety, £120 for two hours. Nothing is booked as a block and you can stop at any point without giving a reason. The 15-minute consultation beforehand costs nothing and is a conversation rather than an assessment.
Is NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies worth trying first?
For a lot of people, yes. It is free, you can refer yourself without seeing a GP, and the courses are structured and aimed at anxiety and depression. Waiting times vary. Some run both, using the NHS course and bringing whatever falls outside it to a private hour.
I cannot tell if I am depressed or just wrecked from shifts. Is counselling the right place?
It is a good place to sort that out. Separating exhaustion from low mood is often the first useful piece of work, because the two feel nearly identical from inside and respond to quite different things. If something looks medical we would talk about seeing your GP as well, not instead.
Will anybody at work find out?
No. What you say stays between us, within the usual professional limits around risk to life, and those would be discussed with you rather than sprung on you. Nothing reaches your employer or your GP without your agreement. Sessions run by secure video, so there is no building anyone sees you enter.
My sleep is all over the place because of shift work. Can sessions fit around that?
Yes. Because you join from home with nothing to travel to, we can book a time that fits your particular rota, whether that is a morning after a late finish or a gap between shifts. The aim is to work around your pattern rather than against it.
How quickly can counselling begin online in Crawley?
Generally within days. With no waiting list, a free 15-minute consultation is usually followed by a first session that same week. It is held securely online, joined from home in Bewbush, Tilgate or Ifield, so a shift-based week around the airport need not be reshaped to attend.
How do the fees work versus the NHS in Crawley?
You pay £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes or £120 for 120 minutes, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Talking Therapies is free to self-refer to but can mean waiting, while private counselling with Bradley starts sooner and holds a steady time around unsocial hours.
Shift work leaves my sleep and mood all over the place. Can online counselling fit?
Yes. Rotas that take a toll on sleep and mood are exactly what many people here bring. Because there is nothing to travel to, we book around your changing shifts, with earlier or later slots as needed, and keep the time consistent even when the pattern shifts.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Crawley, 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 London & South East: Horsham, Chichester. See all of London & South East.
If counselling and therapy is not quite what you are looking for, anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy may fit better in Crawley.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
For anyone near the coast, the same counselling and therapy runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.