Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Dundee
Online Counselling and Therapy in Dundee
Online counselling and therapy for Dundee, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Dundee, from the waterfront and the centre to the streets around the V&A, 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 Dundee
Counselling and Therapy for Dundee, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Dundee: from the waterfront and the centre to Lochee, Broughty Ferry and the Hilltown
- Known for
- The V&A, the Tay and the design quarter
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Dundee
What is going on for people in Dundee?
Dundee carries a striking contrast: gleaming buildings along the waterfront and, ten minutes uphill, some of the sharpest deprivation in Scotland. That gap does something to people. Students at Abertay University describe the pressure to be doing brilliantly on a course that costs a fortune, while people in Lochee and Menzieshill describe years of getting by on jobs that keep disappearing. Neither group necessarily has words for what is wrong. What they have is a great deal of tiredness, a short fuse, and the habit of saying they are fine because everybody here says they are fine. Counselling is often the first place that habit gets put down.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Dundee
LocheeBroughty FerryHilltownStobswellWest EndMenzieshillMaryfieldDouglasFintry
Wherever you are in Dundee, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
What would we do together in counselling and therapy?
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.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: counselling and therapy in detail sets out the methods, session lengths and fees covers the practicalities, and how to check my registration covers accountability.
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.
Sessions are online because Bradley is in Hove and there is no room in the city. For a first piece of counselling that removes a lot of friction. You need no bus fare, no explanation for an absence, and no half hour in a waiting area rehearsing what to say. A weekly slot taken from your own home is easier to keep than one across town, and when a shift changes we can move it rather than abandon the week.
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 Dundee
Why people in Dundee come for counselling and therapy
People arrive here without a diagnosis and often without a story. Something has gone wrong with sleep, or with concentration, or with the ability to care about things that used to matter. We stay in the present and work out what is keeping it going. Drink is worth naming, because it sits quietly in the picture more often than people expect. Figures from National Records of Scotland put the age-standardised alcohol-specific death rate in Dundee City at 28.2 per 100,000 over 2020-2024, well above the Scotland average of 21.9. Nobody has to have a problem to notice that the evenings have started to need something. This is short to medium term work, present-focused and reviewed openly. Your GP can also refer you to NHS psychological therapies, NHS inform has trusted self-help, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 Dundee
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Dundee, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and you can find trusted self-help through NHS inform. You can find support through NHS inform; for confidential listening support, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Dundee questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Dundee: common questions
Where do I even start if I do not know what is wrong?
With the free consultation, which asks nothing of you except fifteen minutes. After that, a first full session is mostly you talking and me listening for the pattern. People are often surprised how much becomes clear once it is said out loud to someone with no stake in the outcome.
Is counselling any use if my real problem is money and insecure work?
It cannot pay a bill, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What it can do is separate the situation from what the situation has convinced you about yourself, and give the strain somewhere to go other than into every conversation at home. That turns out to matter a great deal.
What do sessions cost, and how often would I be coming?
Weekly is the usual rhythm and an hour costs £80. Ninety minutes is £100 if you want more space, and £120 covers two hours. The 15-minute consultation beforehand is free and puts nothing in the diary. Fortnightly suits some people, particularly once things have started to settle down again.
How do I get NHS help in Dundee instead?
Ask your GP, who can refer you into NHS psychological therapies. NHS inform holds self-help material worth using while you wait for an appointment, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87 if the evenings are when it gets heavy. Doing both is perfectly reasonable.
I am a student at Abertay University and cannot afford to fall behind. Will this take over my week?
One hour a week, from your own room, with no travel on either side of it. That is easier to protect than a lecture. If deadlines pile up we can drop to fortnightly for a stretch rather than stopping altogether, and pick the frequency back up when term calms down.
I'm a student in Dundee, can I still see you privately?
Yes. Alongside any support your university offers, you can arrange private sessions by secure video from your flat or halls. Many students prefer keeping counselling separate from campus, and video makes that straightforward wherever you are living across the city.
How quickly can counselling begin in Dundee?
Often within days. A free 15-minute call comes first, then we arrange your opening secure video session around your week. There is no NHS Tayside waiting list to join and nothing to cross the city for, so starting counselling in Dundee is usually quick and simple.
How do your fees compare with NHS counselling in Dundee?
Counselling is £80 for 60 minutes, with 90-minute and two-hour sessions at £100 and £120, plus a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Tayside talking therapy is free but can involve a wait, so paying privately mainly buys a sooner, more flexible start from home.
I am a Dundee student, does online counselling suit me?
Yes. Alongside any support your university offers, you can arrange private secure video sessions from your flat or halls. Many students prefer keeping counselling separate from campus, and video makes that easy wherever you live in Dundee, with the same confidential hour each week.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Dundee, 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 Scotland: Perth, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy. See all of Scotland.
Also available in Dundee: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
You may also find it useful to read about how change actually sticks and where to start when you cannot name it.
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.