Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Horsham
Online Counselling and Therapy in Horsham
Online counselling and therapy for Horsham, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Horsham, from the Carfax and the old centre out to the streets around the Causeway, 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 Horsham
Counselling and Therapy for Horsham, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Horsham: from the Carfax and the old centre out to Roffey, Broadbridge Heath and Southwater
- Known for
- The Carfax, the Causeway and the surrounding Weald
- 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 Horsham
Why people in Horsham get in touch
A settled life can go wrong very quietly. The job is fine, the house near Denne or Warnham is fine, the children are fine, and you have felt oddly absent from all of it since some point last year. Nothing you could describe to a doctor in a ten-minute appointment. In a town that runs on the insurance and professional-services sector and the commuter line to London, the working week takes almost everything and hands back an evening in which you are too depleted to notice what is missing. People here are good at coping and less practised at saying they would rather not. Counselling is the ordinary first place for a difficulty that has not yet acquired a name.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Horsham
RoffeyBroadbridge HeathSouthwaterLittlehavenWarnhamDenneTrafalgarHorsham Park
Wherever you are in Horsham, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Horsham
Official figures for Horsham, 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 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: the main counselling and therapy page sets out the methods, the practical side covers the practicalities, and professional standards and 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 run online by secure video, because there is nowhere to sit down together in Horsham and Bradley is in Hove. For a first course of counselling that takes out the travel and the visibility in one go: no journey after work, no car park, no chance of seeing somebody you know on your way in. You need an hour, a door that closes and headphones. Early mornings before the train and later evenings are the slots most people take.
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 Horsham
Why people in Horsham come for counselling and therapy
This is where to begin when you cannot yet name the problem, and naming it is not the entry requirement. The work sits in the present: what is happening now, what it takes out of you, and what could look different in a few months rather than a few years. Distress in comfortable places is easy to miss until late. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm in this area ran at 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000, and appearances are a poor guide to what people are carrying. The first hour is a stocktake rather than a repair: sleep, drink, money, work, who you can be honest with, what changed and when. For a good many people six to twelve sessions is enough to get their footing back. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is the free self-referral alternative 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 Horsham
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Horsham, 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.
Horsham questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Horsham: common questions
There is nothing obviously wrong with my life here. Is that a reason not to bother?
No, and it is one of the more common opening sentences. Counselling does not ask you to justify the hour with a catastrophe. If something has been off long enough that you are reading about therapy, that is reason enough to have the free 15-minute call and see.
What are the fees and is there a minimum number of sessions?
There is no minimum. You pay for each hour as you have it at £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min or £120 / 120 min, with nothing paid up front and no notice period if you want to stop. The 15-minute introductory conversation before you begin is free.
Is NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies the better place to start?
For a lot of people it is, because it is free and you refer yourself without your GP. The course is structured and time-limited and aimed at anxiety and depression, and waits move about. Some people finish one and bring whatever it did not reach to a private hour afterwards.
I am on the train before seven and back after eight. Realistically, when?
Early mornings work for a surprising number of commuters, taken from home before the first train. Otherwise the later evening is the answer. A day working from home usually opens up a lunchtime, and a fixed weekly slot is far easier to protect than a moveable one.
Would anyone locally know I was having counselling?
No. The sessions are held by video, so there is no building anybody sees you enter and no appointment in a local diary. What you say stays between us, within the usual professional limits around risk to life, and nothing goes to your GP or your employer without your agreement.
From the outside my life looks fine. Is it still okay to seek counselling?
Absolutely. Struggling quietly behind a settled surface is very common in Horsham, and how things look to others says nothing about how they feel. An online session gives you a private, judgment-free hour to be honest, without anyone in town needing to know.
How quickly can counselling start online for someone in Horsham?
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, so whether you are by the Carfax or out in Southwater, there is no journey to add to a commuting week.
How do your fees sit against the NHS in Horsham?
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 keeps a consistent weekly time.
There is quiet pressure here to look as though all is well. Is online counselling private?
Yes. Behind a comfortable surface there is often more strain than shows, and online sessions let you talk without being seen entering a local practice. You join from a private room at home, at an evening time if you prefer, and everything remains confidential.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Horsham, 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: Crawley, Chichester. See all of London & South East.
Also available in Horsham: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: 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.