Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Kettering
Online Counselling and Therapy in Kettering
Online counselling and therapy for Kettering, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Kettering, from the town centre and the parish church to the streets around the parish church spire, 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 Kettering
Counselling and Therapy for Kettering, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Kettering: from the town centre and the parish church to Barton Seagrave, Mawsley and Burton Latimer
- Known for
- The parish church spire, the Alfred East gallery and the surrounding countryside
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Kettering
What brings people in Kettering to counselling?
In a town this size, everybody's business travels. Your GP surgery is the one your neighbour uses, your children are at school with the receptionist's children, and asking for help means being seen asking. So a lot of people in Kettering wait. The sleep goes first, then the patience, then the pleasure in things, and there is still no event to point at that would make it make sense to anyone. You might be at Kettering General Hospital on your feet all day, or driving out of Broughton before dawn. What you have is a fog, not a story, and that is a perfectly good place to begin from.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Kettering
Barton SeagraveMawsleyBurton LatimerBroughtonGeddingtonWeekleyWarktonPytchleyCranfordGrafton Underwood
Wherever you are in Kettering, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Kettering
Official figures for Kettering, for context rather than as a description of you.
17.4% 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 16.5% 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 122.4 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.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the main counselling and therapy page explains it properly, how sessions run and what they cost answers the practical questions, and qualifications, registration and ethics 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.
This is online work, run from Hove, and for a market town that is often the entire appeal. There is no local car park to be recognised in and no reception to walk past. A free 15-minute call is the starting point and asks only for a quiet half hour. Weekly hours follow if you want them, arranged round shifts, school runs or a commute, and moved rather than cancelled when the week goes wrong.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can counselling and therapy in Kettering 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 Kettering
Why people in Kettering come for counselling and therapy
Nothing here requires you to name the problem first. That is the whole point of this kind of counselling: it starts where you actually are, with the last seven days rather than your childhood. What you got through, what you dodged, what you have stopped enjoying without ever deciding to stop. The name usually arrives from that, and once a thing is named it becomes workable. It also helps to know you are not unusual. Recorded depression on Kettering GP registers stood at 16.5% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. This is short to medium work, present-focused, and often eight to twelve sessions is enough. If something older is underneath it, we will notice together and you can decide what you want to do next. NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies is the self-referral route locally.
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 Kettering
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Kettering, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Northamptonshire 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.
Kettering questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Kettering: common questions
Can I book if I cannot explain what is actually wrong?
That is the usual starting point rather than a barrier. You bring what you can observe, and the words come later. Poor sleep, a temper that surprises you, a Sunday evening dread with no obvious cause: any of that is enough to begin a first conversation on.
What does it cost, and can I try just one?
One hour is £80, an hour and a half is £100 and two hours is £120, and there is no obligation to book more than the next one. Most people begin with the hour. Before that, a 15-minute consultation costs nothing and is a reasonable way to test whether this suits you.
What can the NHS offer me here?
NHS Northamptonshire Talking Therapies handles anxiety and low mood, and in England you refer yourself straight to it rather than needing a GP appointment first. Waits are not the same in every part of North Northamptonshire. A number of people keep that referral moving while starting privately, so they are not waiting with nothing.
Everyone knows everyone here. How private does this actually stay in a town this size?
Very. There is nowhere local for anyone to see you going, no shared waiting room, and nothing on a local record. What is said in sessions stays between us within the usual professional limits, which are explained clearly at the start rather than buried somewhere.
Is counselling only for people who have had something terrible happen?
No, and that belief keeps a lot of people struggling for years. Plenty of what people bring is ordinary and cumulative: work, money, caring for a parent, a marriage running on empty. Ordinary things wear people down, and they respond well to being talked about properly.
Do you offer face-to-face counselling in Kettering?
No, the consulting room is in Hove, so Kettering is served online. For people in the town and the surrounding villages, meeting by video often works out easier than travelling, needing only a quiet space at home and a reliable internet connection.
Is there a waiting list to start online counselling in Kettering?
Counselling and therapy is open to anyone in Kettering online, with no waiting list. It begins with a free 15-minute consultation to check the fit, and weekly sessions usually follow shortly, whether you live in Geddington, Cranford or nearer the town centre.
How much is private counselling in Kettering compared with NHS talking therapies?
Kettering's NHS Talking Therapies are free but often oversubscribed, so a wait is likely. Private sessions cost £80 an hour, 100 for 90 minutes and 120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. Some people use both routes while the NHS list moves.
How does online counselling work for people in Kettering, and can sessions be in the evening?
Sessions are held by video, which removes the road journeys the surrounding villages usually mean. A private space and a reliable connection are all you need, from Pytchley to Warkton, and evening appointments are often possible when work runs late.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Kettering, 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: Northampton, Peterborough. See all of Midlands.
Related work in Kettering: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
You may also find it useful to read about where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
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.