Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Leeds
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leeds
Online counselling and therapy for Leeds, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Leeds, from the centre and the waterfront to the streets around the arcades, 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 Leeds
Counselling and Therapy for Leeds, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Leeds: from the centre and the waterfront to Headingley, Chapeltown, Armley and Roundhay
- Known for
- The arcades, the waterfront and the universities
- Region
- Yorkshire & North East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Leeds
Why do people in Leeds reach out?
Leeds is a good place to be busy and a hard place to admit you are not managing. There are students at the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University a term into a course they are no longer sure about, staff at Leeds Teaching Hospitals who cope all day for a living, and people in Armley and Holbeck holding a household together on money that keeps not being enough while the city centre visibly gets richer. Whatever the version, the shape is the same. You are functioning. You are also going home, closing the door and finding you have nothing left. Nobody has given this a name and you would rather not be the one to start.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Leeds
HeadingleyHyde ParkChapel AllertonRoundhayKirkstallMeanwoodHorsforthArmleyBeestonHolbeckMorleyPudsey
Wherever you are in Leeds, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Leeds
Official figures for Leeds, for context rather than as a description of you.
20.1% 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% 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 88 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.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: the counselling and therapy page sets out the methods, how sessions run and what they cost covers the practicalities, and professional standards and registration covers accountability.
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.
There is no consulting space in Leeds, because Bradley works from Hove and everything is delivered by secure video. It means no bus into town, no waiting area, and no explaining an absence to a manager. You can take an hour from a bedroom in Hyde Park or Kirkstall with the door shut. The free 15-minute consultation is a conversation, not an assessment, and afterwards you choose whether to book a weekly time at all.
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 Leeds
Why people in Leeds come for counselling and therapy
Counselling is the entry point, and it does not require you to have decided what is wrong. In Leeds, 20.1% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8%, which is a reminder that living somewhere statistically unremarkable makes no difference to your own Tuesday morning. We work with the present: what the week is actually like, what you dread, what you are doing to get through it. It is shorter to medium term, usually weekly, commonly a few months, and it ends when you have what you came for. Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service takes self-referrals for anxiety and depression, and Leeds Mind runs local support groups and advice; if drink or drugs are in the picture, Forward Leeds is free and confidential. Any of those can be used before, after or alongside this. Nothing here is exclusive.
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 Leeds
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Leeds, you can refer yourself directly to Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service 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.
Leeds questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leeds: common questions
How quickly could I start, compared with waiting for the NHS?
Usually within a week or two of the free consultation, sometimes sooner. Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service is free and worth joining if you can wait, and plenty of people do both: put your name down there and begin talking privately in the meantime rather than sitting with it.
What do sessions cost and can I pay week by week?
Yes, week by week. £80 buys 60 minutes, £100 buys 90 and £120 buys 120, with the first 15-minute conversation free. There is no minimum number of sessions and no charge for stopping. Most people beginning this kind of work take the standard hour.
Is counselling the right thing if my problem is money and hours, not my head?
Talking will not fix a rent rise or a rota. What it changes is the part that has stopped being about circumstances, the low-level dread, the sleeplessness, the sense of being trapped, which tends to outlast the situation that started it unless something interrupts it.
I am a student here and homesick, but that sounds trivial. Is it?
It is one of the most common reasons people this age come, and it is rarely trivial. Being away from everyone who knew the old version of you can dismantle a sense of self quite quietly. Six or eight sessions is often enough to steady it.
What if we start and it turns out I need something deeper?
Then we say so. Some people find a few months does the job and stop. Others discover the same pattern underneath and move into longer psychotherapy with the same person, which saves telling the whole story again to somebody new.
I am good at coping. Why would I need counselling?
Coping and being well are not the same thing. In a driven city like Leeds, plenty of people keep functioning while quietly struggling. Counselling gives you an honest hour, online from Hove, to stop performing and say how things really are.
Is online counselling available for people in Leeds, and how quickly could I begin?
It is. From my Hove base I see clients right across Leeds by secure video, so a busy professional week around the two universities or the city centre need not mean a long wait. After a free 15-minute call we can usually book a first session within days.
How much is counselling in Leeds, and how does it compare with the NHS?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, with 90 or 120-minute options at £100 and £120. NHS Talking Therapies in Leeds is free and you can self-refer, though there can be a wait. Private online work simply lets us start sooner and choose a time that suits you.
Can I have counselling in the evening without travelling into central Leeds?
Yes. Everything happens by video, so you join from Roundhay, Chapel Allerton or wherever you are, with no parking or tram to think about. I hold some evening appointments for people who cannot step away in the working day, and we would keep the same regular slot each week.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leeds, 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 Yorkshire & North East: Bradford, Wakefield, Sheffield. See all of Yorkshire & North East.
Related work in Leeds: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about where to start when you cannot name it and how change actually sticks.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same counselling and therapy is available in person, in Hove, where the room is, or see every area I cover.