Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Leicester
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leicester
Online counselling and therapy for Leicester, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Leicester, from the centre and the Cultural Quarter to the streets around the market, 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 Leicester
Counselling and Therapy for Leicester, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Leicester: from the centre and the Cultural Quarter to Belgrave, Highfields and Clarendon Park
- Known for
- The market, the King Richard III centre and the universities
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Talking Therapies (find via the NHS finder)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Leicester
What brings people in Leicester to counselling?
You are not ill, exactly. You are just less than you were, and it has been going on long enough that you have stopped expecting it to lift on its own. In a city where a lot of people are working hard, holding families together and getting on with it, saying that out loud can feel self-indulgent. Perhaps you are studying at the University of Leicester or De Montfort University and the year has not gone the way you planned. Perhaps you have been on your feet in a job near the covered market for a decade. There is no requirement to arrive with a name for it, or with a reason anyone else would accept.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Leicester
BelgraveHighfieldsClarendon ParkEvingtonKnightonAylestoneBraunstoneStoneygateWestcotesOadby
Wherever you are in Leicester, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Leicester
Official figures for Leicester, for context rather than as a description of you.
21% 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 11.3% 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 176 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.
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 does meeting by video work in practice?
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.
Counselling here is delivered online from Hove, which suits a city where discretion often matters more than anything else. Nobody is seen going in. The free 15-minute consultation needs a quiet half hour and no explanation to anybody. Weekly sessions follow if you want them, usually an hour, and can be arranged around shifts, study, prayer times or a household where quiet is scarce until late in the evening.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can counselling and therapy in Leicester 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 Leicester
Why people in Leicester come for counselling and therapy
This is the starting point when you cannot yet say what the trouble is. There is no assessment to pass and no category to bring. We begin with your last week in plain terms: what happened, what you avoided, what has quietly stopped being enjoyable. That usually produces the name, and a named difficulty is one you can actually work on. Recorded depression on Leicester GP registers stood at 11.3% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%, and a low figure of that sort is a count of who told a doctor. In communities where you would not take low mood to the surgery, the count and the reality part company. This work stays in the present and is often short: six to twelve sessions changes a lot. If you would rather try the NHS first, the NHS Talking Therapies finder takes self-referrals across England.
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 Leicester
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Leicester, you can refer yourself directly to NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression, with no GP referral needed. You can find support through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
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.
Leicester questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leicester: common questions
I have no idea what any of this should be called. Where would we even start?
With last week. Not your childhood, not a diagnosis, just what the days actually contained and which parts you dreaded. Most people find the shape of the problem emerges within two or three sessions from exactly that, and it is far easier to work on once it has a shape.
How much is it, and do I have to keep coming?
The hour is £80, ninety minutes £100 and two hours £120, and you book one session at a time. Nothing is sold as a course and you can stop whenever it has done what you needed. A free 15-minute conversation comes first so you can decide without spending anything.
Which NHS service should I approach here?
In England the NHS Talking Therapies finder lets you refer yourself for low mood or anxiety without a GP appointment first, and it is a reasonable place to begin. Waits vary considerably. Some people start privately and let an NHS referral run in the background rather than choosing between them.
I live in a full house in Evington. When is anyone supposed to talk privately?
Late evening slots exist for precisely this reason, and headphones do more than people expect. Some clients use a car; some book while the house is at work or at school. Tell me what the household looks like on the free call and we will find an hour that genuinely works.
Is this the same as the deeper therapy Bradley offers?
It is not. Counselling stays close to what is happening now and usually runs weeks or a few months. Psychotherapy goes back into how patterns were formed and takes far longer. Starting here and moving on later, if it turns out to be needed, is an entirely normal route.
Is everything kept genuinely private?
Yes. Sessions are confidential, and because they take place online you can join from wherever feels most private. In close-knit communities that matters all the more, and meeting by video means there is no waiting room and no risk of bumping into someone you know.
Is there a waiting list to start online counselling in Leicester?
Online counselling and therapy is open to everyone in Leicester, with no waiting list. It starts with a free 15-minute consultation so you can gauge the fit, then weekly sessions usually follow soon after, whether you are in Evington, Stoneygate or nearer the university campuses.
How much is private counselling in Leicester compared with NHS talking therapies?
Leicester'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 at De Montfort or Leicester University combine both routes.
How does online counselling work for people in Leicester, and can sessions be in the evening?
Sessions are delivered by video, so you only need a private space and a reliable connection, be that in Aylestone or Westcotes. Evening appointments are often possible, which suits a long working day or study deadlines around the two universities in the city.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Leicester, 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: Nottingham, Coventry, Derby. See all of Midlands.
Also available in Leicester: 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.
Within reach of Sussex? counselling and therapy is offered in the room in Brighton as well as online; see the full list of areas.