Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Liverpool
Online Counselling and Therapy in Liverpool
Online counselling and therapy for Liverpool, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Liverpool, from the waterfront and the centre to the streets around the two cathedrals, 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 Liverpool
Counselling and Therapy for Liverpool, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Liverpool: from the waterfront and the centre to Toxteth, Anfield, Allerton and Walton
- Known for
- The waterfront, the two cathedrals and the music heritage
- Region
- North West (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 Liverpool
What is going on for people in Liverpool?
A great many people in this city are the one everybody else leans on. You sort things out, you keep the family going, you are good in a crisis, and there is no room in that description for you not being alright. So when something goes quietly wrong, there is nowhere obvious to put it. It might be a job in the Baltic Triangle that has stopped feeling like anything, a course at the University of Liverpool that is going fine on paper, or a flat in Kensington where you have stopped answering messages. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital handles emergencies. There is no front door for the thing that has not become one.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Liverpool
the city centre and waterfrontToxtethAnfieldAllertonWaltonAigburthWavertreeWooltonKensingtonthe Baltic Triangle
Wherever you are in Liverpool, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Liverpool
Official figures for Liverpool, for context rather than as a description of you.
22.5% 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 17.4% 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 123.8 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 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: everything on counselling and therapy 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.
This is online counselling from Hove, by video or phone, which is often what makes a first attempt possible. Nobody has to be told, no day off is needed and there is no waiting room. You can start with a single session, take it from your kitchen or your car, and decide afterwards whether to come back. Nothing is booked in blocks. If being on camera feels like too much to begin with, we can talk by phone instead.
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 Liverpool
Why people in Liverpool come for counselling and therapy
This is the entry point, deliberately. No diagnosis, no label and no requirement to explain yourself well. We work with the present: what this week has actually been like, what you are avoiding, what is keeping you awake. Sessions run short to medium term, commonly six to twelve, reviewed rather than fixed in advance. Reported anxiety in the city sits slightly under the national picture, at 22.5% of adults in 2022/23 against an England average of 23.8%, which is worth holding lightly, because a place with a strong culture of coping is also a place where people do not always report how they feel. The NHS Talking Therapies finder is free, England-wide and takes self-referrals directly, with no need to see a doctor first. River, the Change Grow Live drug and alcohol service in Liverpool, is the route if drinking has quietly become the way you get through an evening.
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 Liverpool
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Liverpool, 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.
Liverpool questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Liverpool: common questions
I am the one who looks after everyone else. Does that make this self-indulgent?
No, and it is one of the more common things people say in a first session. Carrying other people is not a reason to go without help yourself. In practice, the household usually benefits when the person holding it together has somewhere to put their own week.
How much and how does payment work?
You pay per session: £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90. Nothing is taken in advance and there is no minimum number. Before starting, a 15-minute conversation costs nothing at all, so you can find out how I work without spending anything.
Is it worth self-referring through the NHS as well?
Yes, it costs nothing and does not need your doctor. The NHS Talking Therapies finder is the England route. Waiting times differ across the city, so some people put their name in and begin here meanwhile, then keep whichever suits when a place comes up.
I do not want to be labelled with anything. Will I be?
You will not. Counselling is not a medical service, nothing is diagnosed and nothing is added to your health record. What you say stays in the session. People sometimes find a word for what they are experiencing, but that is their word, not a file entry.
How many sessions before I know if it is helping?
Usually three or four. The first tends to bring some relief simply from saying things out loud, which is not the same as change. By the third or fourth you should have a fair sense of whether this way of working suits you.
Is this the same as the NHS talking therapies in Liverpool?
No. I'm an independent counsellor working online from Hove, separate from NHS Talking Therapies Liverpool. Some people come to me while waiting for NHS support, others prefer private sessions from the start. I'm glad to talk through which route might suit you, with no pressure either way.
How quickly can I begin counselling in Liverpool?
Generally within a week or so. Being online from Hove means no local waiting list, so after a free fifteen-minute call I can usually offer a first session soon after. Wherever you are across Merseyside, from Woolton to Kensington, we meet by secure video or phone.
What are your fees, and should I try the NHS in Liverpool first?
The standard sixty-minute session is £80, with ninety minutes at £100 and two hours at £120. NHS Talking Therapies Liverpool is free but can involve a wait, so some people begin privately with me in the meantime. Your first fifteen-minute consultation costs nothing.
Do you offer evening counselling for people working in Liverpool?
Yes. Online sessions make evenings and quieter daytime times easier to keep, which helps whether you are in the Baltic Triangle studios or on shifts near the docks. We would agree one regular time and hold it week to week, so it becomes dependable rather than one more thing to arrange.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Liverpool, 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 North West: Warrington, Preston, Chester. See all of North West.
Close to this in Liverpool, there is 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.
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.