Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Newport
Online Counselling and Therapy in Newport
Online counselling and therapy for Newport, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Newport, from the centre and the transporter bridge to the streets around the river Usk, 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 Newport
Counselling and Therapy for Newport, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Newport: from the centre and the transporter bridge to Maindee, Bettws and Ringland
- Known for
- The transporter bridge, the river Usk and the wetlands
- Region
- Wales
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Wales)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Newport
What brings people in Newport to counselling?
Newport has been remaking itself for a long time, and living somewhere permanently halfway through something can be unsettling in a way that is hard to point at. You might be studying at the university campus in the city, or working for a firm that has changed hands twice in five years, or between things and not saying so. Nothing has gone badly wrong. You simply notice that you are short with the people you like, awake at three, and unable to name whatever is sitting on your chest. In Maindee or Stow Hill that gets put down to work, or money, or the time of year. It may well be all three, and still worth an hour a week.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Newport
MaindeeBettwsRinglandPillStow HillCaerleonMalpasRogerstoneSt JuliansAlwayGaer
Wherever you are in Newport, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Newport
Official figures for Newport, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Newport the average anxiety rating was 3.22 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, marginally below the Wales average of 3.3 (a higher score indicates more anxiety). Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Newport, 11.8% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, in line with the Wales average of 10.4%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Newport, 8.5% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Wales average of 6.9%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
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 full counselling and therapy page sets out the methods, how sessions run and what they cost covers the practicalities, and qualifications, registration and ethics 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 for Newport run by secure video, because Bradley works from one room in Hove. For a first course of counselling that lowers several barriers at once: no travel, no waiting area, nobody to walk past on your way in. It opens with a free 15-minute call that costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If you go on from there, appointments are weekly at a time that fits work or study, and the slot can shift when your circumstances do.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
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 Newport
Why people in Newport come for counselling and therapy
This is the general door, and it is meant to be easy to push open. No label is needed, no referral, no clear account of what is wrong. Many people arrive able to say only that they have not felt like themselves for a while, and that is a perfectly good beginning. Early sessions are descriptive: what your days look like, when it is at its worst, what you have already tried, what you are quietly avoiding. Once the shape of it is visible, we work on it directly. In Newport the average anxiety rating was 3.22 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, marginally below the Wales average of 3.3. Expect between six sessions and a few months, aimed at what is happening now rather than at your whole history. If it emerges that the pattern is old and keeps repeating, longer therapy exists, but that is a later conversation. In Wales the NHS door is your GP, and CALL is free on 0800 132 737.
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 Newport
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Newport, you can access NHS psychological therapies through your GP or local primary mental health support service. You can find support through the CALL Mental Health Helpline for Wales, free and confidential on 0800 132 737.
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 press 2 for urgent mental health support. The CALL Helpline for Wales is free on 0800 132 737, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Newport questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Newport: common questions
How do I tell whether counselling is what I need?
A useful test is duration and cost. If something has been bothering you most days for more than a month, or it is affecting sleep, work or the people around you, it is worth an hour. You do not have to justify booking, and the first call is free.
What are the session fees?
An hour of counselling is £80. Longer options exist at £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, though they are seldom needed for this kind of work. Nothing is charged for the initial 15-minute conversation, whatever you decide afterwards.
What is the NHS route in Newport?
Your GP surgery. In Wales the practice refers you on to the local primary mental health support service, rather than you completing a self-referral yourself. Newport Mind is another local option, and CALL answers free and confidentially on 0800 132 737 at difficult moments.
Would psychotherapy suit me better than this?
Only if the trouble is long-standing. Psychotherapy works over months and years on patterns laid down in early life. What is on this page is shorter, present-centred, and designed for people who cannot yet say what the matter is. Starting here rules nothing out later.
I only want a few sessions to get through one specific thing. Is that allowed?
It is, and it is a perfectly sensible way to use counselling. Some people come for four or five sessions around a decision, a loss or a difficult stretch at work, and then stop. Nobody will try to talk you into more than you came for.
Will anyone in Newport know I'm having counselling?
No. Sessions are private and held by secure video, so there is no local waiting room and no one need see you attending. Everything stays confidential between us, and you take part from wherever feels safe and private to you.
How quickly can I begin counselling if I am based in Newport?
Generally within a week or two. My practice is in Hove, so I do not see people in Newport in person, but I work across the city by secure video. A free 15-minute consultation lets us talk first, then we book your first full session.
How much does counselling cost compared with waiting for NHS help in Newport?
Sessions are £80 an hour, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS talking therapies through Aneurin Bevan often carry a waiting list, so paying privately means you can start online without delay.
Does online counselling work as well as being in a room in Newport?
For most people, yes. Whether you are in Maindee, Caerleon or Rogerstone, all you need is a private space and a reliable connection. Meeting by secure video from home often feels more private and far less of an upheaval than a trip across town.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Newport, 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 Wales: Cardiff, Cwmbran, Pontypridd. See all of Wales.
Close to this in Newport, there is 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.
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.