Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Oxford
Online Counselling and Therapy in Oxford
Online counselling and therapy for Oxford, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Oxford, from the city centre and Jericho to the streets around the dreaming spires, 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 Oxford
Counselling and Therapy for Oxford, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Oxford: from the city centre and Jericho to Cowley, Headington and Summertown
- Known for
- The dreaming spires, the Cherwell and the colleges
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Oxford
Why do people in Oxford reach out?
Very little in this city gives you permission to be struggling ordinarily. The architecture is impressive, the people around you are impressive, and the expectation to perform reaches students, researchers, clinicians at the John Radcliffe Hospital and staff on the line at the Mini plant at Cowley in different but comparable ways. So you keep going. The work still gets done, the emails still get answered, and privately something has flattened out that you cannot account for. There may be no event to point to at all. Many people put off getting in touch because they assume they need a proper reason first, or a name for it, and neither is true.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Oxford
JerichoCowleyHeadingtonSummertownBotleyMarstonIffleyRose HillWolvercote
Wherever you are in Oxford, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Oxford
Official figures for Oxford, for context rather than as a description of you.
18.1% 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 14.2% 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 97.3 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 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.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the full counselling and therapy page explains it properly, the practical side answers the practical questions, and my credentials and registration shows how the practice is held to account.
What happens in 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.
Sessions happen online by secure video wherever you happen to be, because Bradley is in Hove and there is nothing in the city to walk into. In a place this small and this interconnected, that privacy is not a minor detail: no waiting area, no one from your department passing the door. The free 15-minute conversation comes first and commits you to nothing. Plenty of people use it simply to find out what talking to someone would actually be like.
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 Oxford
Why people in Oxford come for counselling and therapy
This is the entry point when you cannot yet say what the problem is. It is present-focused work, shorter than long-term therapy: how the last few months have really been, what is taking the energy, what you want to be different by the end of the year. Six to twelve weekly sessions is a common shape and stopping there is a proper ending, not a failure of nerve. No label is needed. It is worth noticing that only 18.1% of adults here reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8% - a low figure in a city famous for pressure, and one that probably says as much about how readily people here admit to it. NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies is free and takes self-referrals without a GP letter, and Oxfordshire Mind runs groups and support alongside it.
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 Oxford
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Oxford, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Oxfordshire 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.
Oxford questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Oxford: common questions
I am coping. Is that too well for counselling to be appropriate?
Coping is what most people bring. Nobody has to be at breaking point to make use of an hour, and getting there earlier generally means fewer sessions rather than more. If you have been quietly running on empty for months, that is a perfectly good reason to start.
What will a short course of counselling cost me?
You pay as you go, one session at a time. Sixty minutes costs £80, ninety costs £100 and two hours costs £120, after a free 15-minute consultation. Nothing is booked beyond the next appointment, so a course of six or eight sessions is straightforward to arrange.
Is the free NHS option in Oxfordshire worth trying alongside this?
Yes, and there is no conflict in doing both. NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies accepts self-referrals directly, costs nothing, and offers structured courses. Referring yourself while you consider private work simply means you have two things running rather than waiting on one.
I am a student here. Can I keep the same counsellor outside term?
That is one of the practical advantages of working this way. The hour is not attached to the city, so it continues through the vacation and wherever you happen to be living. Work does not have to stop and restart every time the term does.
Everyone around me seems to manage the workload. Why can I not?
Because you are comparing your inside with everybody else's outside, in a place unusually good at appearing effortless. A great deal of the exhaustion in this city is entirely invisible. The fact that it is common does not mean you should keep carrying it silently.
I feel I should be coping. Is it really worth reaching out?
If you are running on empty behind a full schedule, that is exactly the point at which talking helps. Nothing needs to have reached crisis. An online session simply gives you an hour to be honest about how things are, without anyone in Oxford needing to know.
How quickly can counselling start online for someone in Oxford?
Generally within days. There is no waiting list, so a free 15-minute consultation is usually followed by a first session the same week. It is held securely online, so whether you are a student, an academic or working at the John Radcliffe, there is no journey across the city to make.
How do the fees work versus NHS therapy in Oxford?
You pay £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes or £120 for 120 minutes, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Talking Therapies is free to self-refer to but can involve a wait, while private counselling with Bradley starts sooner and keeps a steady weekly time.
I feel I should be coping. Can online counselling fit discreetly around academic life?
Yes. Nothing needs to have reached crisis to talk. An online session simply gives you a private hour to be honest, joined from your room or office with headphones, at an evening or between-lectures time, without anyone in Oxford's small world needing to know.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Oxford, 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 London & South East: Reading, Aylesbury, High Wycombe, London. See all of London & South East.
People who come for counselling and therapy in Oxford often also look at 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.
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.