Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Sheffield
Online Counselling and Therapy in Sheffield
Online counselling and therapy for Sheffield, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Sheffield, from the centre and Kelham Island to the streets around the Peak District edge, 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 Sheffield
Counselling and Therapy for Sheffield, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Sheffield: from the centre and Kelham Island to Hillsborough, Crookes, Sharrow and Gleadless
- Known for
- The Peak District edge, the steel heritage and the two universities
- Region
- Yorkshire & North East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Sheffield Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Sheffield
Why do people in Sheffield reach out?
A lot of people in Sheffield arrive at counselling with no diagnosis and no story, just a growing sense that they have gone somewhere flat. It might be a student in Broomhill who came to the University of Sheffield or Sheffield Hallam University full of intent and now cannot make themselves attend anything. It might be someone in Heeley who has been holding a family together on a wage that keeps falling behind. It might be a career going perfectly well and producing nothing but dread on a Sunday evening. None of that needs a name before you can talk about it. That is precisely what this kind of counselling is for.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Sheffield
Kelham IslandHillsboroughCrookesSharrowGleadlessEcclesallNether EdgeBroomhillWalkleyHeeleyWoodseats
Wherever you are in Sheffield, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Sheffield
Official figures for Sheffield, for context rather than as a description of you.
20.8% 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 129.3 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.
The approach does not change with the postcode, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods and what each session covers, on everything on counselling and therapy, alongside session lengths and fees and how to check my registration.
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.
Bradley works from Hove, so everything for Sheffield is online by secure video. It suits a hilly city with a slow cross-town journey: an hour of counselling costs you an hour, not three. You can take the session from a bedroom in Hillsborough or a quiet corner of a shared house in Crookes with headphones. The first 15-minute consultation is free and unhurried, and if it does not feel right you are under no obligation to book anything further.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can counselling and therapy in Sheffield 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 Sheffield
Why people in Sheffield come for counselling and therapy
Counselling here is present-focused and shorter to medium term. We start with the ordinary material of your week, sleep, energy, what you are avoiding, who you have stopped replying to, and put some shape around it. Recorded depression on Sheffield GP registers stood at 14.2% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, just below the England average of 14.3%, and a good number of people never appear in that figure because they never mention it to anyone. You need no referral to start here. NHS Sheffield Talking Therapies takes free self-referrals for anxiety and low mood and generally has a wait, and Sheffield Mind runs groups and advice across the city; starting one of those and this at the same time is common. Most people finish within a few months. If something older keeps surfacing, we can talk about longer psychotherapy when it comes up rather than committing to it now.
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 Sheffield
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Sheffield, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Sheffield 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.
Sheffield questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Sheffield: common questions
How long before I get a first session?
Normally a week or two after the free consultation. NHS Sheffield Talking Therapies is free and worth self-referring to in parallel, since there is usually a queue and having both moving means you are not simply waiting with the problem.
What are the fees and can I stop whenever I like?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, paid as you go, with a free 15-minute consultation at the start. There is no block booking and no cancellation penalty for deciding you have had enough. You choose when it ends.
I am a student here and cannot get out of bed. Is that counselling or something medical?
It can be either, so it is worth mentioning it to a doctor as well. Counselling is a good place to work out what is actually going on, and for a lot of students the answer turns out to be isolation, pressure and a course that no longer fits rather than an illness.
Do I have to know what my problem is before I book?
No, and if you did you might not need the sessions. Turning something formless into something you can describe is a large part of the early work. It is enough to be able to say that things have not been right for a while.
Is a few months really long enough to change anything?
For a great many difficulties, yes. Present-focused work over ten or twenty weeks shifts sleep, mood and the way you handle a specific situation surprisingly reliably. If it turns out the roots go much deeper, that becomes clear during the work and we discuss it.
I'm a student at one of the universities. Can you still help?
Yes. Working online means term times, placements and trips home don't interrupt things, we carry on by video wherever you are. I'm a private counsellor, separate from the university's own wellbeing service, which you're also free to use alongside this.
Can I get online counselling in Sheffield, and how soon might I start?
Yes. From my Hove base I see people right across Sheffield by secure video, whether you are near the universities, Kelham Island or out towards the Peak. After a free 15-minute call we can usually arrange your first session within a few days.
How much does counselling cost in Sheffield, and how does it compare to the NHS?
It is £80 for 60 minutes, with 90 and 120-minute sessions at £100 and £120. NHS Talking Therapies in Sheffield is free and open to self-referral, though waits vary. Working privately online simply means we can start promptly and choose a time around your week.
Do you have evening slots so I can avoid travelling into Sheffield city centre?
I do keep some evening times. Because sessions are online you join from Crookes, Walkley or wherever suits, with no bus or tram into town to plan around. We would settle on a regular weekly slot that stays the same, which makes the work easier to keep up.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Sheffield, 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: Rotherham, Barnsley, Leeds. See all of Yorkshire & North East.
Also available in Sheffield: anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
There is more on this in my writing: 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.