Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Swansea
Online Counselling and Therapy in Swansea
Online counselling and therapy for Swansea, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Swansea, from the centre and the marina to the streets around the bay, 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 Swansea
Counselling and Therapy for Swansea, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Swansea: from the centre and the marina to Uplands, Sketty and Morriston
- Known for
- The bay, the marina and the Gower beyond
- 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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea get in touch
Swansea University brings a great many people to the Singleton and Bay campuses, and every autumn some of them find that a beautiful setting fixes nothing they arrived carrying. The same holds for people who have lived here all along. In Swansea the average anxiety rating was 3.46 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3. That does not describe a city in crisis. It describes something more ordinary: a background hum of worry carried through the week in Townhill and Uplands and Mumbles alike, which most people never mention to anybody because it has never quite reached the standard of a real problem.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Swansea
UplandsSkettyMorristonMumblesBrynmillTownhillSt ThomasLandoreGorseinonClydachKillayBonymaen
Wherever you are in Swansea, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Swansea
Official figures for Swansea, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Swansea the average anxiety rating was 3.46 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above 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 Swansea, 9.4% 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 Swansea, 5.5% 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 actually happens 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.
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 the main counselling and therapy page, alongside how I work, sessions and fees and qualifications, registration and ethics.
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.
There is no Swansea premises; Bradley sees everyone from Hove by secure video. That makes a first course of counselling straightforward to arrange whether you are on campus, at work, or at home with small children. Everything opens with a free 15-minute call, and no obligation follows from it. If you go ahead, sessions are weekly at a time you choose and can be moved when timetables or shifts change. A quiet half hour either side helps.
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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea come for counselling and therapy
Counselling and therapy here is the general entry point, and that is deliberate. Some people can name their difficulty in a single sentence. Others know only that something has gone wrong with the way they feel, and have been putting off doing anything because they cannot justify it to themselves. Either is welcome. The early sessions go on building a description: how the days actually run, what makes it worse, what you have quietly given up on. Once a thing has a shape, you can start working on it, and that in itself is often a considerable relief. The work is present-focused and generally short to medium term, a few months at most for a good many people. If the roots do turn out to run a long way back, that is a conversation for later. In Wales, NHS support begins at your GP, and Swansea Mind is active in the city.
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 Swansea
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Swansea, 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.
Swansea questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Swansea: common questions
What if I book and then cannot explain myself?
That happens often and it is not a wasted hour. Speaking about something vague is a skill most people have had no practice at. The sessions are paced for that, and the words tend to arrive once there is somebody listening who is not going to interrupt.
How much is a session?
An hour is £80. There are longer appointments at £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, though the hour covers most of this work comfortably. The initial 15-minute consultation is free and there is no expectation that you book afterwards.
Where do I go if I would rather use the NHS?
To your GP surgery in Swansea. In Wales the practice makes the referral into local mental health support, and there is no self-referral form of the sort England uses. Plenty of people ask their GP and begin private sessions while they wait to be seen.
Is psychotherapy a better fit than counselling for me?
It depends on how old the trouble is. Counselling handles what is happening now and takes weeks or months. Psychotherapy takes a year or more and works on patterns laid down long ago. If you are unsure which you need, this shorter work is the sensible first move.
Everyone tells me to get out and walk on the Gower. Do I really need counselling?
Walking genuinely helps and it is worth doing. It tends not to touch the thing underneath, though, which is why it can feel better for an afternoon and no different by Monday. Counselling works on what the walking is providing relief from.
Is online counselling as effective as meeting in person?
For most people, yes. Research and experience both suggest working by video can be just as helpful as face-to-face counselling. What matters most is the relationship between us, and that builds well online, from wherever you are in Swansea.
How quickly can I start counselling if I live in Swansea?
Generally within a week or two. My practice is in Hove, so I do not meet people in Swansea face to face, but I work across the city and Gower by secure video. A free 15-minute consultation lets us talk first before booking your first full session.
How much is counselling, and how does it compare with waiting for NHS help locally?
Sessions are £80 an hour, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS talking therapies through Swansea Bay can carry a waiting list, so paying privately lets you start online now instead of joining a queue.
Does online counselling work as well from out on Gower or in the valleys?
For most people, yes. Wherever you live in relation to Swansea, in Mumbles, Sketty or Morriston, all you need is a private space and a steady connection. Meeting by secure video removes the drive and often feels easier than travelling into the city for an appointment.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Swansea, 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: Neath, Llanelli, Cardiff. See all of Wales.
Close to this in Swansea, 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 Brighton as well as online; see the full list of areas.