Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Torquay
Online Counselling and Therapy in Torquay
Online counselling and therapy for Torquay, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Torquay, from the harbour and seafront to the streets around the English Riviera, 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 Torquay
Counselling and Therapy for Torquay, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Torquay: from the harbour and seafront to Babbacombe, St Marychurch and Chelston
- Known for
- The harbour, the seafront and the English Riviera
- Region
- South West (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- TALKWORKS, Devon's NHS Talking Therapies service
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Torquay
Why people in Torquay get in touch
The bay looks its best when you feel your worst. Torquay is built to be enjoyed, and being flat in a place full of people on holiday adds a layer of embarrassment to whatever else is going on. Work here is often seasonal and insecure, so a bad winter is financial as well as personal. You get up, you get through it, and it has been a while now since anything felt good. Around Watcombe and Babbacombe that description fits a great many people who would never call themselves unwell. There is no need to name it before speaking to someone.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Torquay
BabbacombeSt MarychurchChelstonEllacombeWellswoodCockingtonShiphayTorreWatcombe
Wherever you are in Torquay, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Torquay
Official figures for Torquay, for context rather than as a description of you.
27.4% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 16.1% 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 201.3 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 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.
Rather than say the same thing on every page, the substance lives on everything on counselling and therapy, with the practical side for the practical questions and my credentials and registration for registration and ethics.
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.
Torquay is an online location. Bradley sees people from Hove, so a first conversation is a free 15-minute video call from wherever you are, with no bus into town and no reception to sit in. Weekly hour-long sessions follow if you want them, and they can be arranged around a split shift, a hospital rota or childcare. Trying one session and deciding against it is a perfectly reasonable outcome.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can counselling and therapy in Torquay 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 Torquay
Why people in Torquay come for counselling and therapy
Begin here if you have no name for what is wrong. There is no diagnosis to bring and no crisis you need to have reached. The early work looks at the ordinary evidence of your week, the parts you dread, the things that used to be enjoyable and have quietly gone. Saying all of it once, out loud, to someone unconnected does more than people expect. Recorded depression covered 16.1% of adult patients on GP registers in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%, and in an area with this much seasonal insecurity that figure is not surprising. The work stays in the present and often runs six to twelve sessions rather than years. TALKWORKS, the NHS Talking Therapies service across Devon, is free and takes self-referrals, with Devon Mind alongside.
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 Torquay
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Torquay, you can refer yourself directly to TALKWORKS, Devon's NHS Talking Therapies service 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.
Torquay questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Torquay: common questions
There is no particular event I can point to. Can I still come?
Yes. Very few people arrive with an event to point at. Most describe a long stretch of feeling worse than they used to, which is precisely what this kind of counselling is for. Waiting until something worse happens helps nobody.
What do sessions cost, and can I pay one at a time?
You pay session by session, with nothing booked in blocks. The hourly rate is £80, rising to £100 for ninety minutes and £120 for two hours. Most people at this stage use the hour. The 15-minute consultation that comes first is free and commits you to nothing.
Which NHS service covers Torquay?
TALKWORKS is the NHS Talking Therapies provider for Devon. You can refer yourself in England without a GP appointment and it costs nothing. Devon Mind offers local support as well, which some people use while a referral is being processed.
Is this different from the psychotherapy listed here?
It is much shorter and stays with the present. Psychotherapy goes back into early life and long-standing patterns, and it runs for months or longer. Many people find this shorter work does what they needed and never go on to the other.
My income disappears in winter. What happens to the fees then?
The rate stays the same, but the rhythm does not have to. Some people go weekly through the earning months and fortnightly afterwards, or take a planned pause. Saying so at the start is far better than quietly stopping when money gets tight.
The bay can feel isolating in winter. Can regular counselling help?
It can. A steady, confidential conversation offers a fixed point through the long off-season, whatever else is changing. Sessions are held by secure video from home. The counselling room is in Hove, on the Sussex coast, so Torquay is served online.
How quickly can I start online counselling in Torquay?
There is no local waiting list, so most people in Torquay start within a week or two of getting in touch. We begin with a free 15-minute call, then book a first full session. Everything runs by secure video, with the room itself in Hove near St Marychurch.
How much is counselling in Torquay, and can I get it through the NHS?
This is a private practice, so sessions are self funded rather than through the NHS. A 60-minute session is £80, 90 minutes is £100 and 120 minutes is £120, and the first 15-minute consultation is free. People in Torquay can also seek NHS Talking Therapies in Torbay via their GP if they prefer.
Is counselling in Torquay delivered online, and are evening times available?
All sessions are held online by secure video, so you can meet from anywhere private in Torquay, whether that is home in Babbacombe or a quiet room near work. Some evening slots suit hospitality and tourism workers on the English Riviera working through the day. In-person visits only suit those able to travel to the Hove room.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Torquay, 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 South West: Exeter, Plymouth. See all of South West.
Close to this in Torquay, there is anxiety counselling, depression counselling and psychotherapy.
There is more on this in my writing: how change actually sticks and where to start when you cannot name it.
For anyone near the coast, the same counselling and therapy runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.