Anxiety and worry
When your mind will not settle and everything feels urgent.
Online Counselling and Therapy · Woking
Online Counselling and Therapy in Woking
Online counselling and therapy for Woking, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Woking, from the town centre and Horsell to the streets around the canal, 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 Woking
Counselling and Therapy for Woking, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Woking: from the town centre and Horsell to Knaphill, Goldsworth Park and Sheerwater
- Known for
- The canal, Horsell Common and the centre
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Mind Matters Surrey
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Woking
What brings people in Woking to counselling?
It rarely arrives as a single moment. The pace simply carries on, the trains keep running, and gradually you notice that you are less patient than you were, that sleep has become unreliable, and that the things that used to lift you no longer do much. Ask what is wrong and there is no answer available. There was no bereavement, no crisis, nothing that would justify the fuss. Around Maybury and Old Woking there are a great many people in the same position, functioning perfectly well and telling nobody about it. That is precisely what keeps people in this town going for another year before they say anything, and it is also the most ordinary reason to book a first session.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Woking
HorsellKnaphillGoldsworth ParkSheerwaterSt John'sMayburyOld WokingByfleetMount Hermon
Wherever you are in Woking, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Woking
Official figures for Woking, for context rather than as a description of you.
27.3% 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 13% 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 94.2 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 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.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see everything on counselling and therapy for the methods, how I work, sessions and fees for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
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.
Sessions are held online by secure video from wherever you can be undisturbed, since Bradley is in Hove and there is no consulting space here to attend. In a place where the day already contains two long journeys, that removes the practical objection entirely. It starts with a free 15-minute conversation, which plenty of people take on the train home or during a lunch break, and there is no expectation of booking anything after it.
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 Woking
Why people in Woking come for counselling and therapy
This is where to begin when you cannot yet name the difficulty. The work stays with the present and is shorter than long-term therapy: what these last months have genuinely been like, what is consuming the energy, and what you would want to be different by the autumn. Six to twelve weekly sessions covers it for most people who start this way, and no diagnosis is needed first. Locally, 27.3% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%, which is well over a quarter of the adult population and considerably more than most people here would guess. Mind Matters Surrey, the free NHS talking therapies service, takes self-referrals without a GP letter, and Woking Mind runs groups and wellbeing support in the town.
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 Woking
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Woking, you can refer yourself directly to Mind Matters Surrey 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.
Woking questions
Online Counselling and Therapy in Woking: common questions
Must I know what is wrong before the first session?
No, and most people do not. Turning up able to say only that something has shifted is a workable starting point, and putting the vague version into words is often the first useful thing that happens. Nothing has to be prepared or organised in advance.
What does this cost if I only want a short course?
Each hour is £80, with £100 for ninety minutes and £120 for two, and the 15-minute consultation before any of them is free. Payment happens session by session and nothing further ahead is booked, so a course of six or eight is entirely straightforward.
Is Mind Matters Surrey worth trying at the same time?
It is, and doing both is common. Referring yourself takes a form rather than a GP appointment and costs nothing, and the courses on offer are structured and time-limited. Starting privately while a referral is in progress means you are not simply waiting.
I spend two hours a day commuting. Could sessions happen from the train?
In practice no, because you need privacy and a stable connection, and neither is reliable on a busy service. Most people book for once they are home or before they leave. Removing the journey to the session is usually enough to make the hour possible.
Everyone I know lives at this pace. Why am I the one struggling?
Because a pace that is normal for a town is not automatically sustainable for a person, and what it costs depends on everything else you are carrying. Nobody advertises the parts that are not working. The commonness of it says nothing about your own limits.
I get back from Waterloo late most nights. When could sessions happen?
With no journey to the session itself, we can book a time that works after you are home, or on a work-from-home day. That flexibility is exactly why online counselling suits Woking's commuters, and holding a regular slot keeps it a dependable fixed point in a busy week.
How quickly can counselling begin online in Woking?
Generally within days. With no waiting list, a free 15-minute consultation is usually followed by a first session that same week. It is held securely online, joined from home in Sheerwater or near Horsell Common, so a life bookended by the Waterloo train need not lose another hour to travel.
How do the fees work versus the NHS in Woking?
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 mean waiting, while private counselling with Bradley starts sooner and holds a steady weekly time.
The relentless London-facing pace wears at me. Can online counselling fit around it?
Yes. When long days and time away from home wear at wellbeing without any single dramatic moment, online sessions ask nothing of your commute. Joined from home with evening times available, they offer a confidential hour that stays put even when the timetable does not.
Online Counselling and Therapy in Woking, 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: Guildford, London. See all of London & South East.
People who come for counselling and therapy in Woking often also look at 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.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Brighton — all in-person areas are listed here.