Online Depression Counselling in Durham

Durham and Darlington Talking Therapies covers the area and you refer yourself, which avoids waiting for a GP appointment just to be pointed onwards. A GP is still the right person if you want to discuss medication, or if your physical health has slipped along with your mood.

Withdrawing is one of the earliest signs of low mood and it snowballs through shame rather than laziness. We work on getting one reliable thing back before touching the rest. Your college and the university will also have their own routes, and using them is not an admission of failure.

Sessions are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, following a free 15-minute consultation. You pay individually rather than in blocks, so stopping needs no notice and no explanation. Depression work usually starts weekly and eases to fortnightly as things lift.

Not for the sessions, since they arrive wherever you are. It often changes the content. Distance from services, fewer local options and a strong tradition of not making a fuss shape how long people wait before asking, and that waiting is usually worth talking about early on.

No. Advice like that assumes a level of capacity that depression has already taken away. We work with what you can genuinely reach this week, which might be a short walk or might be answering one message, and grow it from there rather than starting with someone else's healthy routine.

Not at all, and it's more common than you'd think. A beautiful, prestigious place doesn't protect anyone from low mood, and the sense that it should can add guilt on top. Counselling gives the heaviness somewhere to go, without judgement, from your own space.

Often within a week of your free 15-minute call. When you're low, avoiding a journey into the city helps; you join by secure video from home in Gilesgate or out in the county villages. I work from Hove across Durham and we'd hold one regular weekly time.

NHS talking therapies in Durham are free and worth using; the usual trade-off is a wait and less flexibility. I charge £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, after a free consultation, and can usually start sooner with a consistent slot.

Online suits many people, especially out in the former pit villages where appointments mean a journey. Meeting by secure video from home removes that. I'm in Hove, not Durham, and can offer evening times so a session doesn't add to a heavy day.