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Online Depression Counselling · Hastings
Online Depression Counselling in Hastings
Online depression counselling for Hastings, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Hastings, from the Old Town and the Stade to the streets around the fishing beach, 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 Hastings
Depression Counselling for Hastings, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Hastings: from the Old Town and the Stade to St Leonards, Ore and Silverhill
- Known for
- The Old Town, the fishing beach and the cliffs
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Health in Mind, the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Hastings
Why do people in Hastings reach out?
Winter here is long, and the town empties in a way that is hard to describe to anybody who has not sat through it. Work in a seasonal economy thins out, the light goes early, and the distance from bigger places starts to feel like a fact about your life rather than about geography. Depression appeared on GP registers for 17.4% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, against 14.3% for England. Hastings has real character and real contrast, and both are true at once: an independent, creative town where somebody in Silverhill or Clive Vale can go a fortnight without a proper conversation.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Hastings
Old TownSt LeonardsOreSilverhillHollingtonBohemiaWest HillClive ValeCentral St Leonards
Wherever you are in Hastings, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Hastings
Official figures for Hastings, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 17.4% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
Reviewed June 2026.
What would we do together in depression counselling?
Depression counselling here is steady and structured: we focus on the low mood, lost motivation and disconnection affecting you now, and on rebuilding the energy, routine and self-worth that hold a day together.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see depression counselling in detail for the methods, how I work for fees and session lengths, and my credentials and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
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.
Because Bradley is in Hove, work with people in Hastings is done online over secure video. With depression that is more than convenience. Travel costs money and energy, and both tend to be in short supply exactly when the appointment matters most. A session requiring neither is one you can still make on a bad week. It also means the counselling does not stop when the trains do.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can depression counselling in Hastings help with?
Lost motivation
Help with drive, focus and finishing tasks.
Isolation
Support for withdrawal and feeling numb.
Energy and routine
Rebuilding the rhythms that hold a day together.
Self-worth
Gently challenging a harsh inner voice.
Reconnection
Finding your way back to the parts of life that feel distant.
Depression Counselling in Hastings
Why people in Hastings come for depression counselling
Depression is very good at looking like circumstances. When work is scarce and the winter is long, it is easy to conclude that anyone would feel like this and that nothing can be done. Circumstances make it more likely; they do not put it beyond the reach of counselling. The distinguishing feature is that the flatness stays even when something good happens, and that things you would normally enjoy stop registering at all. This counselling is deliberate and paced. Sleep first, then a small amount of activity returned to the week in an order that is genuinely doable, then a proper look at the beliefs dismissing every attempt in advance. Self-referral to Health in Mind, the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service, is open for low mood, and your GP is the person to speak to about medication if that becomes relevant.
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 Hastings
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Hastings, you can refer yourself directly to Health in Mind, the East Sussex 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.
Hastings questions
Online Depression Counselling in Hastings: common questions
Everyone I know is struggling. Is it self-indulgent to get counselling for this?
No. Hard times being widespread does not make your own state less real, and a common problem is still a problem. If low mood has changed how you sleep, how you eat and how you are with people, that deserves attention regardless of how many others are in the same position.
Can I do this if money is genuinely tight?
Be honest with yourself about that before starting. Sessions are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, paid one at a time, and there is no obligation to come weekly or to continue. Some people use a small number of appointments to get moving again.
What does Health in Mind do for depression?
It is the NHS Talking Therapies service for East Sussex and it takes self-referrals for low mood with no GP letter needed, running structured courses as well as individual work. Waiting times vary. Your GP stays the right person for any conversation about medication.
I have stopped going out and the seafront is five minutes away. Why can I not just walk?
Because depression takes the thing that makes ordinary actions happen, which is motivation rather than willpower, and it takes that first. Proximity has nothing to do with it. Movement usually gets rebuilt in far smaller steps than a walk along the front to begin with.
Does online counselling work if my internet is unreliable?
Usually, and there are ways round it. Turning the video off lowers what the connection has to carry, and a phone call is a workable fallback if things keep dropping out. It is worth testing during the free 15-minute conversation before anything gets arranged.
The winters here drag and money is tight. Could that be why I feel so low?
It certainly can. Insecure seasonal work and long, quiet winters both weigh on mood, and in Hastings they often go together. Counselling gives you a space to talk it through openly, held online with no travel costs, so support is easy to keep up.
How quickly can I begin depression counselling online in Hastings?
Often within a few days of your free consultation. Seeing Bradley online means no journey into town to a clinic when energy is low, whether you are in Silverhill, St Leonards or the Old Town. With depression, that lower hurdle helps.
How much does depression counselling cost, and is NHS help available in Hastings?
Fees are £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours, after a free fifteen-minute consultation. Health in Mind, the East Sussex NHS Talking Therapies service, is free to self-refer to, but waits can build, so private sessions let you begin sooner.
Online or in person for depression in Hastings, and do you offer evenings?
When low mood makes leaving home hard, online removes that step for Hastings clients. Bradley keeps some evening appointments around irregular working hours, and the Hove room is a coastal train ride away if in-person work would suit you.
Online Depression Counselling in Hastings, 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: Eastbourne. See all of London & South East.
Close to this in Hastings, there is anxiety counselling, counselling and therapy and psychotherapy.
There is more on this in my writing: a solution-focused exercise and small repeated steps.
For anyone near the coast, the same depression counselling runs in person in Hove, where the room is. Every area covered is listed separately.