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Online Depression Counselling · Inverness
Online Depression Counselling in Inverness
Online depression counselling for Inverness, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Inverness, from the centre and the castle to the streets around the river Ness, 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 Inverness
Depression Counselling for Inverness, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Inverness: from the centre and the castle to Crown, Hilton and Inshes
- Known for
- The castle, the river Ness and the Highlands beyond
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Inverness
Why people in Inverness get in touch
The Highland winter is long in a way people outside it underestimate. The light barely gets going in December, the visitors have gone, and the seasonal work that filled the summer has stopped. Low mood settles into that gap and is easily mistaken for the weather. In Merkinch or Dalneigh you can go days without an unplanned conversation, and if your family is scattered across the region the nearest one may be an hour's drive away. You keep the essentials moving and quietly let the rest go: the walk along the Caledonian Canal, the phone calls, the meals worth cooking. Then spring comes and you cannot explain why it did not lift.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Inverness
CrownHiltonInshesMerkinchDalneighCullodenSmithtonRaigmoreWesthill
Wherever you are in Inverness, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Inverness
Official figures for Inverness, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 4.9% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 9.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 3.0% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 6.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What does depression counselling involve?
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.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: everything on depression counselling sets out the methods, how I work, sessions and fees covers the practicalities, and my BACP registration covers accountability.
What do I need for an online session?
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.
Everything here is delivered online by secure video, since Bradley works from Hove and there is no room in the Highlands to attend. When your energy is gone, a session that requires no drive and no weather forecast is often the only version that actually happens. The fixed weekly hour gives an unshaped week something to hold on to. People take sessions from a bedroom, a kitchen table or a parked car, and none of that is unusual.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does depression counselling address?
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 Inverness
Why people in Inverness come for depression counselling
Depression usually arrives as things quietly stopping rather than as a crisis. The replies, the cooking, the plans, and eventually the interest in your own week. Where winters are dark and distances are long, that fading gets attributed to the season for years at a time. The counselling is steady, structured and paced for a flat week. We begin with what your days genuinely contain, then put back small pieces that are realistically achievable, on the understanding that energy follows the doing rather than preceding it. We also look at what has been lost and at the voice that calls this being soft. Drinking often keeps company with low mood and deepens it: across the Highland council area, the age-standardised alcohol-specific death rate averaged 22.6 per 100,000 over 2020-2024, a little above the Scotland average of 21.9, on National Records of Scotland data. A GP referral opens NHS psychological therapies, Mikeysline offers Highland support, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 Inverness
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Inverness, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and you can find trusted self-help through NHS inform. You can find support through NHS inform; for confidential listening support, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Inverness questions
Online Depression Counselling in Inverness: common questions
Winter takes me down every year without fail. Is that workable?
It is, and knowing the pattern in advance is a real advantage. When the light, the work and the company all disappear together, mood follows. We build anchors into the dark months deliberately rather than waiting each year to see how far it goes.
What do sessions cost from up here?
The same as anywhere: £80 for an hour, £100 for ninety minutes and £120 for two hours, with no travel charge and no premium for distance. The consultation at the start lasts 15 minutes and is free, and you are not asked to commit to a block.
Is my GP still worth seeing if I am doing this?
Usually, yes. The GP is the way into NHS psychological therapies in Scotland and the person to raise sleep, appetite or medication with. Many people do both. Mikeysline also provides Highland mental health support, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
I live well outside Inverness. Does that make any difference?
None to the work. The session comes to you, which is the main advantage of doing it this way in a region this size. What does matter is isolation itself, and that is something we look at directly rather than treating it as background.
I cannot say why I feel like this. Is that a problem?
Not at all. A lot of people arrive with no explanation and feel they are wasting your time. Depression does not need a cause to be genuine, and clarity usually comes later, once a little energy has returned and the fog has thinned.
The isolation up here makes everything feel worse, can talking online really reach that?
It can. The point of online work is precisely that distance and isolation stop being barriers. A regular, confidential hour by video brings steady support right into your home in the Highlands, so the remoteness that often deepens low mood does not also keep help out of reach.
How quickly can depression counselling begin in Inverness?
Often within a week of a free 15-minute consultation, with no waiting list and no journey into the city. When depression is heavy through the long Highland winter, being able to start from your own home in Hilton or a nearby glen makes a real difference.
Is private depression counselling worth it against the Highland wait?
That is your choice. NHS Highland is free but its vast, thinly populated area means waits and long travel. I charge £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation, with sessions reaching you at home.
Does online depression counselling help with rural isolation near Inverness?
Yes. Highland life can be isolating, with a neighbour miles away and the winter dark weighing heavily. Secure video sessions, evenings included, bring a steady, confidential hour to your own home in Inverness or the glens, with no long, dark drive to manage.
Online Depression Counselling in Inverness, 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 Scotland: Aberdeen, Perth. See all of Scotland.
If depression counselling is not quite what you are looking for, anxiety counselling, counselling and therapy and psychotherapy may fit better in Inverness.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about small repeated steps and a solution-focused exercise.
For anyone near the coast, the same depression counselling runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.