Online Depression Counselling in Plymouth

That the experience is common in this city. The figure covers patients aged 18+ on GP registers in 2024/25, against 14.3% nationally, and it makes no prediction about any individual. Its practical value is simply this: nobody here has grounds to treat what you are describing as unusual.

It is. NHS Talking Therapies Plymouth, or Plymouth Options, takes self-referrals in England with no GP letter needed and no charge. Where sleep, appetite or safety have deteriorated, speak to your GP too. Running the NHS route and private counselling at once is entirely normal and creates no conflict.

There is no course to be tied into. Sixty minutes is £80, ninety minutes £100 and two hours £120, arranged one at a time. With low mood a shorter regular appointment generally does more than an occasional long one. The opening 15-minute conversation costs nothing at all.

It might well be, and it is worth taking seriously either way. Leaving a structured life for one you have to build yourself removes routine, purpose and company all at once, and low mood often arrives some months later. We would look at what has gone, what can be replaced, and in what order.

Somewhere very small indeed. Not a plan for your life, but one specific thing for the coming week that is achievable on a bad day. Meaning tends to return after activity rather than before it. If you are having thoughts of ending your life, tell your GP, and Samaritans answer at any hour.

It does. There is no journey down the line to make, so support is there whatever the distance, and the isolation itself is something we can talk through. Sessions are held online by secure video. The room is in Hove.

Depression counselling for Plymouth runs online wherever you are, so low energy never means a long journey up-country. Following a free 15-minute consultation, we can usually start secure video sessions within a week. The room itself is in Hove, on the Sussex coast, and Plymouth is served online.

For depression, the Plymouth NHS Talking Therapies service is free by self-referral but can carry a wait. Working privately, I charge £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120 minutes, with a free 15-minute consultation first. You may use both routes together.

When depression makes travel feel impossible, the remoteness of Plymouth stops mattering online. We speak by secure video from home, with evening times where possible. Sessions are confidential, with nothing going through the base. In-person appointments suit only those able to travel to the Sussex coast.