Online Psychotherapy in Aberdeen

Counselling works on the present and finishes when the present is steadier. Psychotherapy keeps going into what set the pattern up: family, early attachment, the beliefs about yourself you have never really tested. It is slower on purpose. It is usually chosen by someone who has already had a shorter piece of work that helped and then wore off.

Longer than most people expect. A year is common and two is not unusual, at one session a week. No contract holds you and you can stop whenever you choose, but the useful material tends to surface once the work has become familiar, rather than in the first month of it.

One hour a week at £80 is the usual pattern. Some people take 90 minutes at £100 while working on something heavy, and 120 minutes at £120 exists for occasional longer sittings. The free 15-minute consultation comes first, before any of that is settled. You pay as you go, and breaks for holidays or a rota are entirely normal.

NHS psychological therapies are reached through your GP and tend to be shorter and more structured than open-ended psychotherapy, though what is offered varies by service and by wait. It is worth asking what your practice can refer into. NHS inform explains the options, and Breathing Space on 0800 83 85 87 covers the difficult evenings.

They need not. You can keep the weekly slot and join from wherever the rota has put you, or pause for the trip and pick up on your return. What matters for depth is that the work resumes with the same person, and that we look at the leaving and returning rather than treating it as lost time.

Coping alone is often exactly what brings people to this work. Psychotherapy gives space to understand the habits that once protected you but now leave you isolated. There is no pressure to open up faster than feels safe; it unfolds at your own pace.

Usually within a week or two. After a free 15-minute consultation we agree a regular weekly slot for longer-term work, all by secure video. There is no NHS Grampian referral to wait for and no clinic in the city, so deeper work can start on your own timing.

That is your decision. Fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free first consultation. NHS Grampian offers limited long-term psychotherapy and often a wait, so private online work gives Aberdeen clients depth, continuity and a sooner start.

Yes. Longer-term work depends on trust and consistency far more than on sharing a room, and both build well over secure video. From your own space in Rosemount, Torry or anywhere in Aberdeen, weekly sessions provide the steady, private setting deeper therapy needs, whatever your rota.