Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Cardiff
Online Psychotherapy in Cardiff
Online psychotherapy for Cardiff, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Cardiff, from the bay and the centre to the streets around the castle, 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 Cardiff
Psychotherapy for Cardiff, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Cardiff: from the bay and the centre to Cathays, Roath, Canton and Grangetown
- Known for
- The castle, the bay and the Principality Stadium
- Region
- Wales
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Wales)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Cardiff
Why people in Cardiff get in touch
A lot of people in Cardiff are not from Cardiff. They came for a course, for work near the Senedd, or simply for a place with more going on than the town they grew up in, and then they stayed. That move can be a real escape. It can also leave a person permanently slightly out of place, performing a version of themselves in Llandaff or Pontcanna that their family would not recognise. Others have been here for generations and carry a different weight entirely. Either way, by your thirties or forties the same difficulties have usually begun to repeat: the same kind of partner, the same loss of nerve at the same point in every job.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Cardiff
CathaysRoathCantonGrangetownSplottAdamsdownButetownLlandaffWhitchurchCyncoedRiversidePontcanna
Wherever you are in Cardiff, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Cardiff
Official figures for Cardiff, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Cardiff, 13.6% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Wales average of 10.4%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Cardiff the average anxiety rating was 3.55 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3 (a higher score indicates more anxiety). Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Cardiff, 8.5% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Wales average of 6.9%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is psychotherapy, in practice?
Psychotherapy here goes a little deeper and usually a little longer than counselling, into the patterns, beliefs and early relationships that shape how you feel now, so change is understood at the root and holds.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the psychotherapy page for the methods, how sessions run and what they cost for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
How does meeting by video work in practice?
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.
Bradley is in Hove, so Cardiff work is done by video, and nothing of the depth is lost in the process. Long therapy depends on the same hour being reliably there for a long time, which is easier to protect when it does not involve crossing a city twice. People keep the work going through moves between Grangetown, Whitchurch and further out. What is worth arranging properly is privacy: a door you can close, and headphones when the house is full.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can psychotherapy in Cardiff help with?
Attachment and relationships
How early bonds still shape the way you connect now.
Identity and self-worth
Working with a harsh inner voice and a shaky sense of self.
The past in the present
When something unresolved keeps replaying beneath the surface.
Beyond symptom relief
Understanding the root, not just quieting the symptom.
Lasting change
Insight that holds, so change does not slip back.
Psychotherapy in Cardiff
Why people in Cardiff come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is for the things that have been there a long time. Low self-worth that no promotion ever touches. A sense of being fundamentally unlike other people. Anger that arrives out of proportion and leaves you ashamed for days afterwards. These rarely respond to advice, because they were not built by reasoning. They were built early, inside a family, while you were working out what you had to be in order to be loved. So the work goes there. We look at your first relationships, at what you had to do with the feelings nobody wanted, and at how those arrangements still run your adult life without ever asking permission. It is slow, often moving, and can be uncomfortable through the middle stretch. Cardiff's average anxiety rating was 3.55 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, against a Wales average of 3.3. Sessions are weekly and open-ended rather than a fixed course. NHS support runs through your GP, with Cardiff Mind also available in the city.
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 Cardiff
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Cardiff, you can access NHS psychological therapies through your GP or local primary mental health support service. You can find support through the CALL Mental Health Helpline for Wales, free and confidential on 0800 132 737.
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 press 2 for urgent mental health support. The CALL Helpline for Wales is free on 0800 132 737, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Cardiff questions
Online Psychotherapy in Cardiff: common questions
How many sessions would I be looking at?
It is measured in months and years rather than a set number. A year is a fair expectation, sometimes two, occasionally less. We review as we go, and you decide when the work is finished. There is no minimum commitment demanded at the start.
If this is open-ended, what am I signing up to pay?
The weekly hour is £80 and that is the sum to plan around; £100 buys 90 minutes and £120 buys 120 minutes when a session needs more space. Talking honestly about money in the free 15-minute consultation is sensible, and pace can be adjusted if it needs to be.
Could the NHS in Wales offer the same thing?
NHS work tends to be shorter and aimed at a current problem rather than lifelong patterns, though it helps many people. Your GP is the route in here, and can explain what the local primary mental health support service is able to provide in Cardiff at the moment.
I had counselling at university and it helped for a while. Why would a longer course of therapy do more?
Because it works at a different level. Short counselling steadies what is happening now, and does that well. If the same feeling comes back every few years wearing new circumstances, the pattern beneath it has not been touched yet, and that is what longer therapy goes after.
I moved to Cardiff partly to get away from my family. Does this mean going back over all of it?
Not by force and not immediately. Early life comes up because it explains present habits, not so that anyone can rake over old ground for its own sake. You choose what to open and when. Distance from a family often makes it safer to look, rather than harder.
How is psychotherapy different from shorter-term counselling?
Psychotherapy tends to go deeper and last longer. Rather than focusing only on a current problem, we explore the underlying patterns and earlier experiences that shape how you feel and relate today. It suits people wanting lasting change rather than a quick fix.
How soon could I start longer-term psychotherapy while living in Cardiff?
We can usually begin within a week or two. Psychotherapy is deeper, ongoing work, so we start with a free 15-minute consultation to see if it fits. I work with people right across Cardiff by secure video, with no local waiting list to hold things up.
What does ongoing psychotherapy cost compared with NHS provision in Wales?
Each session is £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 or £120 for 120, following a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Wales rarely offers open-ended psychotherapy without a long wait, so private online sessions give you deeper, sustained work that can begin straight away.
Can deeper psychotherapy be done well over video from home in Cardiff?
Yes. Many people find the depth of psychotherapy is if anything easier from a familiar room than a clinic. Working by secure video, I see people weekly across Cardiff, and I can offer evening slots so sessions fit around study or work in the city.
Online Psychotherapy in Cardiff, 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 Wales: Newport, Barry, Pontypridd. See all of Wales.
Related work in Cardiff: counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
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Closer to the Sussex coast? The same psychotherapy is available in person, in Brighton, or see every area I cover.