Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Chichester
Online Psychotherapy in Chichester
Online psychotherapy for Chichester, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Chichester, from the cathedral quarter and the city centre to the streets around the Market Cross, 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 Chichester
Psychotherapy for Chichester, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Chichester: from the cathedral quarter and the city centre to Summersdale, Whyke and nearby Bognor
- Known for
- The cathedral, the Market Cross and the harbour
- Region
- London & South East (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Chichester
What is going on for people in Chichester?
Some difficulties are older than any of the circumstances they attach themselves to. There are people in this city who have had a decent career, a solid marriage and a house in Donnington or Whyke, and who have carried the same low opinion of themselves through the whole of it. The pattern shows itself in repetition: you are always the one who accommodates, you cannot take a compliment without deflecting it, every close relationship reaches a certain distance and stops there. Retirement often exposes it, because work had been doing a good deal of the hiding. A short course of counselling may steady the week and leave whatever generates it exactly where it was.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Chichester
SummersdaleWhykeFishbourneParklandsPortfieldGraylingwellDonningtonFishbourne Road
Wherever you are in Chichester, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Chichester
Official figures for Chichester, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 14.5% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
24.5% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (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 full psychotherapy page for the methods, how sessions run and what they cost for fees and session lengths, and how to check my registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
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.
Long-term work needs to be reliable above everything else. Sessions run by secure video from Hove at the same hour each week, which is much easier to sustain across a year or two than a standing drive to another town would be. It holds through a move within West Sussex, a bereavement, a stretch of poor health or a fortnight away. In open-ended therapy the continuity from one week to the next is itself doing something, so a dependable slot is not a scheduling detail.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does psychotherapy address?
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 Chichester
Why people in Chichester come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy attends to the pattern rather than the incident. Not the argument you had on Sunday, but why that argument has a shape you recognise from twenty years ago; not this particular disappointment, but the speed with which you concluded it was your fault. We go back to your earliest relationships, to what closeness cost in the family you grew up in, and to what you had to be in order to be acceptable there. There is no honest short version of that. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm in this area ran at 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000, and distress of that kind usually has a long history behind it rather than a single cause. The work is weekly and open-ended, and we look at how it is going every few months. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies stays available for shorter structured courses alongside it.
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 Chichester
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Chichester, you can refer yourself directly to NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies 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.
Chichester questions
Online Psychotherapy in Chichester: common questions
How long does this kind of therapy go on for?
There is no set number of sessions, and it runs well beyond the length of a counselling course. A year is common and some people continue for a good while after that, and we review it every few months to check it still earns its place. You end it when you decide to, not when a course runs out.
Is psychotherapy charged differently from counselling?
No. The rates are the same throughout: £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min, £120 / 120 min. Most long-term work happens weekly at the hour. If money is becoming the reason you would stop, say so early and we can look at spacing sessions out rather than ending them suddenly.
I finished a course with NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies and it did not hold. What now?
That is one of the commonest reasons people arrive here. A structured course can settle the symptoms without touching whatever keeps producing them, and nothing you learned there is wasted. This work goes at the underlying pattern instead, which needs more room and a good deal more time.
I have retired and suddenly nothing is holding me up. Is that a therapy question?
It is a serious one. Work carries an identity as well as an income, and when it stops, whatever was underneath becomes visible. In a city with a large retired population that is a common and rarely discussed experience. We would look at what work was doing for you and what might take its place.
Can open-ended work be done properly over video?
Yes, and for long work it has practical advantages. Nothing is missed because of weather, a car that will not start or illness in the house, and the appointment survives a move. What people worry about is closeness through a screen, and in practice that tends to settle within a few sessions.
Can I begin deeper therapy later in life?
Certainly. Many people in Chichester come to this work in retirement, with the time and the wish to understand patterns that have shaped a whole life. Online sessions make it easy to commit to from home, at a steady weekly time, with complete privacy and no travelling involved.
How soon can deeper psychotherapy begin online in Chichester?
Soon, and without a waiting list. After a free 15-minute consultation we agree a regular weekly time and begin, usually within a week or two. The longer work is held securely online from home, unhurried and private, without a journey into the city for each session.
What will ongoing psychotherapy cost against the NHS?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, with 90 and 120-minute options at £100 and £120, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS therapy tends to be shorter-term and can involve a wait, whereas open-ended private work with Bradley continues for as long as it stays useful.
Independence is prized here, so asking for help feels hard. Can longer therapy still suit me?
It can, and valuing independence need not stand in the way. Longer therapy is collaborative work you shape, joined online at the same weekly time with nothing to travel to. Many self-employed and retired people in Chichester find that privacy makes the deeper work easier to begin.
Online Psychotherapy in Chichester, 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: Portsmouth, Crawley, Horsham. See all of London & South East.
Close to this in Chichester, there is counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
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Within reach of Sussex? psychotherapy is offered in the room in Brighton as well as online; see the full list of areas.