Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Derry
Online Psychotherapy in Derry
Online psychotherapy for Derry, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Derry, from within the walls and the centre to the streets around the Peace Bridge, 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 Derry
Psychotherapy for Derry, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Derry: from within the walls and the centre to the Bogside, the Waterside and Creggan
- Known for
- The city walls, the Peace Bridge and the river Foyle
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Northern Ireland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Derry
What brings people in Derry to counselling?
Ask people in Derry about their childhood and a lot of them will say it was grand, everybody was in the same boat. Underneath that, the north-west carries a history that came through front doors, and the households of the time often coped by keeping feeling out of the room. Children learn what to do with fear by watching adults do something with it, and where the adults said nothing, the lesson was silence. Decades on that shows as difficulty asking for anything, as bracing for the worst when life is calm, as choosing partners who cannot quite be reached. People from Rosemount to Culmore who have already had a few months of counselling recognise the pattern returning.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Derry
BogsideWatersideCregganBishop StreetRosemountCulmoreShantallowthe DiamondBallymagroarty
Wherever you are in Derry, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Derry
Official figures for Derry, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Derry City and Strabane, 10.8% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Northern Ireland average of 8.2%, 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 Derry City and Strabane, 28.0% of adults reported a high anxiety score (6 or above out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well above the Northern Ireland average of 19.0%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Derry City and Strabane, 7.7% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Northern Ireland average of 5.2%, 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 actually happens in psychotherapy?
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.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the full psychotherapy page explains it properly, how I work answers the practical questions, and my credentials and registration shows how the practice is held to account.
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.
Depth needs a reliable hour, week after week, and video protects that better than travel does. Bradley works from Hove and holds the same slot for as long as the work runs, at £80 / 60 min or £100 / 90 min where more time is wanted. The free 15-minute consultation opens it. Because this is measured in seasons rather than weeks, keeping the hour through a change of job or a move matters far more than the setting ever does.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does psychotherapy 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 Derry
Why people in Derry come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy here is for what repeats. The same collapse whenever someone gets close, the same conviction that you are a burden, the same anger arriving faster than you can think. Instead of managing the surface, we trace where it was learned: what your family did with distress, who you had to become to be safe, what was never allowed to be said. In this city that sometimes means looking at inheritance honestly, at watchfulness passed down a family line without anyone intending to hand it on. It is done soberly, at your pace, with no politics in it and no sides taken. Expect open-ended work running a year or more. Health and Social Care remains open to you through your GP throughout, Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000, and Inspire Wellbeing provides support elsewhere in the meantime.
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 Derry
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Derry, your GP can refer you to talking therapies and counselling through Health and Social Care. You can find support through Lifeline, Northern Ireland's crisis helpline, free on 0808 808 8000.
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 Lifeline free on 0808 808 8000. Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Derry questions
Online Psychotherapy in Derry: common questions
Counselling helped for a while and then it all came back. Why?
Shorter work steadies the present. It does not always reach whatever keeps producing the same result. Psychotherapy goes after the pattern itself, in attachment and early relationships, which is slower and more demanding. Most people arrive here having tried the briefer option first, which is a sensible order.
Should family history from those years come into it at all?
Only where it shaped how a home handled fear. The focus is never political and never about who was right. It is about what a child in that house learned to do with distress, and how that learning still organises adult relationships now, often without being noticed.
How long, and what will I be paying?
Open-ended usually means a year or more, reviewed together as it goes. Fees are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, session by session rather than a package bought up front. The free 15-minute consultation is a fair way to test whether this depth is what you want.
Is anything like this available through Health and Social Care?
Your GP can refer you to talking therapies through Health and Social Care, though what is offered tends to be shorter-term and waits vary across the region. Lifeline is free on 0808 808 8000 in a crisis, and AWARE NI groups can run alongside longer therapy rather than instead of it.
Can work this deep really be done down a video call?
It can, and the steadiness helps more than people expect. Nothing is missed because of a cancelled bus or a wet evening walk in from Ballymagroarty, and a good many people find they reach the hard material sooner in their own chair than in an unfamiliar building.
I think my difficulties go back a long way; can that be worked with online?
Yes. Psychotherapy explores those deeper, longer-held roots at a gentle pace, and it works well by secure video. From home in Derry you can do this steady work over time. Bradley is based in Hove and works UK-wide by video, so nothing depends on travelling.
How do I begin deeper psychotherapy in Derry?
You start with a free 15-minute consultation, then your first full session, usually within a week or two. Psychotherapy is longer-term work held online by secure video, so you can commit to regular sessions from home in Derry rather than travelling to Belfast each week.
Is paying for psychotherapy worth it when the north-west has NHS services?
NHS psychological therapy in Derry is free but often shorter and waited-for. Private psychotherapy, at £80 an hour or £100 to £120 for longer sessions, gives open-ended, consistent work with one counsellor, which deep difficulties usually need. A free 15-minute call helps you weigh it up.
Does long-term psychotherapy work online from Derry?
Yes. Regular video sessions build the same lasting relationship as in-person work, and you never lose time driving to Belfast. From a quiet room anywhere in Derry, with evening slots available, ongoing therapy can fit steadily around work and family life on either side of the Foyle.
Online Psychotherapy in Derry, 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 Northern Ireland: Lisburn, Craigavon. See all of Northern Ireland.
Close to this in Derry, there is counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: dislocation and the modern world.
Within reach of Sussex? psychotherapy is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.