Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Dundee
Online Psychotherapy in Dundee
Online psychotherapy for Dundee, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Dundee, from the waterfront and the centre to the streets around the V&A, 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 Dundee
Psychotherapy for Dundee, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Dundee: from the waterfront and the centre to Lochee, Broughty Ferry and the Hilltown
- Known for
- The V&A, the Tay and the design quarter
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Dundee
What brings people in Dundee to counselling?
Some people in Dundee have already done the short piece of work. It helped. Then the same thing came back, in a new job, with a new partner, in a flat in the West End instead of the old one in Maryfield. What keeps returning is usually not the circumstance but the position you find yourself in: always the responsible one, always the one who is too much, always the one who leaves before being left. A city that has spent a long time reinventing itself knows something about how hard it is to change from the outside in. Longer therapy works the other way round.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Dundee
LocheeBroughty FerryHilltownStobswellWest EndMenzieshillMaryfieldDouglasFintry
Wherever you are in Dundee, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Dundee
Official figures for Dundee, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Dundee City, 11.6% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Scotland average of 9.1%, 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 Dundee City, 27.8% of adults reported a high anxiety score (6 or above out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Scotland average of 24.1%, 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 Dundee City, 5.3% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, in line with the Scotland average of 6.1%. 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.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: everything on psychotherapy sets out the methods, the practical side covers the practicalities, and how to check my registration covers accountability.
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.
Because this work runs for a year or more, what matters most is that it stays easy to keep. Bradley is in Hove, there is no room in Dundee, and the session simply happens wherever you are. That holds through a change of address, a placement, a winter of buses which do not turn up. The regularity of the same hour each week is part of the therapy rather than an administrative detail, and online is what protects it.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can psychotherapy in Dundee 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 Dundee
Why people in Dundee come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy here is for the pattern rather than the single bad episode. We go back into early relationships, into what a child in your family had to do to be safe or approved of, and into how that has quietly organised your adult life since. Attachment comes into it: whether closeness ever felt reliable, whether you learned to need very little from anyone. So does identity, particularly for people who have moved between very different worlds, a research post at the University of Dundee reached from a childhood in Douglas or Fintry, at home in neither. Work like this is open-ended and is often uncomfortable before it is freeing. It runs weekly and usually beyond a year. If something more immediate is needed, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, NHS inform sets out what exists, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 Dundee
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Dundee, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and you can find trusted self-help through NHS inform. You can find support through NHS inform; for confidential listening support, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Dundee questions
Online Psychotherapy in Dundee: common questions
I have already had counselling in Dundee. Why would I do this instead?
Because the question has changed. Counselling asked what is wrong now and helped you settle it. Psychotherapy asks why this keeps being the thing that goes wrong, and that means going into history, family and the beliefs formed long before the current job or partner existed.
Is a year of weekly sessions really necessary?
Not necessary, but it is what the work usually takes. Old patterns are held in place by good reasons, and those reasons only become visible slowly. You remain free to stop at any point you choose. What people describe as the turn tends to happen after several months rather than in the first few weeks.
What does that cost me over a year?
One hour a week at £80, paid as you go. There is no package and no commitment up front. Ninety minutes at £100 is available if a fortnightly rhythm suits you better, and two hours at £120 for occasional longer work. The first 15-minute consultation costs nothing at all.
Can I get long-term therapy on the NHS in Scotland?
Your GP can refer you into NHS psychological therapies, though these are commonly time-limited and the offer varies between services and areas. Ask what is available where you are registered. NHS inform explains the options, and Breathing Space, free on 0800 83 85 87, covers out-of-hours moments.
I grew up in Lochee and have moved a long way from that. Does the past matter now?
It usually does, and moving away tends to sharpen the question rather than settle it. Where you came from shapes what you expect of people, what you believe you are allowed to want, and how you read your own success. Worth understanding, rather than outrunning.
How long does psychotherapy usually take?
There is no fixed length. Because it explores longer-term patterns rather than a single problem, it tends to run longer than short-term counselling, often several months or more. We review together as we go, and you stay in control of how far the work continues.
When could deeper psychotherapy start in Dundee?
Usually within a week or two. After a free 15-minute consultation we set a regular weekly slot for longer-term work, all by secure video. There is no NHS Tayside referral in Dundee to wait for and no clinic to attend, so the deeper work can begin on your timing.
Is private psychotherapy worthwhile against NHS options in Dundee?
That is up to you. Fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free first consultation. NHS Tayside offers limited long-term psychotherapy and often a wait, so private online work gives Dundee clients continuity, depth and a sooner start.
Can psychotherapy build real depth online from Dundee?
Yes. Long-term therapy rests on trust and consistency far more than on sharing a room, and both grow well over secure video. From your own space in Stobswell, Lochee or anywhere in Dundee, weekly sessions offer the steady, private setting deeper work needs.
Online Psychotherapy in Dundee, 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 Scotland: Perth, Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy. See all of Scotland.
If psychotherapy is not quite what you are looking for, counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling may fit better in Dundee.
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 Brighton as well as online; see the full list of areas.