Online Psychotherapy · Hull

Online Psychotherapy in Hull

Online psychotherapy for Hull, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Hull, from the Old Town and the marina to the streets around the Deep, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.

Online across the UKSecure videoFree 15-min consultation
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
Bradley Riddell, BACP-registered counsellor offering online psychotherapy for Hull, introducing his approach
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you

In and around Hull

Psychotherapy for Hull, at a glance

Areas covered online
All of Hull: from the Old Town and the marina to Newland Avenue, Bransholme and Hessle Road
Known for
The marina, the Deep and the Humber Bridge
Region
Yorkshire & North East (England)
Local NHS / support route
NHS Hull Talking Therapies (Let's Talk Hull)
Format
Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.

Life in Hull

Why people in Hull reach out

Hull is a proud port city on the Humber with a strong fishing heritage and a renewed cultural energy, but it has also weathered real hardship and isolation at the end of the line. Insecure work, money pressure and the distance from other cities shape much of what people here carry.

Hull sits where the river Hull meets the broad Humber estuary, a proud port city looking out to the North Sea. The cobbled Old Town and the marina cluster near the tidal barrier and The Deep, while the fishing heritage of Hessle Road and the café-lined Newland and Princes Avenues speak to different sides of the city. Its year as UK City of Culture in 2017 left a lasting mark, and the great single-span Humber Bridge still frames the western approach. Down at Alexandra Dock, the offshore wind industry has brought turbine manufacturing to the estuary, and ferries still slip out overnight for the Continent. The University of Hull anchors the north of the city off Cottingham Road.

University of Hullthe port and offshore wind sectorHull University Teaching Hospitals

Where work follows shifts and the rhythm of the docks, online sessions bend around unsociable hours rather than asking you to fit your life around them.

Hull is home to the University of Hull and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill); Siemens Gamesa runs a major offshore wind turbine blade factory at Alexandra Dock on the Humber.

Areas covered

Neighbourhoods in and around Hull

Old TownNewland AvenuePrinces AvenueHessle RoadAvenuesSpring BankBransholmeAnlaby RoadSuttonMarfleet

Wherever you are in Hull, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.

The local picture

The local picture in Hull

These figures are local context from official sources, not a description of you, but they show the scale of what people in and around Hull are living with, and why local support matters.

Local data last reviewed June 2026. Each figure shows the year and links to the official source it was read on.

The psychotherapy itself

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 approach is the same wherever you live, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods, what each session covers and fees, on the main psychotherapy page and on how I work.

How online sessions work

Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link held to the same strict BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, you join each session from any private space using a phone, tablet or laptop, no software to install, no waiting room and no journey at either end.

I'm based in Hove and work with people across Hull by secure video call, not in person. Being at the end of the line, as Hull sometimes feels, makes online counselling genuinely useful here, distance stops mattering. You can join from home off Newland Avenue or wherever's quiet, and we keep a regular weekly time that works around shift patterns or family life rather than an office-hours appointment.

Book a free 15-minute call

What I help with

How online psychotherapy in Hull can help

Recurring patterns

When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.

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 Hull

Why people in Hull come for psychotherapy

When the sense of being at the end of the line meets something longer-standing you have carried for years, Hull can feel a lonely place to sit with it. Psychotherapy is the deeper, more searching work of understanding those enduring patterns, why certain feelings return and where a sense of being stuck took hold. It asks for time and a steady rhythm rather than a quick answer. I offer this longer-term work online from Hove to people across Hull, so remoteness never interrupts a dependable weekly hour, wherever in the city you are.

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 call

Finding support in Hull

My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Hull, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Hull Talking Therapies (Let's Talk Hull) 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.

Hull questions

Online Psychotherapy in Hull: common questions

Can I get online psychotherapy if I live in Hull?

Yes. I work with people right across Hull, from the Old Town and the marina outwards, and anywhere else in Yorkshire & North East, by secure video, no need to travel to Hove, and just as confidential as meeting in the room.

How is psychotherapy different from counselling?

Psychotherapy usually goes deeper and longer, into the patterns, beliefs and early relationships shaping how you feel now, rather than only the present difficulty. It suits people who notice the same things keep coming round.

Does it have to be long-term?

Not necessarily, but depth work benefits from time. We agree the pace and depth together and review as we go, so it stays led by you.

Will I have to talk about my childhood?

Only where it helps make sense of the present. We follow what is alive and relevant for you, gently, never forcing a return to anything before you are ready.

I have felt stuck for a long time. Is deeper therapy worth it out here?

Yes, and distance is no barrier. Psychotherapy explores long-standing patterns at a steady, unhurried pace that shorter work cannot reach. I offer it online from Hove, at a dependable weekly hour, wherever you are across Hull.

Do you provide longer-term psychotherapy online for clients in Hull?

I do. Deeper psychotherapy suits secure video well, and I work this way with people across Hull from my room in Hove. There is no local waiting list, so after a free 15-minute consultation we can usually start the ongoing weekly work within a week or two.

What does ongoing psychotherapy cost in Hull compared with the NHS?

Weekly 60-minute sessions are GBP 80, with 90-minute meetings at GBP 100 where helpful. The NHS rarely funds open-ended psychotherapy and waits for deeper work can be long, so many Hull clients choose private online sessions to begin and continue without interruption.

Can deeper therapy really work online while I live in Hull?

Many people find it does. A regular weekly video session from the same private space in Hull gives this work the steadiness it needs. I keep some evening slots, and because nothing depends on a journey the sessions hold even through a difficult week.

Do you have a room in Hull?

No, I work online from Hove, so we'd meet by secure video rather than face to face in the city. For a place as far east as Hull, that removes the usual problem of specialist support being a long drive away; you can talk from home without travelling at all.

I work shifts around the docks, can sessions fit that?

Yes. Because everything is online, we can find a slot that works around rotas and awkward hours rather than office-time appointments. If a shift changes, moving a video session is far simpler than rearranging a trip across the city, so a regular time is easy to keep.

Online Psychotherapy in Hull, 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 Yorkshire & North East: York, Leeds. See all of Yorkshire & North East.

All counselling & therapy in Hull: Addiction · Substance Use · Drinking Problems · Anxiety · Depression · Relationship · Trauma · Counselling & Therapy.

Closer to the Sussex coast? The same psychotherapy is available in person in Brighton & Hove, or see all in-person areas.