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

What brings people in Hull to counselling?

Some things in Hull do not move. Families stay in the same few streets across generations, and around Hessle Road you will still find people whose grandparents worked the same trade in the same square mile. That closeness holds people up and it also hands things down: the same arguments, the same roles at Christmas, the same way of coping that nobody ever questioned because everybody used it. Psychotherapy is for people who have noticed that the pattern is older than the current problem. Maybe you had six sessions somewhere once and they helped for a while, then it came back. Maybe you have never managed to explain to anyone why being loved makes you want to leave.

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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

Official figures for Hull, for context rather than as a description of you.

Reviewed June 2026.

What would we do together 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.

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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.

Long-term work needs continuity more than anything, and video gives you that. Bradley is in Hove, so nothing about this depends on you staying in Hull; if you move to Sutton, or leave the city altogether for work, the same weekly hour carries on. You keep one therapist for the whole of it rather than being reallocated. Start with the free 15-minute consultation, and if it fits, we agree an open-ended weekly time and protect it.

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What I help with

What sort of things do people bring?

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

People arrive here having already tried the short version. The tools worked, then stopped working, and the same thing came round again in a new relationship or a new job. Psychotherapy goes after that: what you learned very early about whether you would be looked after, what you do with anger, why your sense of your own worth is so tied to being useful to everyone. It takes longer because those things were built slowly. The scale of quiet distress in the city is real and measurable, with emergency hospital admissions for self-harm at 149.4 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000, and much of what sits behind that never reaches anyone. Depth work is not for crisis, though. If you need something now, Hull and East Yorkshire Mind and NHS Hull Talking Therapies are both there, and Hull University Teaching Hospitals covers urgent care. This is the slower piece you do once the ground is steady enough.

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

I have already had counselling and it did not hold. Why would this be different?

Shorter work usually treats the current problem, and that is often exactly right. When the problem keeps returning in a different shape, the useful question stops being what to do about it and becomes where it came from. That is slower work, and it changes something more structural.

How long does open-ended therapy actually run for, and what does it cost across that time?

Commonly a year or more, weekly, though you decide as you go and can stop at any point. Each session is £80 for 60 minutes, or £100 for 90 minutes if you want more room. It is worth budgeting for it as an ongoing weekly cost rather than a short course.

Can I get this depth of work through the NHS in Hull?

Not usually at this length. NHS Hull Talking Therapies, or Let's Talk Hull, is designed around shorter structured courses for anxiety and depression and is well worth using. Longer exploratory therapy through the NHS is limited and hard to access, which is why most people arrange it privately.

My family are all still round Hull and I would rather they knew nothing about this. Is that possible?

Yes. Nothing is shared with anyone, there is no local building anyone might see you enter, and no letter goes to your GP unless you ask for one. In a city where people know each other's families, that separation matters more than it might elsewhere.

Will you make me talk about my childhood from day one?

No. We start wherever you are, and early history comes in when it becomes relevant, which it usually does on its own. Some weeks are about last Tuesday. The past tends to arrive through the present rather than through a questionnaire.

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 £80, with 90-minute meetings at £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.

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.

Close to this in Hull, 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.