Recurring patterns
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Online Psychotherapy · Inverness
Online Psychotherapy in Inverness
Online psychotherapy for Inverness, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Inverness, from the centre and the castle to the streets around the river Ness, 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 Inverness
Psychotherapy for Inverness, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Inverness: from the centre and the castle to Crown, Hilton and Inshes
- Known for
- The castle, the river Ness and the Highlands beyond
- Region
- Scotland (Scotland)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Inverness
Why people in Inverness reach out
Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, a small city serving a vast and sparsely populated region where the nearest specialist can be hundreds of miles away. That remoteness, the long dark winters and the isolation of rural Highland life all shape what people here carry.
Inverness is a small city with an enormous job: it serves as the capital of the Highlands, a region that stretches for hundreds of miles of glen, loch and coast. People travel in from Skye, Wester Ross and the far north to shop, to study or to reach Raigmore Hospital, and for many the city is the nearest thing to a centre for a long way in any direction. The River Ness runs through the middle, the castle looks down from its hill, and Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal lie just beyond. Winters are long and dark this far north, and the isolation of rural Highland life, where a neighbour might be miles away, can weigh heavily on people through the quiet months.
Across the rural Highlands the nearest counsellor can be hours away and the winters long and dark; online sessions bring experienced support to you wherever you are.
Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, serving NHS Highland from Raigmore Hospital, and is a hub of the University of the Highlands and Islands across a vast rural region.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Inverness
CrownHiltonInshesMerkinchDalneighCullodenSmithtonRaigmoreWesthill
Wherever you are in Inverness, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
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.
In the Highlands, the nearest specialist can be a very long drive, and NHS Highland covers a vast, thinly populated area where waits and travel are real barriers. This is where online work makes the biggest difference: a secure video session reaches Inverness, and the glens and villages around it, without anyone facing a round trip of hours. I'm based in Hove on the south coast of England and see clients across the Highlands and the whole UK online.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
How online psychotherapy in Inverness can help
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 Inverness
Why people in Inverness come for psychotherapy
Some of what people carry in the Highlands has roots that run deeper than the current season or a long drive to town: old losses, a childhood that taught you to manage alone, patterns of self-reliance that once helped and now leave you isolated. Psychotherapy makes room for that slower, more searching work, exploring where these patterns began and how they still shape you. We meet by secure video from wherever you feel private, whether in Inverness or a house far out in the glens, so this deeper work can unfold at its own pace, with no journey to build it around.
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 Inverness
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Inverness, 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, and the Samaritans are on 116 123.
Inverness questions
Online Psychotherapy in Inverness: common questions
Can I get online psychotherapy if I live in Inverness?
Yes. I work with people right across Inverness, from the centre and the castle outwards, and anywhere else in Scotland, 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've always coped on my own up here, is deeper therapy for me?
Self-reliance is often exactly what brings people to this work. Psychotherapy gives space to understand the habits that once protected you but now keep you apart from others. There is no pressure to open up faster than feels safe; it moves at your own pace.
When could deeper psychotherapy begin in Inverness?
Usually within a week or two. After a free 15-minute consultation we agree a regular weekly slot for longer-term work, all by secure video. There is no NHS Highland referral to wait for and no clinic to reach, so deeper work can start wherever you are near Inverness.
Is private psychotherapy worth it beside NHS options in Inverness?
That is your call. Fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free first consultation. NHS Highland offers limited long-term psychotherapy across a vast area, so private online work gives Highland clients depth, continuity and a far sooner start.
Can psychotherapy keep its depth online across the Highlands?
Yes. Longer-term work depends on trust and consistency far more than on sharing a room, and both build well over secure video. From a croft, a village or a flat in Inverness, weekly sessions give the steady, private setting deeper therapy needs, with no distance to travel.
I live outside Inverness in the Highlands, can I still have sessions?
Yes. As long as you have a reasonable internet or phone connection and somewhere private, secure video reaches you wherever you are in the Highlands. That's often far easier than a long drive into the city, especially through the winter months.
Do you travel to the Highlands to see people?
No. I'm based in Hove in the south of England and work entirely online with clients across the Highlands and the rest of the UK. For this part of Scotland especially, video sessions remove the distances that make in-person specialist help so hard to reach.
Online Psychotherapy in Inverness, 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: Aberdeen, Perth. See all of Scotland.
All counselling & therapy in Inverness: 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.