Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
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
- 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 do people in Inverness reach out?
People in the Highlands often arrive at longer therapy late. Help has always been a distance away, so a difficulty that started decades ago has usually been carried a long time before anybody looks at it. You may have done a short piece of counselling once, after a bereavement or a bad winter, and found it useful without it changing the underlying shape. What returns is not the original event but the position: always self-sufficient, always the one who does not need anything, always slightly outside. Around Inverness that can look exactly like ordinary Highland stoicism, which makes it very easy to miss.
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 local picture
The local picture in Inverness
Official figures for Inverness, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 4.9% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 9.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 18.3% of adults reported a high anxiety score (6 or above out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, below the Scotland average of 24.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 3.0% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below 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.
Rather than say the same thing on every page, the substance lives on the psychotherapy page, with how I work for the practical questions and my BACP registration for registration and ethics.
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 therapy requires a session that happens whatever else does, and in this region that means online. Bradley is in Hove; there is no room in Inverness. The hour holds through snow, through the tourist season, and through a job that takes you across the region for weeks at a time. You are not going to lose six months of work to a winter of impassable roads, and that steadiness is what open-ended therapy is built on.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Which difficulties does psychotherapy address?
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
Psychotherapy goes into the history rather than the week. We look at early relationships and what they taught you about depending on people, at attachment, and at how self-sufficiency became your main strategy. For many people raised in remote places, needing others was genuinely impractical as well as unwelcome, and that combination produces adults who are extremely capable and quietly very alone. This is open-ended weekly work, usually longer than a year, and it goes slowly on purpose. It is not the right response to a crisis; if things are acute, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, Mikeysline works across the Highlands, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and NHS inform sets out the alternatives. It is the right response to a pattern that has outlived every attempt to manage it.
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, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Inverness questions
Online Psychotherapy in Inverness: common questions
Is a year of therapy realistic when I live rurally?
More realistic than a shorter course used to be, because no travel is involved. One hour a week from home is sustainable in a way that a two-hour round trip is not, and that is precisely why longer work has become possible for people well outside the cities.
How does this differ from the counselling I had before?
That work would have concentrated on the situation you were in. This concentrates on why certain situations keep finding you, which means looking at family, childhood and attachment. It runs open-ended rather than for a set number of weeks, and the pace is deliberately slower throughout.
What will it cost me over a long period?
Each weekly hour is £80 and you pay for them one at a time, so nothing is committed in advance. Ninety minutes costs £100 and two hours £120 where a longer session serves better. The 15-minute consultation at the outset is free, and there is no charge for pausing.
Could NHS Highland provide something similar?
Your GP can refer you into NHS psychological therapies, which tend to be time-limited and structured rather than open-ended, with availability varying across a very large area. Ask what can be reached from your surgery. NHS inform describes the options and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
I have always managed on my own. Will I be able to depend on a therapist?
Probably not at first, and that is worth knowing rather than fixing straight away. How you handle needing somebody is often the central material of the work itself. Nothing has to be handed over before you are ready, and the reluctance is treated as information rather than resistance.
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.
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.
Close to this in Inverness, there is counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
There is more on this in my writing: dislocation and the modern world.
For anyone near the coast, the same psychotherapy runs in person in Hove, where the room is. Every area covered is listed separately.