Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Leicester
Online Psychotherapy in Leicester
Online psychotherapy for Leicester, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Leicester, from the centre and the Cultural Quarter to the streets around the market, 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 Leicester
Psychotherapy for Leicester, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Leicester: from the centre and the Cultural Quarter to Belgrave, Highfields and Clarendon Park
- Known for
- The market, the King Richard III centre and the universities
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Talking Therapies (find via the NHS finder)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Leicester
Why do people in Leicester reach out?
Some people spend their whole adult life meeting other people's expectations extremely well and have almost no idea what they themselves want. That can be built quietly in a childhood where being good, being useful or being a credit to the family was how you earned your place. Leicester holds a great many families where tradition, duty and modern life are all being carried at once, often by the same person, and the cost of that only becomes visible later. It surfaces as a sense of being an impostor, or as relationships that never quite let anyone in, or as anger you cannot account for and would never show.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Leicester
BelgraveHighfieldsClarendon ParkEvingtonKnightonAylestoneBraunstoneStoneygateWestcotesOadby
Wherever you are in Leicester, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Leicester
Official figures for Leicester, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 11.3% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 176 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
21% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, below the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
Reviewed June 2026.
What actually happens 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.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the main psychotherapy page for the methods, how I work, sessions and fees for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
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.
This is long work delivered online from Hove, and the format protects the two things depth needs: continuity and privacy. A weekly hour holds together through a change of job, a move from Westcotes to Oadby, or a stretch when leaving the house is hard. Nothing is lost to travel. What you need to secure is one hour a week in a place where nobody can hear you, which in a busy household may mean an unusual time of day.
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 Leicester
Why people in Leicester come for psychotherapy
Almost everyone who comes for this has tried something shorter already. It helped, and then the same difficulty returned in different clothing, which is exactly the material this work is made of. We look at what you learned about closeness before you could question it: what was safe to feel, what earned approval, what had to be kept out of sight. Identity and self-worth are the real subjects, and they move slowly. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm in Leicester ran at 176 per 100,000 in 2023/24, well above the England average of 117 per 100,000, and figures at that level say a good deal about distress that is held privately until it cannot be. Expect months rather than weeks, reviewed openly as the work goes on, and it is not always comfortable even though it should never feel unsafe. The pace belongs to you, and stopping is always allowed. If you want NHS support running in parallel, the NHS Talking Therapies finder remains open to self-referral across England.
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 Leicester
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Leicester, you can refer yourself directly to NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression, with no GP referral needed. You can find support through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
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.
Leicester questions
Online Psychotherapy in Leicester: common questions
How does this differ from counselling?
Counselling works with the present and generally finishes within months. This reaches back to where the pattern was set, so it takes longer and goes at a different pace. Recurring difficulties, early relationships, attachment and self-worth are the territory rather than the immediate problem.
What am I taking on financially if this runs for a year?
A weekly hour at £80 is the standard shape, which is worth thinking about as an ongoing monthly cost rather than a single figure. Longer sessions are £100 for ninety minutes and £120 for two hours. Raise affordability on the free 15-minute call so nothing comes as a shock later.
I tried an NHS course and it did not touch this. Why would longer work?
Short NHS therapy is built to treat the current episode of anxiety or low mood, and it is often effective at that. It is not designed to reach what keeps producing the episodes. When the same thing returns repeatedly, that underlying pattern is what needs the time.
Can something this personal really be done on a screen?
It can, and for many people it is easier. Depth relies on honesty and on an unbroken weekly rhythm rather than on being in the same building. People often say difficult things sooner from their own surroundings. What has to be right is that nobody at your end can overhear.
I feel caught between what my family expects and what I want. Is that therapy?
It is one of the most common reasons people come for longer work. This is not about choosing a side or rejecting anyone. It is about understanding how you learned to disappear inside other people's expectations, and what it would take to have a self that is genuinely yours.
Can psychotherapy make room for my culture and background?
Yes. Your background, family and beliefs are an important part of who you are, and good therapy takes them seriously rather than setting them aside. The work is led by what matters to you, and there is space to explore how heritage and expectation shape how you feel.
How quickly can I begin online psychotherapy in Leicester?
Psychotherapy is the deeper, more open-ended work, and in Leicester it is offered online with no waiting list. We would start with a free 15-minute consultation, then agree a regular weekly time, with ongoing sessions beginning soon after and continuing as long as they help.
What are your psychotherapy fees in Leicester, and how does that compare to the NHS?
NHS psychological therapy in Leicester is free but usually carries a wait and a limited course of sessions. Privately, an hour is £80, 90 minutes 100 and two hours 120, after a free consultation. Deeper work often benefits from the open-ended nature of private sessions.
Can online psychotherapy in Leicester be held in the evening, and where would I meet from?
Consistency matters in deeper therapy, so a regular weekly video session works best, and evening times beyond office hours are often available. You might meet from home in Highfields or Braunstone; all that is required is a private, uninterrupted space for the whole session.
Online Psychotherapy in Leicester, 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 Midlands: Nottingham, Coventry, Derby. See all of Midlands.
If psychotherapy is not quite what you are looking for, counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling may fit better in Leicester.
There is more on this in my writing: 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.