Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Plymouth
Online Psychotherapy in Plymouth
Online psychotherapy for Plymouth, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Plymouth, from the Barbican and the Hoe to the streets around the Sound, 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 Plymouth
Psychotherapy for Plymouth, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Plymouth: from the Barbican and the Hoe to Devonport, Stonehouse and Mutley
- Known for
- Plymouth Hoe, the Barbican and the Sound
- Region
- South West (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Talking Therapies Plymouth (Plymouth Options)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Plymouth
What is going on for people in Plymouth?
Some people in Plymouth grew up moving. A forces childhood means new schools, new streets, friendships packed away every couple of years, and children get very good at fitting in quickly and attaching to nobody in particular. That skill lasts. Thirty years on it can look like independence, or like a marriage where you are somehow never fully present, or like leaving a job just before anyone gets close. Others grew up here with a family shaped by the dockyard and its certainties, and learned different rules about what a person is allowed to need. Either way, the same difficulty comes round again, and the reasons attached to it never quite explain it.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Plymouth
DevonportStonehouseMutleythe BarbicanPeverellMannameadPlymptonPlymstockSt BudeauxEffordStoke
Wherever you are in Plymouth, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Plymouth
Official figures for Plymouth, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 16.7% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 112 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
25.4% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above 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.
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 how to check my registration for registration and ethics.
What do I need for an online session?
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.
Plymouth is served online from Hove, which suits work measured in months rather than sessions. There is no journey to make in bad weather and no risk that a change of address ends the therapy, so the thread holds even if you move away from the city altogether. Deep work depends on that steadiness far more than on a particular building. At your end it needs privacy and an hour nobody else can claim.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does psychotherapy help with?
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 Plymouth
Why people in Plymouth come for psychotherapy
Most people who start psychotherapy have tried a shorter course first. It helped at the time and then wore off, which is what happens when the roots are older than the trouble being described. Here we go back to the beginning: how attachment worked in your family, what you had to do to be approved of, what you decided about yourself before you were old enough to argue with it. That is slower work and it changes different things. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm ran at 112 per 100,000 in 2023/24, just below the England average of 117 per 100,000, and a figure near the average still represents a great deal of hidden distress. Sessions run weekly over months, reviewed together, ending when you decide. NHS Talking Therapies Plymouth, known as Plymouth Options, is available alongside.
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 Plymouth
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Plymouth, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Talking Therapies Plymouth (Plymouth Options) 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.
Plymouth questions
Online Psychotherapy in Plymouth: common questions
I moved constantly as a child. Is that relevant?
It very often is. Repeated moves teach a child to make attachments lightly and to expect endings, and those habits outlive the childhood that required them. Looking at how they still operate in your adult relationships is a large part of longer-term work.
How much does this cost over months?
Each weekly hour is £80, so the realistic figure is that repeated across however long the work runs. Ninety minutes is £100 and two hours £120 if ever needed. Nothing is charged in advance, and the initial 15-minute conversation is free.
I finished a course of NHS therapy and slipped back. What does that mean?
It usually means the format ran out before the material did, which is a mismatch of length rather than a failure on your part. Time-limited therapy handles the present difficulty well. When something older is generating it, longer work is the more honest option.
Can I use NHS support at the same time as this?
Yes, and it is not a conflict. NHS Talking Therapies Plymouth operates independently of private work, and some people use it for immediate symptom relief while longer therapy deals with what keeps producing them. Tell each service what the other is doing.
Does being this far from anywhere limit my choice of therapist?
It used to. Working online means the choice is no longer restricted to who happens to practise within driving distance of the city, which matters when you want a particular kind of long-term work rather than whoever has a vacancy nearby.
Can longer-term psychotherapy work around a forces posting from Plymouth?
Yes. Secure video sessions can continue through moves and deployments, keeping the regular rhythm that deeper work depends on. Nothing goes through the base. The consulting room is in Hove, so Plymouth is served online, with in-person visits only for those able to reach Sussex.
How soon can I begin online psychotherapy in Plymouth?
Deeper psychotherapy is open-ended, so we start when you are ready rather than after a long wait. People across Plymouth usually book a first session within a week or two of the free 15-minute consultation. It is all delivered online by secure video from the Hove room.
What are your psychotherapy fees in Plymouth, and how does that compare with the NHS?
Longer-term psychotherapy is private and self funded. Each 60-minute session is £80, with £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, plus a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Talking Therapies in Plymouth are reachable through a GP, but they rarely offer the open-ended depth that private work in Plymouth allows.
Does online psychotherapy work around a busy Plymouth schedule, including evenings?
Yes. Regular online sessions let deeper work continue even with a demanding Plymouth routine or travel, the kind familiar to personnel tied to the Devonport naval base. A consistent weekly slot, including some evenings, keeps the therapy steady. The consulting room is in Hove, so psychotherapy is delivered UK-wide by secure video.
Online Psychotherapy in Plymouth, 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 South West: Exeter, Torquay. See all of South West.
Related work in Plymouth: counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
Some further reading, if that helps before getting in touch: 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.