Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Solihull
Online Psychotherapy in Solihull
Online psychotherapy for Solihull, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Solihull, from the town centre and Touchwood to the streets around the High Street, 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 Solihull
Psychotherapy for Solihull, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Solihull: from the town centre and Touchwood to Shirley, Olton and Knowle
- Known for
- The High Street, Brueton Park and the NEC nearby
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Solihull
Why do people in Solihull reach out?
A good number of people who reach longer work in Solihull have been high-functioning for a very long time. School, university, a career, a house in Knowle or Dorridge, all of it delivered. Underneath there is a rule laid down early: you are acceptable while you are producing. It holds up well until something interrupts it, a redundancy round at one of the big local employers, a child leaving home, a fiftieth birthday. Then the achievement stops working as an answer. This is not something a six-week course reaches, because the problem is not the current episode. It is the whole arrangement you made with yourself as a child in order to be alright.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Solihull
ShirleyOltonKnowleDorridgeBlossomfieldHillfieldElmdonBickenhillMonkspathLyndon
Wherever you are in Solihull, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Solihull
Official figures for Solihull, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 12.9% 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 104.4 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).
21.6% 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 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.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see everything on psychotherapy for the methods, how I work for fees and session lengths, and my BACP registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
How do online sessions actually work?
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.
Open-ended work asks for consistency, and a weekly video hour delivers that better than a commute would. The same time each week, from a room in your own house, whatever the traffic on the ring road is doing. Bradley works from Hove and all Solihull sessions are online, so nothing changes if you move house or your work base shifts to Birmingham. People generally hold one slot for a year or longer, and that unbroken rhythm is doing real work in itself.
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 Solihull
Why people in Solihull come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the long form. It is for recurring patterns rather than a single bad stretch: the same shape of relationship again, an inability to rest, a self-critical voice that no amount of success turns down. We spend real time on early relationships, on what you were praised for, on what had to be hidden. Identity and self-worth are the material, not just coping. It is open-ended, usually a year at minimum, and the middle of it is often uncomfortable. Emergency admissions for self-harm in the borough ran at 104.4 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000, and none of what this work addresses tends to show up in figures like that. It shows up as exhaustion, irritability and a life lived slightly at arm's length. If you would rather start with something briefer, NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies self-referrals are open.
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 Solihull
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Solihull, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies 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.
Solihull questions
Online Psychotherapy in Solihull: common questions
I have done CBT and it worked for a while. Why would this be any different?
Because the target is different. Structured short-term work is good at the current symptom, and that is often the right aim. Open-ended psychotherapy goes after the pattern that keeps generating symptoms, which means slower going, considerably more history, and no fixed endpoint decided in advance.
What does long-term work cost, week after week?
Each session is charged as it comes: £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min, £120 / 120 min. Most people hold a weekly 60-minute hour. Nothing is paid in advance, there is no tie-in, and the initial 15-minute consultation is free so you can ask about the commitment first.
Is there any chance of getting work this long through the NHS locally?
Long-term open-ended therapy is rarely what NHS services can offer. NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies provides shorter, structured courses for anxiety and depression, free and self-referred. The two are complementary rather than competing, and many people have done both.
I am the person everyone else relies on. Where does that come from?
That is precisely the question this work is built for. Being the capable one is usually learned early, in a household where it was needed. We look at how it was learned, what it costs you now, and what it would take to put some of it down safely.
Can I stop if a year turns out to be more than I want?
Yes, at any point, and endings are worth doing properly rather than by disappearing. If you decide to finish we use a few sessions to close it well, which for many people is one of the more valuable parts of the whole thing.
I function fine on the surface but feel hollow, can this help?
Yes. Keeping everything looking in order while feeling empty underneath is more common than it seems, especially where appearances matter. Psychotherapy makes room to explore what lies beneath the performance, gently and over time, working towards something steadier than simply keeping up.
How quickly can I begin online psychotherapy in Solihull?
Psychotherapy is deeper, longer-term work, and for people in Solihull it runs online with no waiting list. After a free 15-minute consultation we agree a regular weekly slot, and ongoing sessions can begin soon after, continuing for as long as they are useful.
What are your psychotherapy fees in Solihull, and how does that compare to the NHS?
NHS psychological therapy in Solihull is free but usually involves a wait and a limited course of sessions. Privately, an hour is £80, 90 minutes 100 and two hours 120, after a free consultation. Open-ended private work often suits deeper therapy.
Can online psychotherapy in Solihull be held in the evening, and where would I meet from?
Deeper work needs consistency, so a steady weekly video session is ideal, with evening times beyond the standard day often available. You might meet from home in Elmdon or Bickenhill; all that is needed is a private, uninterrupted space for the session.
Online Psychotherapy in Solihull, 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: Birmingham, Coventry. 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 Solihull.
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.