Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Online Psychotherapy · Swansea
Online Psychotherapy in Swansea
Online psychotherapy for Swansea, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Swansea, from the centre and the marina to the streets around the bay, 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 Swansea
Psychotherapy for Swansea, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Swansea: from the centre and the marina to Uplands, Sketty and Morriston
- Known for
- The bay, the marina and the Gower beyond
- Region
- Wales
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Wales)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Swansea
Why do people in Swansea reach out?
The maritime quarter and the marina sit on what was once a working dock, and Swansea is a city that has had to become something else more than once. People do that too, though rarely so deliberately. If you grew up in St Thomas or Bonymaen in a household where work was uncertain and the adults were stretched thin, you may have concluded very early that the safest course was to need almost nothing and cause no trouble. Decisions of that kind get made before you can examine them, and then they run for thirty years. What brings people to longer therapy is usually noticing that the same story keeps turning up with different people in it.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Swansea
UplandsSkettyMorristonMumblesBrynmillTownhillSt ThomasLandoreGorseinonClydachKillayBonymaen
Wherever you are in Swansea, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Swansea
Official figures for Swansea, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Swansea, 9.4% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, in line with the Wales average of 10.4%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Swansea the average anxiety rating was 3.46 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, above the Wales average of 3.3 (a higher score indicates more anxiety). Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Swansea, 5.5% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, compared with a Wales average of 6.9%, a difference the survey's margin of error does not confirm. 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.
The method travels; only the geography changes. the main psychotherapy page explains it properly, how I work, sessions and fees answers the practical questions, and how to check my registration shows how the practice is held to account.
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.
Swansea work is done online from Hove, and that suits therapy which is meant to last. A weekly hour that depends on no parking, no weather and no bus becomes something you can genuinely build a year around. People here have carried on through moving out towards Clydach or Gorseinon, through changing employers, and through stretches when leaving the house was hard. Decide early where you will take the session from and how the hour stays clear.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea come for psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the long form of this work. It is aimed not at a current crisis but at the shape underneath a life: why closeness feels risky, why achievement never quite counts, why you are hardest on yourself at exactly the moments you need something else. Those things were learned in your earliest relationships and do not respond to argument. So we go slowly, looking at your family, at what you had to do to be acceptable there, and at how the same arrangement plays out now with partners, colleagues and your own children. Sessions are weekly with no fixed end, and months is the minimum realistic frame. It is demanding in stretches. Swansea's average anxiety rating was 3.46 out of 10 in the year ending March 2023, against a Wales average of 3.3. It is also the work that stops the same thing arriving again every few years. For NHS support alongside it, in Wales the route is your GP, and CALL takes calls free on 0800 132 737.
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 Swansea
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Swansea, you can access NHS psychological therapies through your GP or local primary mental health support service. You can find support through the CALL Mental Health Helpline for Wales, free and confidential on 0800 132 737.
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 press 2 for urgent mental health support. The CALL Helpline for Wales is free on 0800 132 737, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Swansea questions
Online Psychotherapy in Swansea: common questions
What sort of timescale are we talking about?
A year of weekly sessions would be ordinary, and some people continue for longer. Nothing is booked as a block, and there is no target number to reach. We look at how it is going from time to time, and you decide when it has run its course.
How do the fees work over a long period?
Each weekly hour is £80, with 90 minutes at £100 and two hours at £120 when a session needs the extra space. Sustained over months that is a real commitment, so it is worth talking through honestly in the free 15-minute call before anything starts.
Could I get this through the NHS instead?
Open-ended therapy of this kind is uncommon in NHS services, which tend to be shorter and focused on symptoms. Your GP is nonetheless the route in Wales and can explain what local mental health support currently offers. Using both, for different purposes, is entirely reasonable.
I had counselling as a student and it helped for a term. Is this simply a longer version of that?
Not really. Short counselling settles what is happening at the time, which is exactly what it is for. When the same feeling returns in a new job or a new relationship, that suggests something structural underneath, and reaching it takes a longer and slower kind of work.
Is this only for people who had a difficult childhood?
No. Plenty of people who come describe their childhood as perfectly fine, and mean it. What matters is what you concluded as a child about yourself and other people, and those conclusions can be limiting even when nothing obviously bad ever took place.
Does deeper therapy really work over video?
It does. The consistency and privacy of meeting from your own space can actually help the deeper work, and the therapeutic relationship holds just as firmly online. People across Swansea engage in long-term psychotherapy with me by secure video.
How soon could I begin longer-term psychotherapy while living in Swansea?
Usually within a week or two. Psychotherapy is deeper, ongoing work, so we start with a free 15-minute consultation to check it suits you. I see people right across Swansea and Gower by secure video, with no local waiting list slowing things down.
What does ongoing psychotherapy cost compared with NHS provision in Wales?
Each session is £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 or £120 for 120, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Wales rarely offers open-ended psychotherapy without a long wait, so private online work gives you sustained, deeper sessions that can start straight away.
Can deeper psychotherapy be done properly over video from home in Swansea?
Yes. Many people find the depth of psychotherapy comes more easily from a familiar room than a clinic across the bay. Working by secure video, I see people weekly around Swansea, and I can offer evening slots so sessions fit around work or study.
Online Psychotherapy in Swansea, 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 Wales: Neath, Llanelli, Cardiff. See all of Wales.
People who come for psychotherapy in Swansea often also look at counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about dislocation and the modern world.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Hove, where the room is — all in-person areas are listed here.