Online Relationship Counselling · Crawley

Online Relationship Counselling in Crawley

Online relationship counselling for Crawley, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Crawley, from across the neighbourhoods, Three Bridges and Pound Hill to the streets around Tilgate Park, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.

Online across the UKSecure videoFree 15-min consultation
BACP registered member25+ years of experienceLived experience
Bradley Riddell, BACP-registered counsellor offering online relationship counselling for Crawley, introducing his approach
ConfidentialA safe, private space
Person-centredThe therapy fits you

In and around Crawley

Relationship Counselling for Crawley, at a glance

Areas covered online
All of Crawley: across the neighbourhoods, from Three Bridges and Pound Hill to Bewbush, Ifield and Tilgate
Known for
Tilgate Park, the High Street and nearby Gatwick
Region
London & South East (England)
Local NHS / support route
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies
Format
Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.

Life in Crawley

What brings people in Crawley to counselling?

Two people can share a house and see very little of one another when one is on earlies at Gatwick Airport and the other is on lates in the Manor Royal business district. This town runs on rotas. Somebody is always going out as somebody else comes in, and the handover happens by text or on a note left by the kettle. In Bewbush, Tilgate and Maidenbower there are households where the last unhurried conversation was months ago and neither person could tell you when. Aviation has had a rough decade too, and job insecurity does something particular to a couple: it turns every ordinary disagreement about money into a referendum on the future.

Gatwick Airportthe Manor Royal business districtthe aviation and logistics sector

Areas covered

Neighbourhoods in and around Crawley

Three BridgesPound HillBewbushIfieldTilgateSouthgateBroadfieldMaidenbowerGossops GreenFurnace Green

Wherever you are in Crawley, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.

The local picture

The local picture in Crawley

Official figures for Crawley, for context rather than as a description of you.

Reviewed June 2026.

What actually happens in relationship counselling?

Relationship counselling here, for couples or individuals, slows down the pattern you are caught in and builds healthier ways of hearing and being heard.

The method travels; only the geography changes. everything on relationship counselling explains it properly, the practical side answers the practical questions, and qualifications, registration and ethics shows how the practice is held to account.

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.

Sessions are held online by secure video, because there is no room here and Bradley works from Hove. For rota families that is the difference between having counselling and not having it at all. A slot at seven in the morning after a night shift is possible; so is joining from two places when one of you is at the airport and the other is at home in Pound Hill. Neither of you has to swap a shift with a colleague in order to attend.

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What I help with

What sort of things do people bring?

Communication and conflict

Breaking the cycle of the same argument.

Trust and repair

Rebuilding safety after betrayal or addiction.

Distance

Finding your way back to closeness.

Long-distance couples

Sessions you can join from different places.

Anxiety and reassurance

Working with people-pleasing and the need for control.

Individual work

You do not need to come as a couple to change the dynamic.

Relationship Counselling in Crawley

Why people in Crawley come for relationship counselling

What brings couples here is usually erosion rather than a crisis. You are polite, you are organised, and you have not had a proper conversation since the clocks changed. Shift patterns take the blame for a while, and then it becomes clear something else is being avoided as well: a betrayal nobody has finished talking about, a drinking habit that started as a way of coming down after a late, a sense that one of you is doing far more of the family than the other. Anxiety runs high across this area, with 24.5% of adults reporting a high anxiety score in 2022/23 against an England average of 23.8%, and two wound-up, sleep-short people rarely soothe each other unaided. The work slows the exchange down, looks at how repair gets attempted and missed, and gets each of you saying plainly what you want. NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies accepts self-referrals for the mood side of 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 call

Finding support in Crawley

My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Crawley, you can refer yourself directly to NHS West Sussex 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.

Crawley questions

Online Relationship Counselling in Crawley: common questions

I am on a rolling roster at the airport. Can our sessions move with my shifts?

They can. We book the following week's hour at the end of each session once you know the roster, which keeps the rhythm deliberate instead of letting it drift. Where a fixed weekly slot is possible we hold it, because a standing time is easier for a couple to protect than a negotiated one.

Does it cost more when two of us are in the session?

No, the price is per session rather than per person: £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min, £120 / 120 min. Many couples take the ninety, because sixty minutes can run out while the second person is still finding their way into it. There is no charge for the introductory 15-minute call.

What is the free NHS route in Crawley for this?

NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies takes self-referrals without a GP appointment and costs nothing to use. It is aimed at anxiety and low mood rather than at couples specifically, so what is offered may not be joint work. West Sussex Wellbeing is the county council's health and wellbeing service.

My partner works nights. Can we still do couples work?

Yes, and quite a few couples here are in exactly that position. You can attend together on a shared day off, or one of you can join from home while the other joins before a shift starts. Some weeks only one of you makes it, and that is workable rather than a wasted hour.

How long before we could start?

Most people have the free 15-minute call within a few days and their first full session a week or two after that. There is no referral, no assessment panel and no waiting list. If your roster comes out a month ahead, bring it to that call and we will find hours that actually exist.

Our airport shift patterns never seem to line up. Can couples sessions still work?

Yes. Mismatched shifts are exactly why many Crawley couples choose online counselling. We look at both rotas and find a recurring slot that works around them, and because there is no travel, even a narrow overlap between shifts is usually enough.

How soon can we start relationship counselling online in Crawley?

Usually within a week. There is no waiting list, so after a free 15-minute consultation we book a first session around airport shift patterns. It is held securely online, joined from home in Three Bridges, Pound Hill or Ifield, with no journey to fit into a round-the-clock working week.

What are your fees, and how do they compare with the NHS around Crawley?

Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Talking Therapies in Sussex is free but can involve a waiting list, whereas private work with Bradley lets the two of you choose a time that fits Gatwick hours.

We both work irregular airport shifts. Can couples join from different places?

Yes. Shift patterns that ignore day and night are common here, so online sessions are joined from home, or from two locations if needed, with early or later slots available. We agree a regular time that works around your Gatwick or Manor Royal rota rather than against it.

Online Relationship Counselling in Crawley, 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 London & South East: Horsham, Chichester. See all of London & South East.

Also available in Crawley: counselling and therapy, trauma counselling and addiction counselling.

You may also find it useful to read about the Imago dialogue for couples.

Closer to the Sussex coast? The same relationship counselling is available in person, in Hove, where the room is, or see every area I cover.