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Online Relationship Counselling · Inverness
Online Relationship Counselling in Inverness
Online relationship counselling for Inverness, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Inverness, from the centre and the castle to the streets around the river Ness, 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 Inverness
Relationship Counselling for Inverness, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Inverness: from the centre and the castle to Crown, Hilton and Inshes
- Known for
- The castle, the river Ness and the Highlands beyond
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Inverness
What is going on for people in Inverness?
Distance shapes relationships in the Highlands. A couple in Inshes or Culloden may both work, but one of them drives two hours to do it, or works away for a fortnight at a time in a season that ends in October. Highland tourism fills the summer with fourteen-hour days and empties the winter of both money and daylight. In a small city where the nearest specialist of any kind can be a long way off, couples get used to managing on their own, and managing on your own becomes a habit that quietly excludes your partner too. By February, two people who love each other can sit in the same warm room with nothing left to say.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Inverness
CrownHiltonInshesMerkinchDalneighCullodenSmithtonRaigmoreWesthill
Wherever you are in Inverness, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Inverness
Official figures for Inverness, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 4.9% of adults reported a low happiness score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 9.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 18.3% of adults reported a high anxiety score (6 or above out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, below the Scotland average of 24.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 3.0% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 6.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
Reviewed June 2026.
What is relationship counselling, in practice?
Relationship counselling here, for couples or individuals, slows down the pattern you are caught in and builds healthier ways of hearing and being heard.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see the relationship counselling page for the methods, how I work, sessions and fees for fees and session lengths, and my BACP registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
What happens in 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.
There is no counselling room in Inverness and Bradley works from Hove, so sessions are by secure video. In the Highlands that is not a compromise; it is the thing that makes any of it possible. No two-hour round trip in the dark, no cancelling because a road is closed. If one of you is working away for the season, you can still join the same session from two places. And in a small city, nobody sees you arrive anywhere.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does relationship counselling help with?
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 Inverness
Why people in Inverness come for relationship counselling
Two themes come up repeatedly. The first is separateness: months of long hours in the season followed by a winter in which neither of you quite knows how to be together again. The second is what isolation does to conflict, because when there is nobody nearby to talk to, your partner becomes the only outlet and every disagreement carries more weight than it should. We work on the mechanics of talking: what happens in the first thirty seconds of a difficult conversation, who leaves the room, how you find your way back afterwards. Trust, distance and the strain of a partner's low mood all get room here. You are welcome on your own. For the health service route, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies; NHS inform carries trusted self-help, Mikeysline supports people across the Highlands, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 Inverness
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Inverness, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and you can find trusted self-help through NHS inform. You can find support through NHS inform; for confidential listening support, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Inverness questions
Online Relationship Counselling in Inverness: common questions
Can we do this if one of us works away for the whole season?
Yes, and it is one of the reasons online suits the Highlands. You can join from two different places and still be in the same conversation. Where the signal is poor we can drop to audio for that session rather than cancel it, and pick the video back up the following week.
What does relationship counselling cost from up here?
An hour is £80, ninety minutes £100 and two hours £120, charged once per session regardless of whether one of you or both of you attend. Couples often find ninety minutes better value in practice. There is a free 15-minute consultation before anything is arranged or paid for.
What is the NHS route for this in the Highlands?
It starts with your GP, who can refer you on to NHS psychological therapies. Waits can be longer where a service covers a large rural area, so it is worth asking. NHS inform has self-help you can trust, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87 when the evenings are hardest.
The winter here is very dark. Does that really affect a marriage?
It frequently does. Short days, little daylight and fewer reasons to leave the house shrink a couple's world down to one room, and low mood in one of you is easily mistaken for coldness by the other. Working out which is which, before the pattern hardens, tends to help a great deal.
Everyone knows everyone here. How private is this?
Completely. There is no building, no receptionist and no appointment book that anybody local can see. Sessions are held on secure video, and what is said stays between us within the usual professional limits. For many people in a small city that privacy is the deciding factor.
Can we have couples sessions if we live far outside Inverness?
Yes. As long as you both have a private space and a reasonable connection, secure video reaches you wherever you are in the Highlands. That spares the long drive into the city, which makes keeping a shared appointment far more realistic through the winter months.
How soon can relationship counselling start in Inverness?
Usually within a week or two. We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, then book a first session to suit you both. Everything runs by secure video across Inverness and the wider Highlands, so there is no waiting list and no long drive into the city to face.
What does couples counselling cost against NHS help in Inverness?
Sessions are £80 for an hour, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. NHS Highland covers a vast area with real waits, and dedicated couples work is scarce, so many around Inverness choose private online sessions to start sooner.
We live outside Inverness, can couples sessions still reach us?
Yes. As long as you have a reasonable connection and somewhere private, secure video reaches you both anywhere in the Highlands, and you can even join from two different places. Evening slots help too, so distance and glens no longer stand between an Inverness couple and support.
Online Relationship Counselling in Inverness, 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 Scotland: Aberdeen, Perth. See all of Scotland.
If relationship counselling is not quite what you are looking for, counselling and therapy, trauma counselling and addiction counselling may fit better in Inverness.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about the Imago dialogue for couples.
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.