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Online Relationship Counselling · Liverpool
Online Relationship Counselling in Liverpool
Online relationship counselling for Liverpool, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Liverpool, from the waterfront and the centre to the streets around the two cathedrals, 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 Liverpool
Relationship Counselling for Liverpool, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Liverpool: from the waterfront and the centre to Toxteth, Anfield, Allerton and Walton
- Known for
- The waterfront, the two cathedrals and the music heritage
- Region
- North West (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Talking Therapies (find via the NHS finder)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Liverpool
Why do people in Liverpool reach out?
Liverpool has a reputation for warmth and for saying what it thinks, and both are real. What is less visible is how much that costs some couples. When your family and your neighbours are close by in Walton, Anfield or Aigburth, and everybody is expected to be alright, a marriage in trouble becomes a private matter you protect rather than a problem you get help with. The city has taken real knocks over the years and people here are proud of coping. Inside a partnership that pride can turn into two people performing fine at one another, making jokes about it, and never once saying plainly that something is badly wrong.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Liverpool
the city centre and waterfrontToxtethAnfieldAllertonWaltonAigburthWavertreeWooltonKensingtonthe Baltic Triangle
Wherever you are in Liverpool, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Liverpool
Official figures for Liverpool, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 123.8 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 17.4% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
22.5% 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 does relationship counselling involve?
Relationship counselling here, for couples or individuals, slows down the pattern you are caught in and builds healthier ways of hearing and being heard.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: everything on relationship counselling sets out the methods, how I work covers the practicalities, and how to check my registration covers accountability.
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.
Because Bradley works from Hove, sessions happen by secure video or phone. In a city where you are likely to know somebody wherever you go, that privacy counts for a lot. There is no building, no reception and nobody to explain yourself to. You can both sit at the same laptop, join from separate places if shifts or work at the docks make that easier, or start on your own if your partner is not ready.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can relationship counselling in Liverpool 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 Liverpool
Why people in Liverpool come for relationship counselling
The reasons couples get in touch here are rarely exotic: conversations that only cover logistics, an old betrayal never properly worked through, and one partner sinking whilst the other manages. Low mood is a big part of it, with depression on GP registers at 17.4% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25 against an England average of 14.3%. Depression in one person changes both people. The unwell partner feels like a burden, the other becomes brisk and busy, and affection is the first thing to go. Sessions look at how you speak to each other when frightened, what repair genuinely takes after trust broke, and what each of you has stopped asking for. The NHS Talking Therapies finder covers free individual self-referral in England, and River, run by Change Grow Live in Liverpool, is the local drug and alcohol service if drinking has got into the middle 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 callFinding support in Liverpool
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Liverpool, you can refer yourself directly to NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression, with no GP referral needed. You can find support through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
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.
Liverpool questions
Online Relationship Counselling in Liverpool: common questions
Our family all know each other's business. How confidential is this?
Yes. Nothing is shared with your family, employer or doctor, and there is no building where anyone might see you arriving. The only limits are the standard ones about serious risk to life, which I would talk to you about rather than act on silently.
What is the cost for two of us?
Sessions are priced by length, not by head: £80 for an hour, £100 for 90 minutes, £120 for two hours. A longer session usually suits couples better, since an hour tends to end just as you get to the real thing. Consultations beforehand are free.
We joke about everything, including this. Will that get in the way?
Not necessarily, and humour is often how people here survive a great deal. It only becomes a problem when it is used to change the subject at exactly the moment something honest is about to be said. We would notice that together rather than police it.
Can the NHS Talking Therapies finder help with our marriage?
It is the free self-referral route in England for individual anxiety and low mood, so it treats one person rather than a couple. Plenty of people here use it for themselves and bring the relationship to these sessions, and the two sit together perfectly well.
My partner says therapy is for other people. Can I come alone?
You can, and a lot of relationship work starts that way. One person examining their own responses often changes the shape of the whole pattern. Your partner may join later or may not, and neither of you will be asked to persuade the other.
Do you work with couples right across Merseyside?
Yes. Because we meet online, it makes no difference whether you're in the city itself or out towards Bootle, Crosby or the Wirral. You can join the same call from one room or from two, and the connection is the same wherever on Merseyside you happen to live.
How soon can my partner and I start relationship counselling in Liverpool?
Usually within a week or two. I work online from Hove, so Liverpool couples do not join a waiting list. We start with a free fifteen-minute call to check the fit, then book a first session at a time that suits you both, whether you are in Allerton, Aigburth or nearer the waterfront.
How much does couples counselling cost, and how does it compare to NHS support in Liverpool?
Couples usually take the ninety-minute session at £100, as relationship work benefits from the extra time, though sixty minutes is £80. NHS Talking Therapies Liverpool leans towards individual support, so many couples come privately instead. The opening fifteen-minute consultation is free, with no pressure to continue.
Can you work with us if my partner spends time away from Liverpool?
Yes. As sessions are online, one of you can join from home in Wavertree and the other from wherever work takes them, and we still meet together. Evenings often suit once the day winds down, and I hold a regular slot so it stays a steady fixture for you both.
Online Relationship Counselling in Liverpool, 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 North West: Warrington, Preston, Chester. See all of North West.
Related work in Liverpool: counselling and therapy, trauma counselling and addiction counselling.
If you would like to read more first, I have written about the Imago dialogue for couples.
Within reach of Sussex? relationship counselling is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.