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Online Relationship Counselling · Nottingham
Online Relationship Counselling in Nottingham
Online relationship counselling for Nottingham, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Nottingham, from the centre and the Lace Market to the streets around the castle, 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 Nottingham
Relationship Counselling for Nottingham, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Nottingham: from the centre and the Lace Market to Hyson Green, Sneinton and Beeston
- Known for
- The castle, the Old Market Square and the two universities
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Nottingham
Why do people in Nottingham reach out?
Nottingham keeps a lot of different lives in close quarters. Postgraduates at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University finish their courses and stay on, couples stretch for a first flat in Sherwood or Mapperley, and other people are still renting a room in Lenton with three near-strangers. Relationships here often begin in one of those worlds and then have to survive the move into another. One of you is on a rota that changes every week; the other keeps steady hours in the Lace Market or out at Boots in Beeston. The talking that used to happen without effort stops happening at all. Money runs differently in Radford than it does in West Bridgford, and sometimes that gap runs straight through one kitchen.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Nottingham
Lace MarketHyson GreenSneintonBeestonThe ParkSherwoodMapperleyWest BridgfordRadfordWollatonLenton
Wherever you are in Nottingham, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Nottingham
Official figures for Nottingham, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 95.8 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).
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 12.6% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
24.8% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above 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.
What actually happens in the room is the same everywhere, so it is written up once: see relationship counselling in detail for the methods, the practical side for fees and session lengths, and professional standards and registration if you want to check who you would be working with.
How does meeting by video work in practice?
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 run online, by secure video, wherever you happen to be that week. Bradley works from Hove, so there is nothing to drive to and nobody local to pass afterwards. Couples can join from one sofa, or from two screens when work or study has you in different cities that week. If you share a house in Lenton or Hyson Green, headphones and a shut door are usually enough, and a lunch hour will hold a session without the rest of the household noticing.
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 Nottingham
Why people in Nottingham come for relationship counselling
People come to relationship work in Nottingham for ordinary, unglamorous reasons. The same argument on a loop. A partner who has gone quiet since the money got tight. Something that came out months ago and has never been put down. Sometimes one person's low mood or drinking has become the weather the whole household lives in. Recorded depression on GP registers here stood at 12.6% of patients aged 18 and over in 2024/25, below the England average of 14.3%, which tells you nothing whatever about how heavy one particular flat feels on a Sunday afternoon. The work is slower than most expect. We take a single argument apart and look at what each of you was actually asking for underneath it. Coming alone is fine and common. Where low mood or worry is the larger part of it, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies takes self-referrals; where drink or drugs sit in the middle of things, Nottingham Recovery Network is the local service.
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 Nottingham
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Nottingham, you can refer yourself directly to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire 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.
Nottingham questions
Online Relationship Counselling in Nottingham: common questions
My partner will not come. Is there any point in me booking on my own?
Yes, and it is how a good number of these conversations start. One person changing how they handle a row shifts the row itself. You can work on what you bring to it, what you are willing to accept and what you want, whether or not your partner ever joins a session.
What do sessions cost, and can we split the time between us?
Fees are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, the same whether one of you attends or both. Couples often choose 90 minutes so neither person is watching the clock. There is a free 15-minute consultation first, with no obligation after it.
We are both registered with Nottingham GPs. Would Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Talking Therapies see us as a couple?
That service takes self-referrals from individuals for anxiety and low mood, and it is worth using. It is not set up for relationship work between two partners. Plenty of people run both at once: an NHS course for their own mood, private sessions for what happens between them.
One of us is doing shifts and the other is finishing a degree. Can the times move around?
They can. A slot can be fixed weekly or moved when a rota is published, and evening times exist. What matters more than the hour is that the two of you protect it. A session that keeps being dropped tends to be the argument playing out in the diary.
Can we do this from a shared student house in Lenton without our housemates hearing?
Most people manage it with headphones and a door that shuts. If the walls are thin, a car parked somewhere quiet works, and so does an empty room booked on campus. If you are joining together but from two rooms in the same house, that is workable too.
Can we book a time that works around shift work?
Yes. Because sessions are online, appointments can often be arranged outside the usual nine-to-five, which helps when one or both of you works irregular hours. You join together from a private space at home, so there is no travel to fit around an already awkward rota.
How soon can we start online relationship counselling in Nottingham?
Online relationship counselling in Nottingham has no waiting list. We start with a free 15-minute consultation, and once you and your partner settle on a weekly time, sessions can begin soon after. From Beeston to West Bridgford or Sherwood, the work is arranged entirely by video.
What does relationship counselling cost in Nottingham, and is it available on the NHS?
Nottingham couples can self-refer free to NHS Talking Therapies, though a wait is common. My private fees are £80 for an hour, 100 for 90 minutes and 120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute consultation. Many couples choose private work to start without delay.
Can my partner and I join from different places in Nottingham, and are evening sessions available?
You and your partner do not need to share a screen. One might join from home in Mapperley while the other logs in from the office, and evening slots outside standard hours are often available, which helps couples juggling insecure or shift-based work in the city.
Online Relationship Counselling in Nottingham, 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: Leicester, Derby, Sheffield. See all of Midlands.
Related work in Nottingham: counselling and therapy, trauma counselling and addiction counselling.
There is more on this in my writing: the Imago dialogue for couples.
For anyone near the coast, the same relationship counselling runs in person in Hove, where the room is. Every area covered is listed separately.