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Online Relationship Counselling · Swansea
Online Relationship Counselling in Swansea
Online relationship counselling 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
Relationship Counselling 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
What brings people in Swansea to counselling?
Swansea has a way of looking like an easy place to live. The Gower peninsula is half an hour out, the bay is right there, and people assume that being unhappy here must mean you are doing something wrong. Meanwhile one of you is on a rota at Morriston Hospital and the other works days, and you have not had a whole weekend together since June. Around Sketty, Killay and Gorseinon there are households running like well-managed businesses, with everything covered and nothing said. When the pressure finally does come out, it comes out sideways, in a remark about the dishwasher carrying three months behind 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 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: the main relationship counselling page sets out the methods, the practical side covers the practicalities, and my BACP 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.
Swansea is an online location, because the room Bradley works from is in Hove. For a couple, video takes away the logistics that usually stop this from happening at all: two schedules, one journey, somebody to mind the children. You can sit together or dial in from different places, which helps when one of you is on a late. Individual sessions are just as available, and many people start alone.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can relationship counselling in Swansea 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 Swansea
Why people in Swansea come for relationship counselling
People here come to relationship work at every stage and for very different reasons. Students in Brynmill trying to work out whether a first serious relationship is supposed to feel like this. Parents in their forties who cannot remember a conversation that was not about logistics. Somebody on their own, unsure whether the problem is the marriage or their own flat mood. The method is much the same in each case. We slow down the exchanges that go wrong, find what each person is protecting, and put words to the request hiding inside the complaint. Where drinking has become part of the household routine it gets named plainly, and Barod runs the substance use services for Swansea if that needs its own attention. Swansea Mind is a further local option. Through the NHS in Wales, your GP is the route into local mental health support.
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 Relationship Counselling in Swansea: common questions
How does a couple get started?
With a free 15-minute call, which either of you can arrange. It is a brief conversation about what has been happening and how the sessions would work. Weekly appointments usually begin within a week or two. Nothing needs a referral, and there is no list to join.
Does it cost more when two of us attend?
The fee goes by the appointment rather than the number of people: £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes, £120 for 120 minutes. Two people often use the 90-minute slot so that neither has to rush. There is nothing to pay for that initial 15-minute call.
What is available on the NHS in Swansea?
In Wales the referral runs through your GP into the local primary mental health support service, so start with the surgery rather than an online form. Swansea Mind works across the city. If you need to talk to somebody quickly, CALL is free on 0800 132 737.
One of us works a hospital rota. Can the appointment move week to week?
It can. A settled weekly time is easier to protect, but where a rota rotates the slot can be set a block at a time instead. Because there is no travelling involved, an hour between shifts is usable in a way it would not otherwise be.
I feel guilty complaining when we live somewhere this nice. Is that daft?
It is very common and not daft at all. A beautiful setting does not stop a marriage going quiet, and feeling that you have no right to be unhappy simply adds a second problem on top of the first. Nobody here will tell you to count your blessings.
We live out towards Gower - can we still do couples work?
Yes. Because sessions are by secure video, the distance from the city makes no difference. You and your partner can join together from home along the Gower coast or from the city itself, without either of you facing a drive to an appointment.
How soon can my partner and I start relationship counselling in Swansea?
Usually within a week or two. I am not in Swansea in person, my room is in Hove, but I work with couples right across the bay by secure video. We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, then set up your first full session at a time that suits you both.
What are your couples fees, and how do they compare with NHS support in Swansea?
Couples sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes or £120 for two hours, after a free 15-minute chat. Relationship help through Swansea Bay health board can mean a wait, so many couples prefer to begin privately and promptly online.
Can we join couples sessions separately if one of us is out on Gower?
Yes. Sessions run by secure video, so you can sit together or join from different places when one of you is on Gower or in Mumbles and the other in town. I also offer evening appointments, which helps couples working around Swansea's docks and campuses.
Online Relationship Counselling 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.
Related work in Swansea: counselling and therapy, trauma counselling and addiction counselling.
You may also find it useful to read about the Imago dialogue for couples.
For anyone near the coast, the same relationship counselling runs in person in Brighton. Every area covered is listed separately.