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Online Trauma Counselling · Birmingham
Online Trauma Counselling in Birmingham
Online trauma counselling for Birmingham, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Birmingham, from the city centre and the Jewellery Quarter to the streets around the Bullring, 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 Birmingham
Trauma Counselling for Birmingham, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Birmingham: from the city centre and the Jewellery Quarter to Edgbaston, Moseley, Erdington and Handsworth
- Known for
- The Bullring, the canals and the Library of Birmingham
- Region
- Midlands (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- Birmingham Healthy Minds
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Birmingham
What brings people in Birmingham to counselling?
Trauma does not require a headline event. It can be a childhood nobody discussed, a crash on a dual carriageway, a night in the emergency department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, or something at home that was never named again afterwards. This city holds a great many histories carried here from elsewhere, and some of them have never been spoken aloud in this country at all. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm ran at 111 per 100,000 in 2023/24, just under the England average of 117 per 100,000, and a rate like that describes a system rather than a person. What people actually describe is broken sleep, flinching at doors, and walking the long way round one particular street.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Birmingham
Jewellery QuarterEdgbastonMoseleyErdingtonHandsworthDigbethBournvilleKings HeathSelly OakHarborneSutton Coldfield
Wherever you are in Birmingham, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Birmingham
Official figures for Birmingham, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 111 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).
Reviewed June 2026.
What does trauma counselling involve?
Trauma counselling here is gentle and led by you, drawing on methods designed for trauma including the Human Givens Rewind Technique, so a difficult memory is returned to ordinary recall.
Because the work itself is the same wherever you live, the detail sits in one place rather than all of them: everything on trauma counselling sets out the methods, how I work covers the practicalities, and my credentials and registration covers accountability.
What do I need for 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.
This is online work over secure video, since Bradley is in Hove and there is nowhere in the city to attend in person. For trauma the arrangement often helps. You stay in your own space, you choose what sits behind you and what appears on screen, and you can end the call at any second without asking anyone. Control of that kind is not small when it was missing before. Sessions can also be spaced further apart when you want room between them.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What can trauma counselling in Birmingham help with?
Hypervigilance
Help when your nervous system is stuck on high alert.
Numbness and avoidance
For when you cope by shutting down.
Trauma behind addiction
Healing the wound that drives the habit.
Sub-threshold trauma
Reaching the quieter, accumulated hurts.
Feeling safe again
Working always at a pace that is led by you.
Trauma Counselling in Birmingham
Why people in Birmingham come for trauma counselling
The first thing worth saying is that you will not be asked to tell the story. Trauma counselling here is paced and led by you, and the Human Givens Rewind Technique is used precisely because a memory can be processed without being described out loud. Nothing is prised open. We begin in the present instead: what your body does now, what sets it off, how sleep and startle and temper have been behaving, and what already gives you a steady moment. Only once that ground holds do we go near the memory itself, at a speed you set, with stopping treated as sound judgement rather than avoidance. Birmingham Healthy Minds takes self-referrals and can assess and route trauma work through the NHS. Where symptoms are severe, or where sleep and safety have gone badly wrong, your GP is a reasonable early call alongside anything arranged privately.
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 Birmingham
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Birmingham, you can refer yourself directly to Birmingham Healthy Minds 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.
Birmingham questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Birmingham: common questions
Do I have to say out loud what happened to me?
No. The Human Givens Rewind Technique works without you narrating the event, which is exactly why it is used. You decide how much detail is spoken and when it is spoken. A very general outline is usually all that is needed for the work to proceed properly.
Can Birmingham Healthy Minds help with trauma, or is it only for worry and low mood?
It assesses and routes people, trauma included, and self-referral across England means no GP letter is required to begin. Waits vary by season. Where symptoms are severe, speaking to your GP at the same time is sensible rather than dramatic, and neither route rules the other out.
How long do sessions run, and what do they cost?
Sixty minutes is £80, ninety is £100 and two hours is £120. For trauma some people prefer the ninety-minute slot, so there is time to settle at both ends rather than stopping abruptly. The first 15-minute consultation is free and asks nothing about what happened.
My family are in Handsworth and everybody knows everybody. Could anyone find out I am doing this?
No. Sessions are private, held from wherever you choose, and there is no local building anyone might see you entering. Nothing goes to your family, your employer or your community. Confidentiality is bounded only by the usual serious-risk exceptions, and those are explained at the start.
What happens if something surfaces mid-session and I cannot carry on?
We stop, and you are steadied before the call ends, which is part of the method rather than an interruption to it. Nobody is left in the middle of something. The pace belongs to you, and slowing down counts as the work going correctly rather than as a setback.
Is it safe to talk about difficult memories over video?
Yes. Sessions are confidential and move at your pace, and being in your own space can actually help you feel more grounded when discussing hard experiences. Nothing is rushed, and you stay in control of what you share and when.
How do I start online trauma counselling in Birmingham?
We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, arranged online, so you can get a feel for how we might work before committing. Birmingham is served by video from Hove, meaning no travel and no local waiting list, and we then agree a steady, private time together.
What does trauma counselling cost in Birmingham, and is there an NHS route?
This is private work, charged at £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours, with a free 15-minute consultation first. Trauma often needs unhurried time, which longer sessions allow. NHS help is available through a Birmingham GP referral, though waits vary.
Would online trauma sessions suit me in Birmingham, and can we meet in the evening?
Many people find video steadier for trauma work, joining from their own safe space rather than travelling. The room is in Hove, so Birmingham is online only. Evening and out-of-hours times can often be arranged, which helps if daytime hours are taken up by work.
Online Trauma Counselling in Birmingham, 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: Solihull, Coventry, Wolverhampton. See all of Midlands.
Related work in Birmingham: anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same trauma counselling is available in person, in Hove, where the room is, or see every area I cover.