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Online Trauma Counselling · Cambridge
Online Trauma Counselling in Cambridge
Online trauma counselling for Cambridge, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Cambridge, from the colleges and the centre to the streets around the Backs, 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 Cambridge
Trauma Counselling for Cambridge, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Cambridge: from the colleges and the centre to Mill Road, Cherry Hinton and Chesterton
- Known for
- The colleges, the Backs and the river Cam
- Region
- East of England (England)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Talking Therapies
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Cambridge
Why people in Cambridge get in touch
Trauma in a university city is usually carried alongside something demanding, which is part of what makes it stubborn. It might follow an assault, a road collision, a death, something that happened long before you ever arrived, or a stretch of clinical work at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus that you have never quite put down. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm ran at 106.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000. Most distress never reaches a measure like that. It appears instead as sleep that will not hold, a startle response set too high, and particular streets near Petersfield or Arbury quietly avoided.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Cambridge
Mill RoadCherry HintonChestertonTrumpingtonNewnhamRomseyArburyPetersfieldKings HedgesColeridge
Wherever you are in Cambridge, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Cambridge
Official figures for Cambridge, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 106.2 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 is trauma counselling, in practice?
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 BACP registration covers accountability.
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.
This is online work by secure video from Hove. Trauma makes unfamiliar rooms harder, and a city where the same faces recur across colleges, labs and departments makes anonymity harder still. Working from your own space removes both problems at once. You control the setting, you can end a call without explaining yourself, and continuity holds if you move house, change department or leave the city partway through. That last point matters more than it sounds.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What sort of things do people bring?
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 Cambridge
Why people in Cambridge come for trauma counselling
Trauma counselling here is client-led and slow by design, and it does not ask you to relive anything. Bradley uses the Human Givens Rewind Technique, which works with the way a memory is stored rather than requiring you to describe it, and which is carried out while you stay calm rather than while you are back inside the worst of it. That means no detailed account, and no pressure to disclose more than you choose. Early sessions concentrate on stability instead: sleep, a reliable way back to the present when something intrudes, and an agreement about pace that you can revise whenever you like. NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Talking Therapies takes self-referrals and assesses trauma symptoms, with CPSL Mind offering support alongside whichever route you use. Progress is measured by whether the week has become easier to live in, not by how much you have said.
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 Cambridge
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Cambridge, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough 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.
Cambridge questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Cambridge: common questions
I have never told anybody what happened. Can I still do this work?
Yes. Never having said it aloud is extremely common and is not an obstacle here, because the approach used does not depend on an account being given. You can work on the effects, the sleep, the startle and the avoidance, and keep the content itself entirely to yourself.
Local self-harm admissions were 106.2 per 100,000. Is that relevant to trauma?
Only loosely. The 2023/24 rate sits below the England average of 117 per 100,000 and measures admissions, not causes. It appears here because it is one of very few verified local indicators of acute distress. It tells you nothing about your own situation.
Will the NHS route here handle trauma, or only worry and low mood?
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Talking Therapies assesses trauma symptoms as part of a self-referral, then directs onward where something more specialised is needed. No GP letter is required to begin in England. Plenty of people hold that referral and work privately at the same time.
Is trauma work charged at a higher rate than other counselling?
No, the rates are identical across everything: £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety, £120 for two hours. Some people prefer the ninety-minute format for this particular work, so that a piece can be completed without anyone watching the clock. The first consultation, fifteen minutes, is free.
I am mid-degree and afraid this will derail my work. Should I wait for the vacation?
Waiting is occasionally right and quite often avoidance wearing sensible clothes. Because you set the pace, this can be kept deliberately steady during term and deepened later on. If a stretch is genuinely too loaded, we do stabilising work only and leave the rest until afterwards.
Is it safe to do trauma work online rather than in a room?
For many people, yes. Being in your own familiar space can feel steadier than an unfamiliar clinic, and we go at a pace you control, never rushing. Working from Hove by video, I make sure each session ends in a settled, grounded way before we finish.
How soon can I start online trauma counselling in Cambridge?
We can begin at a pace that feels safe rather than rushed. I work online from Hove with people across Cambridge and the Fens, so there is no clinic queue. A free 15-minute consultation comes first, then we agree a start that suits your week and your readiness.
What are your trauma counselling fees, and can I get this on the NHS in Cambridge?
The NHS offers trauma-focused therapy through your GP, though referral routes and waits vary. My private sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90, or £120 for 120, with a free 15-minute consultation, so you can begin without depending on a referral.
Is online better than in-person trauma counselling for someone in Cambridge?
Online lets you stay in a familiar, private space, which many find steadying when talking about difficult events. There is no waiting room and no journey across the city. We can use longer 90 or 120-minute sessions and evenings if that gives you more room to work.
Online Trauma Counselling in Cambridge, 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 East of England: Peterborough, Norwich. See all of East of England.
People who come for trauma counselling in Cambridge often also look at anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy.
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.