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Online Trauma Counselling · Dudley
Online Trauma Counselling in Dudley
Online trauma counselling for Dudley, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Dudley, from the town centre and the castle to the streets around the Black Country Living Museum, 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 Dudley
Trauma Counselling for Dudley, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Dudley: from the town centre and the castle to Brierley Hill, Sedgley and Netherton
- Known for
- Dudley Castle, the Black Country Living Museum and the Clent Hills
- Region
- Midlands (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 Dudley
Why people in Dudley get in touch
Trauma in Dudley is seldom presented as trauma. It arrives as a bad back, a short fuse, or twenty years of never sleeping properly. An accident at a works. A childhood in Sedgley that nobody ever unpicked. Something that happened, after which everyone carried on as though it had not. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm ran at 102.8 per 100,000 in 2023/24, beneath the England average of 117 per 100,000, and a figure like that counts a crisis point rather than the years that led up to one. The Black Country Living Museum keeps the old trades visible. What people carried home from that world usually stayed indoors.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Dudley
Brierley HillSedgleyNethertonGornalKingswinfordCoseleyQuarry BankLyeWoodsettonHolly Hall
Wherever you are in Dudley, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Dudley
Official figures for Dudley, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 102.8 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).
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.
Rather than say the same thing on every page, the substance lives on trauma counselling in detail, with session lengths and fees for the practical questions and how to check my registration for registration and ethics.
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.
This work is done online by secure video, as there is nowhere in Dudley to attend and Bradley is based in Hove. For trauma, the distance is often useful. You sit somewhere that already feels safe, you decide what appears in shot, and you can end a session yourself at any moment without asking anyone first. Nothing about it puts you in an unfamiliar building with a stranger. Appointments can also be spread out when you want breathing space between them.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
What does trauma counselling 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 Dudley
Why people in Dudley come for trauma counselling
There is no requirement to tell the story. Trauma counselling here is paced and led entirely by you, and the Human Givens Rewind Technique is used because it lets a memory be processed without you putting it into words. Nothing is dragged out of anybody. The first stretch of work stays firmly in the present: what your body is doing now, what triggers it, how sleep and startle and temper have been running, and what already helps even slightly. Only once that is solid does anything move towards the memory, at a speed you set, with the decision to stop treated as sound judgement rather than reluctance. Since no single local team is named for this town, the NHS route is the national NHS Talking Therapies finder, which accepts self-referrals across England and can assess trauma and route it onwards. Where symptoms are severe, your GP is a sensible early call as well.
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 Dudley
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Dudley, 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.
Dudley questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Dudley: common questions
Do I have to go over it before anything can happen?
No, and that is deliberate. The Human Givens Rewind Technique lets the memory be worked through without a spoken account, so you decide what is said and what is left alone. Most people give an outline of a line or two, and that is entirely sufficient to work with.
Which NHS route should I use for trauma when nothing local is named?
The national NHS Talking Therapies finder is the self-referral route across England. It points you to the service covering your postcode, which can assess trauma and direct it onwards. Where symptoms are severe, contacting your GP at the same time is a reasonable thing to do.
How soon could I start, and what will it cost?
Privately there is usually much less waiting than on an NHS list, and the free 15-minute consultation can normally be arranged quickly. Sessions themselves are £80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min and £120 / 120 min, with no obligation to commit to a set number of them.
I was hurt at work years ago and got no help at the time. Does that still count?
It counts. A great many people in this borough handled something serious by going back the following week, because that was simply what happened then. Time passing does not settle it, and an old injury that still wakes you at night is a fair thing to bring.
The house is full and the walls are thin. How do we manage that?
Headphones keep the other half of the conversation completely inaudible, which solves more than people anticipate. Beyond that, timing helps, and so does a parked car. Where the house is never reliably quiet, the work is shaped so that very little needs saying aloud at all.
Is my privacy protected in online sessions?
Yes. Sessions are confidential and you join from a private space of your own choosing, with no clinic or waiting room. For something as personal as trauma, that privacy is often reassuring, and nothing you share is ever passed on.
How do I begin online trauma counselling in Dudley?
We start with a free 15-minute consultation, held online, so you can sense how we might work before deciding. Dudley 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 Dudley, and can I use the NHS?
This is private work: £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 the longer sessions allow. NHS help is available through a Dudley GP referral, though waits vary.
Would online trauma sessions suit me in Dudley, and can we meet in the evening?
Many people find video steadier for trauma, joining from home rather than piecing together a bus journey across town. The room is in Hove, so Dudley is online only. Evening and out-of-hours times can often be arranged around work.
Online Trauma Counselling in Dudley, 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: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham. See all of Midlands.
People who come for trauma counselling in Dudley often also look at anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy.
Within reach of Sussex? trauma counselling is offered in the room in Hove, where the room is as well as online; see the full list of areas.