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Online Trauma Counselling · Edinburgh
Online Trauma Counselling in Edinburgh
Online trauma counselling for Edinburgh, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Edinburgh, from the Old Town and New Town 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 Edinburgh
Trauma Counselling for Edinburgh, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Edinburgh: from the Old Town and New Town to Leith, Morningside and Portobello
- Known for
- The castle, Arthur's Seat and the Royal Mile
- Region
- Scotland (Scotland)
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Edinburgh
Why people in Edinburgh reach out
Edinburgh balances a historic capital with a high-pressure professional, financial and festival life, and behind the elegant facades sit some of the highest living costs in Scotland. The intensity of work, study and the city's seasonal crowds can make it hard to find space for yourself.
Edinburgh wears two faces at once: the medieval closes and wynds tumbling down from the castle in the Old Town, and the ordered Georgian terraces of the New Town below. Life here runs between them. Office workers in the financial district around St Andrew Square, students filling the pubs of the Southside, and families walking the sands at Portobello all share a city that swells enormously each August when the Festival and Fringe arrive. The tourist crowds, the steep cost of a flat in Marchmont or Stockbridge, and the long professional hours in law, finance and government can leave residents feeling they are performing in a city that is always on show. Behind the elegant frontages, plenty of people are quietly worn out.
Capital-city life is exhilarating and exhausting at once, with time and privacy always short; an hour that comes to you is often what makes therapy possible.
Home to the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (NHS Lothian), Edinburgh is also one of the UK's largest financial centres, which shapes a high-pressure professional and student population.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Edinburgh
Old TownNew TownLeithMorningsidePortobelloStockbridgeBruntsfieldMarchmontCorstorphineNewington
Wherever you are in Edinburgh, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The trauma counselling itself
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.
The approach is the same wherever you live, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods, what each session covers and fees, on the main trauma counselling page and on how I work.
How online sessions work
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link held to the same strict BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, you join each session from any private space using a phone, tablet or laptop, no software to install, no waiting room and no journey at either end.
Edinburgh has more counselling and NHS mental health provision than most of Scotland, yet waits for talking therapy through NHS Lothian can still stretch on, and a busy diary rarely leaves room to travel across town for an appointment. Because these sessions happen by secure video, they reach any flat or quiet room in the city. I work from Hove on the south coast of England, seeing clients across the whole UK online.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
How online trauma counselling in Edinburgh can help
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 Edinburgh
Why people in Edinburgh come for trauma counselling
Difficult past experiences can stay with us long after they are over, surfacing as sleeplessness, a constant edge, or moments that pull you straight back. In a busy, high-achieving city like Edinburgh, there is often little room to stop and tend to them, and the pressure to keep functioning can bury them deeper. Working online, at a pace you set, I offer a careful and confidential space to approach what happened without being overwhelmed by it. Sessions come to a private room in your own flat by secure video, which many people find safer and steadier than sitting in an unfamiliar clinic.
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 Edinburgh
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Edinburgh, your GP can refer you to NHS psychological therapies, and you can find trusted self-help through NHS inform. You can find support through NHS inform; for confidential listening support, Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 24 on 111 for urgent mental health support. Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87, and the Samaritans are on 116 123.
Edinburgh questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Edinburgh: common questions
Can I get online trauma counselling if I live in Edinburgh?
Yes. I work with people right across Edinburgh, from the Old Town and New Town outwards, and anywhere else in Scotland, by secure video, no need to travel to Hove, and just as confidential as meeting in the room.
Do I have to describe what happened in detail?
No. Methods like the Human Givens Rewind let us process a memory without you reliving it or even speaking the detail aloud.
Is it safe to do trauma work online?
Yes, when it is paced carefully. We go slowly, keep you grounded, and you stay in control of what we approach and when.
What if I get overwhelmed during a session?
We build in ways to settle and pause, and never move faster than feels safe. Being in your own space online can make that easier.
I have kept going for years, why would past events surface now?
It is common for old experiences to resurface when life finally slows or when the pressure of holding everything together eases. That does not mean anything has gone wrong. We would go at your pace, safely and privately, by secure video from your own home in Edinburgh.
How soon can trauma counselling start online in Edinburgh?
We begin with a free 15-minute consultation and usually arrange a first session within a week or two. Trauma work needs to move at your pace, so there is no rush, but there is also no local waiting list, and you start from home.
How do your trauma counselling fees compare to services in Edinburgh?
NHS Lothian and some charities offer free trauma support but often with waits, while private practice varies. My fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, with a free 15-minute consultation, and no queue to begin.
Can trauma sessions be held privately by video from home in Edinburgh?
Yes. Many people prefer processing trauma in the safety of their own space rather than a clinic across the city. Secure video sessions, including evenings, let you work from a quiet room in Newington or Leith, with the door closed and no journey afterwards.
Can I have counselling in Edinburgh if I can't get time off work?
Yes. Sessions run by secure video, so you can join from home, from a parked car, or from a quiet room on a lunch break anywhere in the city. There's no journey across Edinburgh to fit in, which makes a regular appointment far easier to keep.
Do you have a room in Edinburgh?
No. I'm based in Hove in the south of England and work with people across Scotland and the wider UK entirely online. For Edinburgh clients that means video sessions rather than a room in the city, which many people find more private and easier to arrange.
Online Trauma Counselling in Edinburgh, 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 Scotland: Glasgow, Dunfermline, Falkirk. See all of Scotland.
All counselling & therapy in Edinburgh: Addiction · Substance Use · Drinking Problems · Anxiety · Depression · Relationship · Counselling & Therapy · Psychotherapy.
Closer to the Sussex coast? The same trauma counselling is available in person in Brighton & Hove, or see all in-person areas.