Intrusive memories
Support for flashbacks, nightmares and re-experiencing.
Online Trauma Counselling · Gloucester
Online trauma counselling for Gloucester, by secure video, wherever you are. Finding a counsellor who genuinely fits matters more than how close they are. Online trauma counselling lets clients in Gloucester work with me from the comfort and privacy of home, by secure video.
Known for the cathedral, the historic docks and the quays, Gloucester is a place of real character, with clients coming to me from from the historic docks and the city centre to Barton, Tredworth and Quedgeley. Wherever you are across it, online counselling means experienced support without the travel, fitted around work, family and everything else.
My room is in Hove, but the work reaches a great deal further. By secure video I support people throughout the UK, Gloucester included, with the same care and attention as an in-person session.
I also work online with people elsewhere in South West, including Cheltenham, Worcester, Swindon.
If you would still prefer to meet in person and can travel to the Sussex coast, you are welcome to, but for most clients in Gloucester online trauma counselling is the natural and effective choice.
Life in Gloucester
Gloucester is a working cathedral city on the Severn with a proud but pressured industrial past, and parts of the city carry real deprivation. Insecure work, money worries and the everyday grind can build into stress and low mood that often go unspoken.
Where the old industries have gone, the pressure of insecure work and tight finances tends to fall heaviest on the people least likely to ask for help. Working online keeps support discreet and within reach, however stretched the week.
What I help with
Support for flashbacks, nightmares and re-experiencing.
Help when your nervous system is stuck on high alert.
For when you cope by shutting down.
Healing the wound that drives the habit.
Reaching the quieter, accumulated hurts.
Working always at a pace that is led by you.
Why online works in Gloucester
In a town that prizes getting on with things, online sessions let you seek support privately, with no one to pass on the way in.
Many people find it easier to open up from their own sofa than in an unfamiliar room. From Gloucester, that comfort is part of the work, not a compromise.
Rather than waiting for a local appointment to come free, an online slot often means you can start the work much sooner.
The technology fades within minutes. What remains is a real, attentive conversation, the same one we'd have sitting in the room together.
Once the practical side is sorted, this is what the work looks like. I am integratively trained and draw on approaches designed specifically for trauma, including the Human Givens Rewind Technique, a calm, non-intrusive method that returns a memory to ordinary recall. You do not have to relive the detail or even speak it aloud for this to work.
All it takes at your end is a private spot where you can talk freely, a device with a camera, and a steady signal. We begin with a free fifteen-minute call, then I send a link you join at our agreed time each week.
Read more about online counselling, about trauma counselling, or about my methods, sessions and fees.
Start the conversationMy online counselling sits alongside the help available locally, and it can be worth knowing what else is there. In Gloucester, you can refer yourself directly to Let's Talk, the Gloucestershire NHS Talking Therapies service for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed. You can also find your nearest service through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
Private sessions with me usually mean you can start sooner, stay with the same counsellor throughout, and work at greater depth and pace; the two can run side by side, and I'm glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
This practice is not a crisis service. If you or someone else 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.
Gloucester questions
Yes. I work with clients in Gloucester and right across the UK by secure video. You don't need to live near Brighton or Hove; online trauma counselling brings the same care to wherever you are.
Very little: a private space where you won't be interrupted, a laptop, tablet or phone, and a reasonable internet connection. After a free fifteen-minute call, I send a secure link you click at our agreed time.
For most people, yes. Online therapy can be just as effective as meeting face to face, and many find it easier to open up from home. Everything is held with the same strict confidentiality as in-person work.
Yes. Sessions run on a secure, encrypted video link, and everything we discuss is held to the same strict BACP confidentiality as work done in person. All you need at your end is a private space.
The simplest first step from Gloucester is a free fifteen-minute call. There's no obligation, just a chance to ask anything and see how it feels.
Prefer to meet face to face? See counselling across Brighton, Hove & Sussex, or read more about how online counselling works and about trauma counselling in depth.