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Online Trauma Counselling · Harrogate
Online Trauma Counselling in Harrogate
Online trauma counselling for Harrogate, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Harrogate, from the Stray and the centre to the streets around the Valley Gardens, 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 Harrogate
Trauma Counselling for Harrogate, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Harrogate: from the Stray and the centre to Starbeck, Bilton and Pannal
- Known for
- The Stray, the Valley Gardens and the spa heritage
- Region
- Yorkshire & North East (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 Harrogate
What brings people in Harrogate to counselling?
Trauma is no respecter of postcodes, and in Harrogate it is often extremely well hidden. It might be an assault years ago that was never reported. A birth that went badly at Harrogate District Hospital. A road accident, a bereavement that arrived without warning, a childhood behind a respectable front door. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm ran at 101.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, under the England average of 117, which measures hospital contact and not much else. What people notice is rarely the memory itself: it is the sleep that stops at the same hour, the startle, the sudden avoidance of a road through Starbeck or Killinghall, the flatness.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Harrogate
StarbeckBiltonPannalJennyfieldHarlow HillOatlandsHookstoneKillinghallKnaresboroughHigh Harrogate
Wherever you are in Harrogate, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Harrogate
Official figures for Harrogate, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 101.2 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 would we do together in trauma counselling?
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: the main trauma counselling page sets out the methods, the practical side covers the practicalities, and professional standards and registration covers accountability.
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.
Nobody has to travel and nobody has to sit in a waiting area. Sessions come by secure video into whichever room you feel safest in, because there is no in-person option outside Hove. That suits trauma work particularly well. You control the space and the door, and afterwards you are already at home rather than crossing a town where you might be recognised while you are still open. Pace is never fixed in advance.
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 Harrogate
Why people in Harrogate come for trauma counselling
It is worth stating at the outset that you will not be required to describe the event. The dread of having to narrate the worst thing that ever happened, to someone you have only just met, is what keeps most people away, and this work does not ask it. The Human Givens Rewind Technique addresses the alarm response your nervous system attached to what happened, not the account of it, and it is done while you remain calm and fully in charge from start to finish. What we discuss is how it is affecting you now: sleep, reactions, the situations you have quietly stopped entering, the closeness that has become difficult. You set the pace and can call a stop at any moment. For accompanying anxiety or low mood, NHS Talking Therapies accepts self-referrals in England through the national finder.
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 Harrogate
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Harrogate, 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.
Harrogate questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Harrogate: common questions
Do I need to talk through what happened for this to work?
You do not. The Rewind Technique is designed to work without a spoken account, and I will not ask you for detail you have not chosen to give. Plenty of people go through the whole piece of work having said very little about the event itself.
What does the Human Givens Rewind Technique involve?
A calm, paced process that reduces the alarm attached to a memory while you stay relaxed and aware the entire time. Nothing is relived and nothing is forced. Afterwards the memory is still yours but it stops firing the alarm, and it usually takes only a few sessions.
I have kept this to myself for decades. Is it too late to do something now?
It is not. Time does not make an unresolved alarm response permanent, and people often come to this in their fifties or sixties having managed around it since childhood. The length of time it has been carried does not determine how long the work takes.
What are the session rates for this kind of work?
£80 / 60 min, £100 / 90 min or £120 / 120 min, with a free 15-minute consultation beforehand so you can ask about the method before committing. Rewind work often needs the 90-minute length so nothing has to be hurried. You pay session by session and can pause at will.
Is there an NHS route in Harrogate if I want one alongside this?
For the anxiety, sleep problems and low mood that come with trauma, NHS Talking Therapies takes self-referrals through the national finder, as the town has no separately branded team. If you ever feel unsafe rather than distressed, a GP or NHS 111 is the right contact that day.
Can something from years ago still be worked on?
Yes. Trauma doesn't have an expiry date, and it's common for old experiences to keep affecting the present. It's never too late to work on them. We'd go at a pace that feels safe, with no pressure to open more than you're ready to.
How soon can I start trauma counselling online in Harrogate?
We begin with a free 15-minute consultation, usually within a week, then a first video session at a careful pace. Working from Hove across Harrogate means no waiting list and no town-centre trip when you're feeling vulnerable; the session simply comes to you.
How much is trauma counselling, and why not just use the NHS in Harrogate?
You can; Harrogate District Hospital and NHS talking therapies are free, though often with a wait. My fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for two hours. Longer sessions can suit trauma work, and privately you'd start sooner at your own pace.
Is trauma work safe and private done online rather than in person in Harrogate?
For many people, yes. Meeting privately from home in Harrogate, where nothing is visible to anyone locally, can feel safer for trauma work than a consulting room. I work from Hove by secure video, and we can use 90-minute or evening sessions to settle and close gently.
Online Trauma Counselling in Harrogate, 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 Yorkshire & North East: Leeds, York. See all of Yorkshire & North East.
Close to this in Harrogate, there is 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.