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Online Trauma Counselling · Inverness
Online Trauma Counselling in Inverness
Online trauma counselling for Inverness, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Inverness, from the centre and the castle to the streets around the river Ness, 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 Inverness
Trauma Counselling for Inverness, at a glance
- Areas covered online
- All of Inverness: from the centre and the castle to Crown, Hilton and Inshes
- Known for
- The castle, the river Ness and the Highlands beyond
- Region
- Scotland
- Local NHS / support route
- NHS psychological therapies (Scotland)
- Format
- Secure video, UK-wide. In-person also available on the Sussex coast.
Life in Inverness
What is going on for people in Inverness?
Distance shapes how a frightening thing is carried up here. A crash on a single-track road. An accident at work with help a long way off. A sudden death in a family spread across the Highlands. Afterwards people tend to get on with it, because there is no obvious alternative and everyone knows everyone. What surfaces later is quiet and physical: broken sleep, a jolt at a noise, a road towards Smithton or Inshes you take the long way round instead. Some people become watchful, scanning a room without meaning to. Others feel oddly absent from their own lives. None of that is a character flaw.
Areas covered
Neighbourhoods in and around Inverness
CrownHiltonInshesMerkinchDalneighCullodenSmithtonRaigmoreWesthill
Wherever you are in Inverness, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
The local picture in Inverness
Official figures for Inverness, for context rather than as a description of you.
In Highland, the council area covering Inverness, 3.0% of adults reported a low life satisfaction score (4 or below out of 10) in the year ending March 2023, well below the Scotland average of 6.1%. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Year ending March 2023 (2022-23)).
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.
The approach does not change with the postcode, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods and what each session covers, on the trauma counselling page, alongside how sessions run and what they cost and how to check my registration.
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.
Trauma sessions for people in Inverness and across the Highlands happen online by secure video, from Bradley's room in Hove. In a region where specialist help can be hundreds of miles away, that is not a compromise but the thing that makes the work possible at all. There is no long drive home afterwards while you are still settling, and no local waiting room where somebody recognises you. You stay in your own space throughout.
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 Inverness
Why people in Inverness come for trauma counselling
What brings people is the aftermath, not the event itself: a body that stays braced, the same fragments returning at night, a life gradually arranged around avoidance. Everything here is paced by you. Nothing difficult is approached before you can steady yourself reliably, and that groundwork is treated as the substance of the work rather than a preliminary. Where it fits, the Human Givens Rewind Technique is available, and it requires no retelling of what happened; you stay relaxed, you keep control, and it stops the instant you want it to. Sudden loss brings people too, and the Highland drug-misuse death rate averaged 14.6 per 100,000 over 2020-2024, well below the Scotland average of 22.5, on the National Records of Scotland measure. For NHS support, your GP can refer you into psychological therapies, NHS inform explains trauma reactions, Mikeysline works across the Highlands, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
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 Inverness
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Inverness, 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, the Samaritans are on 116 123, and you can text SHOUT to 85258.
Inverness questions
Online Trauma Counselling in Inverness: common questions
Would I have to talk through what happened in detail?
No. You decide what is described and how much, at every stage, and some people say remarkably little about the event. The Rewind Technique works without any retelling at all, which is often exactly why it suits people who cannot face saying it.
What is the cost, and how long does this kind of work take?
Trauma sessions are £80 for sixty minutes, £100 for ninety and £120 for two hours. Focused trauma work is often shorter than people expect, though nothing is promised in advance. The free 15-minute consultation is the place to ask how it might go.
Can I get trauma support on the NHS this far north?
Your GP can refer you into NHS psychological therapies, though provision and waits vary across a region this size. NHS inform gives reliable information meanwhile, Mikeysline supports people locally in the Highlands, and Breathing Space is free on 0800 83 85 87.
In a village this size everyone knows everyone. Will this stay private?
Yes. You are speaking to somebody hundreds of miles away who knows nobody in your community and has no local connections at all. Nothing goes to your GP or anyone else without your say-so, within the usual professional limits explained at the start.
What if opening this up leaves me stranded out here on my own?
That fear is sensible and it shapes how we work. We build the settling skills first, keep sessions contained, and finish in a settled state rather than mid-way through something. If a week is not the right week, we do not start something difficult.
There is no trauma specialist near me in the Highlands, how would this work?
Online work is designed for exactly this. Because we meet by secure video, where you live no longer decides what help you can reach. We would go at your pace, safely and without pressure, from a private space in your own home, however remote, with no long journey involved.
How soon can trauma counselling start online in Inverness?
We begin with a free 15-minute consultation and usually arrange a first session within a week or two. Trauma work moves at your pace, with no waiting list and no round trip of hours, reaching you at home in Inverness or the surrounding Highlands.
How do trauma counselling fees compare with Highland services?
NHS Highland and some charities offer free trauma support, but distance and waits are real barriers here. My private fees are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, with a free 15-minute consultation, and no long drive involved.
Can trauma sessions be held privately by video from a Highland home?
Yes. This is where online work makes the biggest difference. Secure video sessions, evenings included, let you process trauma from the safety of your own home in Inverness or a distant glen, sparing the long drive that specialist help would otherwise mean.
Online Trauma Counselling in Inverness, 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: Aberdeen, Perth. See all of Scotland.
If trauma counselling is not quite what you are looking for, anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy may fit better in Inverness.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Brighton — all in-person areas are listed here.