Intrusive memories
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Online Trauma Counselling · Norwich
Online trauma counselling for Norwich, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Norwich, from the cathedral and the centre to the streets around the castle, with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.

In and around Norwich
Life in Norwich
Trauma in Norwich is often carried a long way from wherever it happened. People arrive for a degree at the University of East Anglia, for work, or to be somewhere quieter, and bring with them things they have never once described. Others carry something local: an assault in the lanes, a collision on a rural road, an emergency that ended at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Emergency hospital admissions for self-harm across the area ran at 129.9 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. What such a measure misses is the ordinary version, months of poor sleep in Eaton or Sprowston and a startle response that has never reset.
Areas covered
Wherever you are in Norwich, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
Official figures for Norwich, for context rather than as a description of you.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 129.9 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Reviewed June 2026.
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 method travels; only the geography changes. everything on trauma counselling explains it properly, the practical side answers the practical questions, and my BACP registration shows how the practice is held to account.
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.
Everything happens online by secure video, from Hove. Trauma makes unfamiliar buildings and unknown corridors much harder than they sound, and this arrangement removes both from the picture. You are in your own space with the door as you want it, and you can stop a call yourself without explaining why. Continuity matters here as well: if you leave the city at the end of a course or a contract, the work does not restart with somebody new.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat 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.
Trauma Counselling in Norwich
Trauma counselling is client-led and paced, and it never requires you to relive the event. Bradley uses the Human Givens Rewind Technique, which works with the memory itself rather than with your description of it, and which is carried out while you stay calm rather than distressed. No detailed account is needed, and there is no pressure whatever to disclose. What comes first is stabilisation: sleep, a dependable way of returning to the present, and a clear look at what the week is currently costing you. Only then, and only by agreement, is the memory approached at all. Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies takes self-referrals through NHS Talking Therapies and covers trauma symptoms at assessment, and Norfolk and Waveney Mind offers local support between appointments. Neither route excludes the other, and holding an NHS referral while working privately is perfectly ordinary.
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 callMy online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Norwich, you can refer yourself directly to Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
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:
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.
Norwich questions
There is, because talking about it is not what this depends upon. The method used works with how the memory is held rather than with an account of it. You can work on sleep, startle, avoidance and concentration while keeping the content entirely to yourself.
Only as background. The 2023/24 figure sits above the England average of 117 per 100,000 and counts admissions across this area rather than the reasons behind them. It is included because it is verified. Your own situation is not described by any area statistic.
Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies assesses trauma symptoms as part of a self-referral, which needs no GP letter in England, and directs onward where more specialised help is called for. Waits vary. Running private work alongside that referral is common and creates no conflict.
They are identical to any other work here: £80 an hour, £100 for ninety minutes, £120 for two hours. Some people prefer ninety minutes so a piece of work can be finished unhurried. Everything starts with a free 15-minute conversation before any booking is made at all.
Because distance changes the surroundings and not the way a memory is stored. Moving often reduces the reminders enough to feel like progress, which makes the return of symptoms more confusing when it comes. Nothing has gone wrong. It means the memory itself has not yet been dealt with.
Yes. It removes the long journey that specialist support can otherwise mean here, and lets you do difficult work from a familiar, safe space. We go gently, at your pace, and I make sure each session settles before we close, wherever in Norfolk you are.
We can begin gently and at your pace. I work online from Hove with people across Norwich and rural Norfolk, so distance and waiting rooms stop mattering. A free 15-minute consultation comes first, then we set a start time that feels right rather than rushed.
The NHS offers trauma-focused therapy through your GP, though referral routes and waits vary across Norfolk. My private sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 and £120 for 120, with a free 15-minute consultation, so you need not wait on a referral to start.
Online spares you the long Norfolk drive and lets you stay in a private space you trust, which many find steadying with difficult material. There is no waiting room. We can use longer 90 or 120-minute sessions and evening times to give the work more room.
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 East of England: Cambridge, Ipswich, King's Lynn. See all of East of England.
If trauma counselling is not quite what you are looking for, anxiety counselling, addiction counselling and psychotherapy may fit better in Norwich.
If you can reach the south coast, this work is also done face to face in Brighton — all in-person areas are listed here.