Ealing · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Psychotherapy for Ealing
When one knot keeps pulling tight in Ealing, whether with a partner, in the office or in the voice you turn on yourself, psychotherapy lets you trace where it began instead of patching it again. It is longer, deeper work. Because my room is in Hove, 93 minutes' drive south, the weekly sessions from W5 happen on secure video, and an occasional visit in person is yours to choose.
The practical facts for Ealing
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Ealing by car
- About 93 minutes with clear roads (76.1 miles); longer at busy times.
- Free NHS talking therapy
- Ealing Talking Therapies, 020 3830 5640
- Fees
- £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90, £120 for 120. The first 15-minute call is free.
- Registration
- BACP registered member, no. 109340 (check the register); UKCP student member in advanced psychotherapy training.
Behind the calm front doors of the Queen of the Suburbs
From the outside, plenty of Ealing looks settled.
The Brentham Garden Suburb, Hanger Hill and the quiet roads off Ealing Common keep the greenery that earned the area its old title. Inside those houses, life is often less orderly. You might be the reliable one at work, catching the Central line in by eight, and still find that every close relationship ends in the same place. You might have studied at the University of West London, built a career, and carried a voice from childhood that tells you none of it counts. Perhaps you work in the creative world around Ealing Studios, where confidence is part of the job and doubt has to stay hidden. Patterns like these rarely shift through willpower or a weekend of reading. They tend to need time, curiosity and a steady relationship in which to look at them.
What deeper work looks like over months
Shorter counselling usually focuses on a present difficulty. Psychotherapy goes further back and further down, asking where a pattern began, what it once protected you from, and why it still runs when it no longer helps. That might be a habit of shrinking yourself around other people, a temper that frightens you, a pull towards partners who aren't available, or a relationship with drink or work that numbs something older. Sessions keep a fixed weekly slot, often across several months, and you set how fast we go. Some weeks are about the past and some are about what happened on Tuesday. I am a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with BACP, and a student member of UKCP, not yet UKCP registered. My approach is integrative, with Internal Family Systems among the influences; you'll find the fuller picture under how I work. Having been through recovery myself, I take long, patient work seriously.
Patterns that bring Ealing people to longer work
The capable one who can't rest
Holding everything together in a major metropolitan centre, keeping every commitment, and finding you can never put the load down, even on a quiet evening in Ealing.
Old family scripts in new houses
A home in Pitshanger or West Ealing can look nothing like the one you grew up in, while the arguments sound exactly the same.
Confidence as a working requirement
In the studio and media work around Ealing Studios, appearing sure of yourself can be part of the job, while private doubt goes unspoken for years.
Low-cost psychodynamic work locally
West London Mind offers Mind Within Counselling, including psychodynamic therapy at low cost for mild to moderate needs, and that can come before or instead of private work.
Free and low-cost support for Ealing
If a longer piece of private work isn't the right fit or the right moment, Mind Within Counselling from West London Mind offers low-cost psychodynamic therapy to adults in the borough. For anxiety and low mood, West London NHS Trust's Ealing Talking Therapies can be approached directly, with no GP letter. Either can come first, and the door to psychotherapy with me stays open afterwards.
- Free NHS talking therapyEaling Talking Therapies020 3830 5640Free NHS talking therapy for anxiety, low mood and related difficulties. You can refer yourself, with no GP referral needed.
- If drinking or drug use is part of itRISE (Recovery Intervention Services Ealing)0800 195 8100Run by Change Grow Live (lead provider). Free and confidential.
- Local organisationEaling Bereft Bereavement Support
- Local organisationMeadow House Hospice bereavement service
- Local organisationEACH Counselling and Support, Jasmine Project (Ealing, women)
- Local organisationBereft Bereavement Support
For gambling, the National Gambling Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 8020 133 (NHS gambling support).
Private counselling with me can run alongside any of these; you do not have to choose one or the other.
If someone at home is hurting, threatening or controlling you, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 2000 247.
If you need urgent help now
If you need help right now, please don't wait for a session.
Locally, the West London NHS Trust 24-hour mental health helpline (Single Point of Access) is on 0800 328 4444. Local drop-in crisis support: Circle (West London Mind children's crisis café) (check opening times before you go).
What people in Ealing ask before starting
How long might a piece of psychotherapy take if I start from Ealing?
There's no fixed length. Longer work usually runs for some months, and sometimes beyond a year, because recurring patterns take time to understand and loosen. We review together every so often, so you're never committed to an open-ended arrangement you didn't choose. You can also decide to stop at any point, and we'd plan an ending together.
Can long-term therapy really work over video from Ealing?
Yes, for most kinds of depth work, as long as you have a private room and a steady connection. A fixed weekly hour from home in Ealing is easier to keep than a 93-minute drive, and consistency matters more in this work than the room. If you find you want to sit face to face at certain points, a session in Hove can be arranged.
Is psychotherapy free on the NHS in Ealing?
Ealing Talking Therapies, part of West London NHS Trust, costs nothing, and self-referral is by phone on 020 3830 5640 if worry or a persistently low mood has taken hold of your days. For longer, lower-cost work, Mind Within Counselling from West London Mind offers psychodynamic therapy for mild to moderate needs. Private psychotherapy with me is open to you before, after or instead.
What's the difference between you and a UKCP registered psychotherapist?
My BACP registration covers both counselling and psychotherapy, I've practised for more than 25 years, and with UKCP I currently hold student membership. That is a student membership, which is different from being on the UKCP register. If UKCP registration matters to you, it's fair to ask about it on our first call, and I'll answer plainly.
How much do sessions cost, and is the first call free?
Sessions are £80 for 60 minutes, £100 for 90 minutes and £120 for 120 minutes, the same in person in Hove or by video. The first 15-minute call is free, with no obligation to book. There is no NHS referral needed to see me privately.
A first call about longer work from Ealing
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.