Farnborough · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Psychotherapy for Farnborough
If you're in Farnborough and the same patterns keep returning, in relationships, at work or in how you treat yourself, I offer longer, open-ended psychotherapy by secure video. I'm a BACP-registered counsellor and a UKCP student member, still completing my psychotherapy training. My only room is in Hove, so from Farnborough this work happens online.
The practical facts for Farnborough
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Farnborough by car
- About 85 minutes with clear roads (71.8 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Farnborough North, change at Gatwick Airport for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free NHS talking therapy
- NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire, 023 8038 3920
- 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.
When a short course helped, and then it came back
Perhaps you had sessions with NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire back when it was called italk, and they helped.
The worry eased or the low patch lifted. Then, a year or two later, something familiar was back: the same kind of partner, the same freeze when someone senior is displeased, the same quiet certainty that you're not quite enough. Farnborough is a centre of aviation, engineering and technology, where problems are expected to have a cause you can trace and a fix you can test, and feelings rarely behave like that. You might be able to explain your history in careful detail and still watch it steer what you do. Psychotherapy is slower than the help you had before. It gives time to the parts of the story a short course couldn't reach, and the aim is to start noticing the pattern while it is happening, week by week, as well as afterwards.
What a longer piece of work looks like on video
Psychotherapy with me has no fixed end. We meet weekly at a set time, follow what comes up, and stop every so often to review whether it is still useful, and you can finish whenever you choose. It might last a few months or a good deal longer. From Farnborough the whole of this happens on screen, so the practical question is where you'll sit. If you work from home, the laptop that has held your spreadsheets, drawings or code all day is also where you'll meet me, and a different room or chair helps mark the hour as your own. If you've been through a bad spell that brought you to the 24/7 Surrey and Borders crisis number or the Aldershot Safe Haven, longer work can give you a steadier weekly place once the worst has passed. If you're under an NHS care team, we'd agree at the outset whether, and how, they hear from me. The wellbeing centre Andover Mind runs for Hart and Rushmoor offers recovery-focused groups, and a group alongside one-to-one work can suit some people well.
What can bring someone in Farnborough to deeper work
After italk, a pattern returned
You had NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire when it still went by italk. It helped, and now the same difficulty has come back wearing different clothes.
Fault-finding that stops at feelings
In a town built on engineering and technology, you may be trained to find the fault and fix it, and frustrated that your own reactions won't yield to the method.
Steadier ground after a crisis
If you've rung the 24/7 crisis line or walked into the Aldershot Safe Haven, weekly psychotherapy can offer something regular once the immediate danger has passed.
When the youngest leaves home
Once your last child finishes at The Sixth Form College and moves on, questions about who you are outside parenting can surface for the first time in years.
Public health figures for the area
These are local authority figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. "Similar to England" means the difference is not statistically significant. The figures describe a whole population over a period, not any one person.
Free and low-cost support for Farnborough
Psychotherapy can sit beside free help in North East Hampshire. NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire is a free service for anxiety and low mood that you can contact yourself. Local residents can register for groups at the Hart and Rushmoor Wellbeing Centre. If a loss to suicide is part of what you carry, Cruse Bereavement Support offers its Support After Suicide Service across Hampshire.
- Free NHS talking therapyNHS Talking Therapies Hampshire023 8038 3920Free 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 itInclusion Recovery Hampshire0300 124 0103Free and confidential.
For gambling, the National Gambling Helpline is free, day or night, on 0808 8020 133 (NHS gambling support).
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.
In this area you can also text HANTS to 85258. Locally, the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mental Health Crisis Helpline is on 0800 915 4644. Local drop-in crisis support: Aldershot Safe Haven (check opening times before you go).
What people in Farnborough ask before starting
Can I have open-ended psychotherapy from Farnborough entirely by video?
Yes. Weekly psychotherapy depends on a slot you can keep, and an 85-minute drive each way to Hove would make that hard to hold, so video is the realistic way to do it. The working relationship between us can still build on screen. If you ever want a single session in Hove, that's possible, though never expected.
Is italk the same as NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire?
Yes. NHS Talking Therapies Hampshire was previously called italk, and it's run by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You can refer yourself on 023 8038 3920 for anxiety or low mood. Psychotherapy with me is a different shape of work: open-ended, weekly, and aimed at patterns that have lasted years. You can use one after the other, or both.
How do I start psychotherapy from Farnborough, and is there a wait?
Book the free 15-minute call and say a little about the pattern that keeps coming back. I'll tell you honestly whether I have a weekly slot now or when one is likely. If we go ahead, we fix a regular time that holds up around your working week, and the first few sessions are about understanding what you want from the work.
Does it matter that you're a UKCP student member and not UKCP registered?
You should know it, which is why I say it plainly. My registration is with BACP, as a counsellor, and I have more than 25 years' experience. My psychotherapy training isn't finished, so with UKCP I'm a student member and not yet registered. If full UKCP registration matters to you, it's fine to choose someone who has it.
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.
Open-ended work begins with one short call
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.