Fleet · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Psychotherapy for Fleet
If you live in Fleet or Church Crookham and keep running into the same pattern, in relationships or in the way you talk to yourself, I offer open-ended psychotherapy by secure video. I'm registered with BACP and hold UKCP student membership, which is not UKCP registration. My only room is in Hove, so from Hart this is online work.
The practical facts for Fleet
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Fleet by car
- About 89 minutes with clear roads (74.6 miles); longer at busy times.
- 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 an old pattern moves to Fleet with you
Fleet is the largest town in Hart, and its streets run on without a break into Church Crookham and Crookham Village, so it is easy to arrive here and feel you have started again.
Perhaps you moved into Elvetham Heath or Edenbrook for more room, or came back to the area after years away. The boxes get unpacked. Some habits come out of them too. Within a year you might notice the same freeze when a manager sounds displeased, the same habit of agreeing to everything and resenting it later, or the same Sunday-afternoon loneliness you felt in the last place. It's tempting to put it down to the old job or the old city. When the pattern turns up again in a quieter suburban life, with fewer things left to blame, that can be unsettling, and it can also be a good moment to ask where it started.
What happens over months of weekly sessions
Psychotherapy with me has no set number of sessions. We keep one regular slot each week, and every so often we stop to ask whether it's still worth doing, so you're never stuck in it. The early weeks are about the pattern as you already know it. After a while it may start to show up between us. You might apologise for taking up the hour, cancel after a week that went well, or work hard at being easy company. When that happens on screen, we can look at it together as it happens, instead of piecing it together from last Tuesday. Your history comes in when it helps explain what you do now, never as homework. Internal Family Systems is useful here, because it treats the people-pleaser or the inner critic as parts of you with a reason for being there. Endings matter in longer work, so when you're ready to stop, we plan the last few sessions together instead of letting them trail off.
Where longer work fits in a Fleet life
The same row in a new house
An argument about being taken for granted that you thought belonged to the old place, now running on its usual loop in a Fleet kitchen.
Ten free sessions, then a gap
Hart Voluntary Action's counselling offers up to 10 free weekly sessions. If those opened up something older that needs longer, open-ended work can pick it up.
When Talk Plus has finished
Talk Plus gives Fleet GP patients free NHS talking therapy for anxiety, low mood and stress. If the same pattern returns after it ends, longer work can look underneath.
Continuity from 89 minutes away
Patterns show themselves over months of the same weekly hour. From a town this far from the room, video is what keeps that rhythm unbroken.
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 Fleet
Longer private work can sit beside Fleet's free help. If your GP surgery is in Fleet, the NHS talking therapies service for anxiety, low mood and stress is Talk Plus. Hart Voluntary Action's 121 Adult Counselling gives Hart adults up to 10 free sessions. If deeper work stirs up more than you can hold between sessions, Fleet is covered by the 24/7 crisis line from Surrey and Borders Partnership, on 0800 915 4644.
- 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.
- Local organisationAndover Mind - Hart and Rushmoor Wellbeing CentreMental health charity.
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 Fleet ask before starting
Can I have long-term psychotherapy from Fleet without ever coming to Hove?
Yes. Hove is about 89 minutes' drive from Fleet, so a weekly trip isn't realistic for work that may last many months. On video, psychotherapy keeps what it needs most: the same hour each week, the same person, and enough continuity for patterns to show themselves. A visit to Hove is offered, never expected.
I've used my 10 free sessions with Hart Voluntary Action. Is psychotherapy the next step?
It might be. Short counselling often eases what's most pressing, and sometimes it also shows you there's something older underneath. If that's what you noticed, open-ended work gives it room. Tell me on the free call what those sessions covered and what was left over, and I'll say honestly whether longer work with me makes sense or whether something else would suit you better.
Are you UKCP-registered?
No, and I'd rather you knew that before you choose. I'm a student member of UKCP, which is not the same as UKCP registration. I'm registered with BACP and have more than 25 years' experience. If full UKCP registration matters for the work you want to do, choosing someone who holds it is a perfectly reasonable decision.
How soon could psychotherapy start from Fleet, and how long does it go on?
On the free 15-minute call I can tell you plainly whether a weekly slot is free now or when one is likely. There's no fixed length: some pieces of work run for a few months and some for much longer, and we review as we go. Pick a time you can protect from the Waterloo trains and school holidays, because regularity matters more here than speed.
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.
Talk about longer work, with no commitment
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.