Weybridge · online by video, with the Hove room for occasional sessions
Trauma therapy for Weybridge
If something frightening, sudden or long-lasting keeps coming back in your sleep or in the way your body braces, trauma counselling is a place to work with it slowly. For people in Weybridge I work by secure video, so you can stay somewhere you already feel safe. You decide what we look at and how fast, and stopping is allowed whenever you need it.
If you are thinking about ending your life, call 999 or the Samaritans free on 116 123, day or night. More urgent help is on this page.
The practical facts for Weybridge
- Where sessions happen
- A private room at Intergen House, 65-67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, or secure video.
- From Weybridge by car
- About 70 minutes with clear roads (57.9 miles); longer at busy times.
- By train
- From Weybridge, change at Clapham Junction for trains towards Brighton and Hove.
- Free NHS talking therapy
- Mind Matters Surrey, 0300 330 5450
- 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 quiet street can still feel unsafe
Trauma doesn't need a dramatic setting, and a pleasant town can make it harder to explain.
In Weybridge it might follow a collision on the way home, a night in the A and E at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, an assault you have never mentioned, or the sudden death of someone close. It can also build up over years, through a childhood spent watching a parent's moods or a relationship where keeping quiet felt safest. A shock at work that colleagues expected you to shrug off can count too. Afterwards, ordinary sounds can land differently: a siren heading towards Chertsey, or a door slammed in the next house. You might startle easily, sleep in fragments, steer clear of certain routes, or go so numb that people assume you're coping. Those reactions are your body staying on guard, and they make sense given what it went through.
Feeling steady first, the memory only when you choose
Trauma work starts in the present. In the first sessions we learn how your body signals that it's being pulled back, and what brings you to now: the weight of your feet, something familiar in your hand, the view from your own window. That steadiness comes before anything else, for as long as it takes. When you say you're ready, we approach what happened in small parts, and the detail stays yours to share or keep. Brainspotting, which uses where your gaze rests to reach what the body is holding, is one way of working that doesn't depend on telling the story. We also look with respect at how you've kept going, whether by staying busy, staying alert, switching off or avoiding certain places, because each of those protected you once. You can pause, slow down or end a session at any moment without explaining. Since we meet on screen, we also plan how each session winds down and what comes next for you, so a hard conversation doesn't run straight into the school run or a work call. If the danger is someone you live with, your safety comes before this work, so please go first to the domestic abuse helpline listed lower down.
Support around the edges of trauma work
When sleep breaks down
If nightmares or broken sleep are wearing you out, the Weybridge Health Centre GPs can look at the medical side while our sessions go at your pace.
Shock underneath the grief
When someone dies without warning, shock can sit beneath the sadness. Cruse Bereavement Support has a Surrey North Area branch that can help alongside our sessions.
When fear spreads into everything
Anxiety or flatness that began after a frightening event is something Mind Matters Surrey can help with, free, by self-referral on 0300 330 5450.
When it overwhelms you at night
Surrey and Borders Partnership keeps a crisis helpline open around the clock on 0800 915 4644, so you don't have to wait for morning or for our next session.
Free and low-cost support for Weybridge
There's no specialist trauma service I can point you to in Elmbridge, so the free help listed here is general, not trauma-specific. Mind Matters Surrey helps with anxiety or low mood that followed a frightening event, Catalyst Community Connections supports wellbeing across West Elmbridge, and Cruse Bereavement Support is there after a sudden death. Private trauma counselling can be added to any of these, or used on its own.
- Free NHS talking therapyMind Matters Surrey0300 330 5450Free NHS talking therapy for anxiety, low mood and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You can refer yourself, with no GP referral needed.
- If drinking or drug use is part of iti-access0300 222 5932Free and confidential.
- Local organisationSearchLight Counselling and Therapy
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 have experienced rape or sexual abuse, at any time in your life, the Rape Crisis 24/7 Support Line is free on 0808 500 2222 for anyone aged 16 or over in England and Wales.
If you need urgent help now
If you need help right now, please don't wait for a session.
Locally, the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS FT Mental Health Crisis Helpline is on 0800 915 4644.
What people in Weybridge ask before starting
Where can someone in Weybridge find free help after something traumatic?
Not from a specialist trauma service I can name, but there is help. When anxiety or low mood follow a frightening event, you can self-refer to Mind Matters Surrey on the NHS. Catalyst Community Connections offers wellbeing support in West Elmbridge, and Cruse Bereavement Support helps after a sudden death. If domestic abuse is part of it, the national helpline listed on this page answers free, day and night.
Does trauma counselling from Weybridge mean telling you everything that happened?
No. On the free 15-minute call, saying that something happened is enough, and the first sessions are about feeling steadier day to day. When we do come to the memory, it can be in small pieces, and some ways of working don't need you to put it into words at all. You stay in control of how much you share, and when.
Is it safe to do trauma counselling by video at home in Weybridge, or should I come to Hove?
Video is usually the better fit from here. Being in your own surroundings may help you feel steadier, and there's no 70-minute drive straight after a difficult hour. Before we start, we'll settle what you'll do once the screen goes dark. If someone at home might overhear, or home is where something happened, tell me so we can weigh up other options first.
It happened years ago. Is it too late for trauma counselling in Weybridge?
No. Trauma doesn't fade on a timetable, and reactions can surface decades later, perhaps after a bereavement or a reminder you didn't expect. Working with something old follows the same careful pattern: steadiness first, then the memory only when you're ready. Whenever you feel able, start with the free 15-minute call; I'll be clear about when a regular time could begin.
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 that asks nothing of you
When you feel ready, a short conversation is the easiest way to see whether we are a good fit. There is no obligation.