How online counselling works across North Wales.
Sessions run by secure video or phone. A link arrives beforehand and the session lasts the same fifty minutes it would in a room.
The region is long and thin, and travelling from Anglesey or the Llyn to anywhere with a counsellor can take most of a day. Online removes distance from the decision entirely.
Along the border it works differently but arrives at the same place: Wrexham and Deeside sit close enough to Chester that work and shopping already cross the border, and counselling that belongs to neither side of the line can be the point.
Covered from here
What you need for an online session.
A private space and a phone or laptop. The link comes by email beforehand. Coverage is patchy in parts of the region, and where video will not hold the session runs on voice instead.
Men counselling men.
If you specifically want to work with a male counsellor, Men’s Therapy UK offers that option, available anywhere in North Wales by video or phone - though if you want to work in Welsh, a local Welsh-speaking counsellor is the better fit and I would rather say so.
What you can bring to counselling.
Privacy in a small community.
Wanting to talk about something without it travelling back through people you both know.
Work that took you away.
Contracts, rigs, sites and long weeks away, and the awkwardness of coming back into a house that carried on without you.
Anger with nowhere to go.
Frustration that has no obvious cause and no obvious outlet, surfacing at home rather than where it started.
What you are for, when that stops being obvious.
After redundancy, retirement, or the children growing up.
Ways to work
Choose how we work.
£60 per counselling session, or £275 for 5 paid upfront. Start with a free welcome call to ask about sessions and availability.
Free mental health support across North Wales.
None of the following costs anything or needs a referral. Several are Wales-wide rather than England-only.
Counselling questions men in North Wales ask.
Does the welcome call commit me to counselling?
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No. You can ask questions, tell me what you would like help with and decide whether to work with me. There is no obligation to book counselling afterwards.
Do you offer sessions in Welsh?
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No. Sessions are in English only, and I would rather say that plainly here than let you find out on the call. If you would rather work in Welsh, that is a good reason to look for a Welsh-speaking counsellor locally, and it will make the work better rather than merely more comfortable.
Does being in Wales change anything practically?
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Not for private counselling. NCPS registration covers the whole of the UK and the terms here are the same wherever you live. What differs is the NHS, which is run separately in Wales, so any waiting list you are on there is a different queue from an English one.
I live in Flintshire but work in Chester. Which page applies?
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Either, and it makes no difference to what happens. There is a Chester page because people search that way, but the sessions, the price and the format are identical whichever side of the border you count yourself on.
The signal where I live is unreliable. Is that a problem?
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Tell me before booking. Video and telephone both need a reliable connection. We discuss the format and agree what to do if a call drops; an alternative arrangement may be needed.
Start with a conversation
Book your welcome call.
Choose a day and time in the calendar below. You can ask me questions about how I work and tell me what you would like support with. There is no obligation to book counselling afterwards.
Counselling in other areas.
Online sessions cover the whole of the UK regardless. These are the places with a page of their own.