Online Therapy in York and North Yorkshire — Depth Therapy Near Home

I am based in Harrogate — twenty miles from York, at the heart of North Yorkshire. I work online with adults across the UK, and York and the surrounding area form a significant part of the community I serve. This is not a therapist reaching across the country from somewhere else. This is a local practice, rooted in the same county, with a genuine connection to the people and places in this part of the world.

If you are looking for online therapy from York — or from Selby, Malton, Easingwold, Thirsk, Pocklington, or anywhere across the Vale of York and North Yorkshire — this page is for you.

What I Offer That Is Harder to Find in a Smaller City

York has good therapists. But a smaller city means a smaller pool — and finding a specialist in depth-focused relational work, with a background in research and NHS practice, who also works in your timezone, at your pace, with evening availability, is not straightforward.

Online therapy opens that pool significantly. You are no longer limited to whoever happens to have a room in York city centre. You can access the kind of specialist, depth-focused work that is more commonly associated with larger cities — without leaving your home.

What I specifically offer:

• Genuine specialism, not a generalist service. I do not work with every presenting issue. I work in depth with adults navigating the long reach of childhood — trauma, emotional neglect, difficult family dynamics, relational patterns that keep repeating, people-pleasing, chronic anxiety, and the complicated weight of early experience on adult life.

• An active therapeutic presence. I am warm and I am engaged. I listen carefully and I bring my own observations, questions and thinking into the room. Sessions leave you with something real — a connection made, a pattern named, a new way of seeing something. Not just the relief of having talked.

• Research-level understanding of the issues. I hold an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology and have published peer-reviewed academic research on childhood maltreatment and its long-term effects. My understanding of what you are navigating goes beyond clinical training.

• NHS Talking Therapies background. Before private practice I worked as a Senior Practitioner offering sessions based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and offering supervision to fellow practitioners. I understand how structured approaches work — and where they fall short for the kind of difficulty that needs something deeper.

Who Tends to Find Me

People in York and across North Yorkshire who contact me tend to share something. They are thoughtful. They have probably spent a significant amount of time trying to understand themselves — through reading, through previous conversations, through a general awareness that something from their history is still shaping their present.

They are often people who have functioned well on the surface for years — capable, responsible, holding things together — while carrying something quietly underneath that has never quite been resolved. Perhaps a chronic sense of not being enough. Perhaps a pattern in relationships that repeats however carefully they try to choose. Perhaps an anxiety that has been present for so long it feels like part of their personality rather than something that arrived.

They are ready to do something more than manage. They want to actually understand where it comes from — and to find that understanding through a therapeutic relationship that goes somewhere, rather than a space where they simply talk and are heard.

If that describes you, we are likely a good fit.

The Particular Challenges of Rural and Semi-Rural Life

York is a city, but much of North Yorkshire is not. A significant number of people who contact me live in smaller towns, villages, or genuinely rural settings — where accessing face-to-face specialist therapy means significant travel, and where the practical barriers to getting support are quietly higher than they might be in a city.

Online therapy removes those barriers entirely. A session happens wherever you have a private space and an internet connection — your home, your car, a quiet room. You do not have to factor in an hour's travel each way, or negotiate school hours, or find parking in York city centre, or arrive already depleted by the journey.

The quality of the work is the same. The relational warmth, the depth, the attunement — none of that requires physical proximity. Many clients find that working from their own familiar space allows them to settle more quickly into the kinds of conversations that matter.

Evening appointments are available throughout the week, which makes a significant difference for people managing work, families, and the particular rhythms of life in this part of the world.

What We Work On

I work in depth with adults navigating difficulties that tend to resist surface-level approaches — the kind of things that understanding alone has not been enough to shift:

• Relational patterns that keep repeating — you have named the pattern, you have traced it back, you have read everything about attachment — and you are still in it. Working with the pattern directly, in a relationship, is where it actually starts to change.

• Childhood trauma and its long reach — including the kind that does not look like trauma. Emotional neglect, conditional approval, growing up managing everyone else's feelings, the slow accumulation of not being quite met. The effects of early experience do not resolve through intellectual understanding — they resolve through relational experience.

• Chronic anxiety that has not responded to CBT or standard approaches — the kind that has been there as long as you can remember, that breathwork and thought records have not touched. Often connected to something much earlier than any current trigger.

• Attachment difficulties — the push-pull of relationships, the difficulty trusting, the way closeness feels simultaneously necessary and threatening. Understanding your attachment style is one thing. Doing something with that understanding is another.

• People-pleasing and the disappearing self — you know you do it. You even know why. And you still find yourself managing everyone else's feelings at the expense of your own, session after session, without it changing. This is where we go beyond insight to something experiential.

• The gap between who you know yourself to be and how you actually live — the intelligent, reflective person who cannot seem to act in accordance with their own values and understanding. This gap is usually where the real work is.

Trauma Therapy Without Talking About The Details

For people carrying specific traumatic experiences — a single event or a defined period — I also offer the Rewind Trauma Technique. This is a specialist trauma intervention that can bring significant and lasting relief in one to three sessions, without requiring you to describe, relive, or disclose the details of what happened.

It is particularly useful for people who have tried talking therapies without resolution, who find the idea of narrating traumatic experience in detail distressing, or who simply want to address the intrusive symptoms — flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance — without going back through the content.

This is available as a standalone intervention or as part of broader therapeutic work, depending on what you are carrying and what you need.