Communication and conflict
Breaking the cycle of the same argument.
Online Relationship Counselling · Oxford
Online relationship counselling for Oxford, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Oxford — from the city centre and Jericho to the streets around the dreaming spires — with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
In and around Oxford
Life in Oxford
Oxford carries an intensity all of its own. The academic calendar runs at a relentless pitch, and the expectation to perform, whether you are a student, an academic or working in one of the research and hospital institutions, can leave little space to admit you are struggling. Behind the postcard architecture, perfectionism and burnout are common companions.
Beneath a calm, historic surface, struggle can be hard to voice; a confidential online hour asks nothing of appearances.
Oxford is dominated by the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (John Radcliffe Hospital), and the BMW Mini plant at Cowley is a major local employer.
Relationship counselling here, for couples or individuals, slows down the pattern you are caught in and builds healthier ways of hearing and being heard.
The approach is the same wherever you live, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full — the methods, what each session covers and fees — on the main relationship counselling page and on how I work.
Sessions run over a secure, encrypted video link held to the same strict BACP confidentiality as meeting in person. After a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, you join each session from any private space using a phone, tablet or laptop — no software to install, no waiting room and no journey at either end.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
Breaking the cycle of the same argument.
Rebuilding safety after betrayal or addiction.
Finding your way back to closeness.
Sessions you can join from different places.
Working with people-pleasing and the need for control.
You do not need to come as a couple to change the dynamic.
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Oxford, you can refer yourself directly to NHS Oxfordshire Talking Therapies for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
Private sessions with me usually mean you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout; I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.
Oxford questions
Yes. I work with people right across Oxford, from the city centre and Jericho outwards, and anywhere else in London & South East, by secure video — no need to travel to Hove, and just as confidential as meeting in the room.
Yes. A great deal can change when one person shifts the pattern; you do not need to attend as a couple to do useful work.
Yes. Online makes it easy for couples in different places, or juggling childcare, to attend together.
No. We look at the pattern the two of you create together and where it gets stuck, not at who is to blame.
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start — no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available online across London & South East: Reading, Aylesbury, High Wycombe, London. See all of London & South East.
Other online support from Oxford: Addiction, Substance Use, Drinking, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma.