Intrusive memories
Support for flashbacks, nightmares and re-experiencing.
Online Trauma Counselling · Dudley
Online trauma counselling for Dudley, by secure video. From a base in Hove I work with people across Dudley — from the town centre and the castle to the streets around the Black Country Living Museum — with the same BACP-registered, confidential support as an in-person session, and no journey.
In and around Dudley
Life in Dudley
Dudley sits at the heart of the Black Country, a town proud of its industrial roots and marked by their passing. Insecure work, health inequality and money worries weigh on people here, and there can be a strong pull to cope quietly rather than seek support.
Where the old industries have gone and there is a strong culture of just getting on with things, online keeps support discreet and within reach however stretched the week.
Dudley is served by Russells Hall Hospital and is home to the Black Country Living Museum, at the historic heart of the Black Country.
The local picture
These figures are local context from official sources — not a description of you — but they show the scale of what people in and around Dudley are living with, and why local support matters.
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 102.8 per 100,000 in 2023/24, below the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
Local data last reviewed June 2026. Each figure shows the year and links to the official source it was read on.
Trauma counselling here is gentle and led by you, drawing on methods designed for trauma including the Human Givens Rewind Technique, so a difficult memory is returned to ordinary recall.
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 trauma 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
Support for flashbacks, nightmares and re-experiencing.
Help when your nervous system is stuck on high alert.
For when you cope by shutting down.
Healing the wound that drives the habit.
Reaching the quieter, accumulated hurts.
Working always at a pace that is led by you.
My online counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Dudley, you can refer yourself directly to NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression, with no GP referral needed. You can find support through the NHS Talking Therapies finder.
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.
Dudley questions
Yes. I work with people right across Dudley, from the town centre and the castle outwards, and anywhere else in Midlands, by secure video — no need to travel to Hove, and just as confidential as meeting in the room.
No. Methods like the Human Givens Rewind let us process a memory without you reliving it or even speaking the detail aloud.
Yes, when it is paced carefully. We go slowly, keep you grounded, and you stay in control of what we approach and when.
We build in ways to settle and pause, and never move faster than feels safe. Being in your own space online can make that easier.
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 Midlands: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Birmingham. See all of Midlands.
Other online support from Dudley: Addiction, Substance Use, Drinking, Anxiety, Depression, Relationship.