Online clinical psychology for Bromley and south east London

Online therapy for adults in Bromley and south east London

Online clinical psychology for adults in Bromley means seeing a psychologist by secure video call rather than travelling to a clinic. This practice works with adults across Bromley, Beckenham, Chislehurst, Shortlands, Bickley, Hayes and Petts Wood, offering assessment and therapy for a range of difficulties without the need for a waiting room or a train into town.

Bromley sits at the southern edge of London, split between the BR1 and BR2 postcodes either side of the High Street. Bromley South has Southeastern trains to Victoria and Thameslink trains to Blackfriars, and Bromley North has a Southeastern shuttle to Grove Park. Plenty of people who live near The Glades or close to Church House Gardens and Norman Park commute into the city for work, which is exactly why a fixed weekly clinic appointment can be hard to keep. Clinical psychologists for Bromley and south east London, working online with adults, can offer a session slot that fits around a commute or a working day rather than the other way round.

Why choose private online therapy

Private online therapy gives you a choice of psychologist that is not limited by how far you can travel. You can be seen from home, from work during a lunch break, or from anywhere with a private space and a stable connection, which matters if your working week already involves two train trips a day. It also means the practical barriers that put people off starting therapy, parking, childcare, or simply finding an hour either side of a commute, tend to fall away. Sessions are confidential and structured around an initial assessment, so the approach used is matched to what you bring to it rather than applied as a single template to everyone who gets in touch.

What we treat

We work with adults presenting with anxiety, depression, health anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic, perinatal difficulties, post traumatic stress and trauma, and stress or burnout linked to work or caring responsibilities. Some people come with a clear diagnosis already, others simply know that low mood, worry, intrusive thoughts or exhaustion have gone on for longer than they would like and want an assessment to understand what is happening and what might help.

Our therapeutic approaches

The approach used depends on what you are struggling with. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is recommended by NICE for a range of anxiety disorders and depression, and forms the basis of a lot of the work we do. Trauma focused CBT and EMDR are both recommended by NICE specifically for post traumatic stress disorder, and are used where trauma is part of the picture. For longer standing patterns of thinking and relating, we also draw on schema therapy and compassion focused therapy, and for people managing chronic worry, health anxiety or difficult life circumstances, acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, can help build a different relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to eliminate them.

How online therapy works

Sessions run on a secure video platform rather than a general video call app, so nothing about the process is different from a private clinic other than the physical location. Contact usually begins with an initial assessment, where a psychologist asks about what has brought you to therapy, your history and what you are hoping will change. From there, sessions are booked at a regular interval, typically weekly, for as long as is clinically appropriate to the difficulty being worked on. You will need a device with a camera and microphone, a reasonably private space for the hour, and a connection stable enough to hold a video call.

Online therapy compared with face-to-face therapy

The evidence base for online delivery of talking therapies, including CBT, has grown substantially, and for many conditions outcomes are broadly comparable with face-to-face work. What differs is practical rather than clinical: there is no commute, no waiting room, and more flexibility over timing, which suits people juggling work and family around Bromley’s train lines. What online therapy cannot offer is a shared physical room, which occasionally matters for particular kinds of trauma work or where someone finds video calls themselves difficult to tolerate. An assessment is the right place to raise that, so the approach and format can be matched to what actually works for you rather than assumed in advance.

Next steps

If you think online therapy might help, the way to find out is to get in touch and arrange an initial assessment. There is no obligation attached to an enquiry, and the assessment itself is a chance to ask questions as much as to answer them. At the moment all our sessions are online by secure video. If you would prefer to meet in person, let us know when you get in touch.