Online therapy & counselling for anxiety
When your mind won’t switch off.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for anxiety. A weekly hour that’s yours, to slow the worry and think clearly again.
Physical symptoms are always worth checking with your GP too, just in case there’s a physical cause.
The anxiety self-check
How much has anxiety been with you?
This is the GAD-7: a short, widely used screening questionnaire for anxiety. It won’t diagnose anything, but it can help you see where you are.
Private by design: your answers stay in your browser. We don’t see, save or track them, and nothing here is linked to you.
Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by…
The GAD-7 was developed by Drs Robert L. Spitzer, Kurt Kroenke, Janet B.W. Williams and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc. It is free to use without permission. A signpost, not a diagnosis.
This is a reflection, not a diagnosis. Hora isn't an emergency service. If you're in immediate danger call 999, or NHS 111 (mental health option). Samaritans: 116 123.
How it works
Three steps to get you started:
An assessment
A 25-minute assessment with an experienced clinician, to understand what you need and find the right fit.
Choose your therapist
Straight after your assessment, you’re sent a selection of therapist profiles to browse, each with their own specialisms and interests. You choose who you’d like to work with, and begin soon after, with no long wait for your first session.
A weekly hour
Open-ended weekly sessions online, at the same time each week, held just for you. No contract and no minimum commitment, so you stay for as long as it helps.
£26 for your first assessment, then £40 a session. No membership and no minimum commitment.
How Hora helps with anxiety
A steady hour, and someone properly trained to hold it.
Your therapist is equipped to look beneath the worry and understand what keeps it going. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes. For anxiety in particular, research has found online therapy works well. Many people also find it easier to open up about anxious feelings from a space where they already feel safe, without the added stress of travelling to a clinic.
The GAD-7 (Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7) is a short, widely used and validated screening questionnaire for anxiety. Clinicians use it to gauge how much anxiety someone has experienced over the last two weeks. It’s a helpful signpost, not a diagnosis. A proper assessment always looks at the fuller picture.
CBT is one of the treatments the NHS recommends for anxiety, and it helps many people. Some of our therapists draw on CBT-informed approaches, but we’re not a specialist CBT service. If a short, structured CBT programme is what you’re after, we’ll be honest about that at your assessment.
A one-off £26 assessment, then £40 for each 50-minute weekly session: no membership, no minimum commitment, and no hidden fees. Genuinely affordable, with your therapist paid fairly for their work.
There’s no threshold you have to reach. Plenty of people come to therapy with anxiety that looks manageable from the outside but quietly shapes their days. If it’s taking up space in your life, that’s reason enough. The GAD-7 above can help you see where you are, and an assessment with one of our experienced clinicians is a low-pressure place to start.
It’s worth asking who actually delivers therapy this affordable. A lot of low-cost online therapy comes from counsellors early in a one- or two-year training, almost always working unpaid, and sometimes presented as fully qualified when they’re not. Hora is the honest version: your therapist is a psychotherapist in advanced UKCP-accredited clinical training, the deepest and most rigorous route in the profession, closely supervised and with hundreds of clinical hours behind them, and paid fairly for every session. Therapy is open-ended, with no session cap and no income test, and you choose who you work with. Genuinely affordable, and never built on someone’s free labour.
Hora isn’t an emergency service. If you’re in immediate danger, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. For urgent support, these free services are there any time: Samaritans on 116 123, Shout by texting SHOUT to 85258, NHS 111 for urgent mental-health advice, and Switchboard for LGBTQIA+ people on 0800 0119 100. If you’re not in crisis but things feel heavy, booking an assessment is a good next step.