Online therapy & counselling for burnout
When you’ve run past empty.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for burnout and exhaustion. A weekly hour that’s yours, to pause and rejuvenate.
Ongoing exhaustion is always worth checking with your GP too, just in case there’s a physical cause.
The burnout self-check
How depleted are you running?
A short reflective check, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything, burnout isn’t a formal diagnosis, but it can help you see how depleted you’re running.
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Over the last two weeks, how often have you felt…
A reflective check written by Hora: 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 burnout
Space to stop, and to work out what has to change.
Your therapist is equipped to understand what’s wearing you down, and help you refill. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes. The World Health Organization describes burnout as an occupational phenomenon: a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that hasn’t been successfully managed, marked by exhaustion, cynicism or detachment, and reduced effectiveness. It isn’t a personal failing, and it’s very responsive to the right support.
Stress tends to ease when the pressure lifts; burnout is what sets in when it never does. It overlaps with depression (low energy, low motivation) but is usually tied closely to work or caregiving demands. There can be overlap, which is exactly the kind of thing a proper assessment helps untangle.
Yes. Rest helps, but burnout often has roots: patterns of over-giving, difficulty saying no, or a sense that your worth depends on output. Therapy gives you space to understand those patterns and make changes that actually stick, rather than recovering just enough to burn out again.
A one-off £26 assessment, then £40 for each 50-minute weekly session: no membership, no minimum commitment, no hidden fees. Genuinely affordable, with your therapist paid fairly for their work.
It is, a little. Burnout makes one more commitment feel impossible, but a single protected hour a week, from home, with no journey to manage, is often the first thing that helps the rest feel less relentless.
If you’re feeling hopeless, unable to cope, or having thoughts of harming yourself, please treat that seriously. Hora isn’t an emergency service: if you’re in immediate danger call 999, or NHS 111 (mental health option); Samaritans are there any time on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258. You deserve support, and right now that urgent help is the safest place to turn.
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.