Online therapy & counselling for health anxiety
When everything feels like a warning.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for health anxiety. A weekly hour that’s yours, to quiet the fear and trust your body again.
Physical symptoms are always worth checking with your GP too, just in case there’s a physical cause.
The health anxiety self-check
How much space is health worry taking up?
A short reflection, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything, but it can help you notice how much space health worry is taking.
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…
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 health anxiety
Beneath the checking, to what the fear is really about.
Your therapist is equipped to understand what fuels the health worry, and help you find steadier ground. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes. Health anxiety responds well to therapy. A lot of the work is understanding the pattern and gently stepping out of the checking-and-reassurance loop that keeps the worry going, so it takes up less and less of your life.
Of course, and looking after your health is a good thing. Health anxiety is different: it’s worry that keeps going despite reassurance, tests or a clean bill of health, and that takes up more and more of your time and attention. If that sounds familiar, therapy can help.
Yes. Therapy for health anxiety is not a substitute for medical care, and any new or worrying physical symptom is always worth checking with your GP. Therapy helps with the worry itself, particularly when it persists after you’ve been reassured.
CBT is the therapy the NHS usually recommends for health anxiety, and it really can help. 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, no hidden fees. Genuinely affordable, with your therapist paid fairly.
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.