Online therapy & counselling for loneliness
When you feel alone and need connection.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for loneliness and isolation. A weekly hour that’s yours, to feel seen, and more connected.
The loneliness self-check
How connected do you feel?
A short, reflective check, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything. It’s a way to notice 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 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 loneliness
A real relationship, and a way back to others.
Your therapist is equipped to understand what’s beneath the loneliness, and help you feel more connected. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes: in two ways. The therapy relationship is itself a genuine, consistent connection, and the work helps you understand what gets in the way of closeness elsewhere, so you can build the relationships you want outside the room too.
Not usually. Many lonely people are surrounded by others. It’s about the quality and depth of connection, and often about patterns (difficulty trusting, opening up, or feeling worthy of closeness) that therapy can gently work with.
That’s incredibly common, and the embarrassment is part of what makes loneliness so hard to shift: it’s often the very thing that stops us reaching out. Therapy is a judgement-free place to say it out loud, and often that’s where things start to change.
For a lot of people it plays a part. Working from home can strip out the small, everyday contact that used to come for free, and while the research on social media and loneliness is mixed, plenty of people find that hours of scrolling leave them feeling more disconnected, not less. Whatever’s feeding it, therapy can help you understand your own patterns and rebuild the kind of connection that actually helps.
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.