Online therapy & counselling for sleep & insomnia
When sleep won’t come.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for insomnia and sleep problems. A weekly hour that’s yours, to quiet your mind and rest again.
The sleep self-check
How much is sleep, or the lack of it, affecting you?
A short reflection, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything, but it can help you notice how much sleep is weighing on you.
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.
Ongoing sleep problems can have physical causes too. If poor sleep persists, it’s worth seeing your GP as well, since therapy isn’t a substitute for medical care.
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 sleep
Quieting the mind, so sleep can come.
Your therapist is equipped to understand what keeps you awake, and help your nights settle. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Yes, particularly when poor sleep is tied to stress, anxiety, low mood or a mind that won’t switch off. The NHS lists stress, anxiety and depression as the most common causes of insomnia, and therapy helps with what’s underneath the sleeplessness and with the worry that builds up around bedtime, both of which keep the cycle going.
If poor sleep has gone on for a while, yes. Sleep problems can have physical causes, and some are worth ruling out, so therapy is best alongside medical care rather than instead of it. Therapy is most useful for the stress, worry and low mood that so often keep people awake.
Not exactly. CBT-I is a specific, structured programme for sleep. Hora offers open-ended psychotherapy that works with what’s underneath the sleeplessness, and can draw on CBT-informed ideas where they help. If you specifically want a dedicated CBT-I programme, tell us at assessment and we’ll be honest about the fit.
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.