Online therapy & counselling for social anxiety
When being around people feels like a test.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for social anxiety. A weekly hour that’s yours, to feel more like yourself around others.
The social anxiety self-check
How much is the fear of being judged costing you?
A short reflection, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything, but it can help you notice how social fear is shaping things.
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 social anxiety
Where the fear of judgement comes from, and how it loosens.
Your therapist is equipped to understand where the social fear comes from, and help you feel more at ease with people. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
Often especially so. Meeting from a space where you already feel safe removes some of the exposure that makes starting therapy hard, so many people with social anxiety find it easier to open up. The relationship with your therapist still builds genuinely, and becomes a steady place to work on the fear itself.
Shyness is a temperament, and usually manageable. Social anxiety is a stronger, more persistent fear of being judged or humiliated, one that leads you to avoid things and can quietly shrink your life. If the fear is holding you back from what you want, that’s reason enough to seek support.
Only ever at your own pace. Therapy for social anxiety goes gently: understanding where the fear comes from, building your confidence, and widening what feels possible a step at a time, never faster than feels manageable.
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.