Online therapy & counselling for stress
When the pressure won’t let up.
Affordable, open-ended therapy for stress and overwhelm. A weekly hour that’s yours, to catch your breath and steady yourself.
Physical symptoms are always worth checking with your GP too, just in case there’s a physical cause.
The stress self-check
How much is stress weighing on you?
A short reflective check, written by Hora. It won’t diagnose anything, but it can help you see how much pressure you’re carrying.
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 stress
A place to put some of it down.
Your therapist is equipped to understand what’s driving the stress, and help you carry it differently. The same steady hour, every week, held for as long as it helps.
Good to know
Common questions
They overlap but aren’t identical. Stress is usually a response to external pressure and tends to ease when the pressure lifts; anxiety can persist even when things are objectively fine. Chronic stress can tip into anxiety or low mood, which is one reason it’s worth addressing early. At assessment we can help make sense of what’s going on for you.
Yes. As well as practical coping, therapy helps you understand the patterns underneath (the difficulty saying no, the sense that everything rests on you) so change can actually last. A weekly hour also creates a reliable point to step back and think.
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.
When it stops switching off: when it’s affecting your sleep, mood, health or relationships, or you can’t remember the last time you felt settled. You don’t need to wait until you’re at breaking point; the check above and an assessment with one of our experienced clinicians are low-pressure ways to take stock.
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.