My name is Adrian, and I’ve worked as a therapist for many years. I started onlinetherapyservice.com in 2011, at a time when a lot of people were still unsure whether real therapeutic work could happen through a screen. I knew it could, because what helps is not the room itself, but the quality of the contact, the honesty, the safety, and the sense that you are with someone who is actually present.
Over the years I have worked with many different people and many different struggles. I have seen how easy it is for someone to lose touch with themselves while still appearing to cope on the outside. I have also seen how much can begin to change when a person feels able to speak more openly, think more clearly, and be met without pressure, performance, or pretence.
My way of working has grown out of experience, not fashion. It has been shaped by years of listening to people properly, noticing what helps, and noticing what gets in the way. I do not believe people should be pushed, managed, or treated like a problem to fix. Good therapy, to me, begins with respect, honesty, and space for a person to be real.
Qualifications and accountability
I am qualified in psychotherapy and counselling, and in hypnotherapy, and I have practised for many years. I hold professional indemnity insurance, and have done for a long time.
I am not a member of a professional body. I was, and I stepped away, because I don’t think membership should be treated as a guarantee of safety or quality, it isn’t one. A register in the UK cannot actually stop anyone practising, and its findings carry no force in law.
So I would rather be straight about where that leaves you. Your real protections with me are the same as they are with any therapist, member or not: your own judgement, your freedom to question anything, to pause, or to stop at any time, and your legal rights, which are yours regardless of any logo on a website. If something in our work troubles you, you can raise it with me directly and expect to be taken seriously.