An hour that’s yours.
Affordable, open-ended online therapy and counselling.£26 for your first assessment, then £40 a session.
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.
The honest comparison
Affordable therapy shouldn’t rest on someone working for free.
When therapy is inexpensive, it is worth asking who is actually delivering it. A lot of low-cost online therapy comes from counsellors still in training, almost always working unpaid, and sometimes presented to you as fully qualified psychotherapists, which they are not.
Every therapist trains on placement to build their hours, and there is nothing wrong with that; it is how the profession works. But when a low-cost service is an online business rather than a charity, and the therapist still goes unpaid, it is fair to ask who is profiting. Hora does it differently: we pay our therapists fairly for every session. It is the right thing to do, and it means they bring more care and pride to the work they do with you.
If a low-cost online therapy service doesn’t make clear whether your therapist is in training, or whether they’re paid, always ask. A good one will answer plainly.
A quick check-in
How have you been, really?
A short check-in. It won’t diagnose anything, but it is a good way to notice how you really are, and to see whether a weekly hour might help.
Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by…
A personal check-in, not a diagnosis. Questions are adapted from the GAD-7 and PHQ-9 screening scales.
Hora isn’t an emergency service. If you’re in immediate danger call 999, or NHS 111 (mental health option). Samaritans: 116 123.
Pricing & affordability
Affordable, and honest about it.
A conversation with an experienced clinician to understand what you need and to find the right fit. No pressure to continue.
Open-ended sessions at a time held for you every week. No membership, no minimum commitment.
For therapists
Are you a UKCP trainee? Get paid for your placement.
Hora offers placements to psychotherapists in UKCP-accredited clinical training. Clients are assessed and allocated, clinical governance is in place, and you’re paid fairly for every session, with holiday and sick pay, and a proper clinical structure around you.
Apply for a placementQuestions
Good questions, straight answers.
Hora is for adults aged 18 and over, anywhere in the UK, who want good, open-ended therapy at a price that won’t strain them. There’s no income test and no means-testing. You don’t have to prove you can’t afford private rates, or justify why you’re here. Low-cost therapy should be a straightforward choice, not something you have to qualify for. The one thing we do check is that weekly online therapy is a fit for what you need, which is exactly what the assessment is for.
Every Hora therapist is a psychotherapist in advanced UKCP-accredited clinical training: years into the highest and most rigorous psychotherapy training in the UK, typically a minimum of five years of postgraduate study, not a one- or two-year counselling course. They hold UKCP trainee membership and register with the UKCP on qualifying, and they are already well-established with substantial supervised clinical hours, seeing clients under close supervision and Hora’s clinical governance.
Worth saying plainly: because this route is so long, many of our therapists have by now trained for longer, and in more depth, than some practitioners who have already fully qualified through shorter counselling routes. Being ‘in training’ here means near the end of one of the longest trainings in the profession, not new to the work.
Yes. After your assessment, you’re sent a selection of therapist profiles and you choose who you’d like to work with. If the fit isn’t right after the first few sessions, we’ll help you change, free of charge.
Hora is open-ended. There’s no fixed number of sessions. You and your therapist review how things are going and decide together when it feels like the right time to end. Some people come for a defined stretch; others stay much longer.
A one-off £26 assessment to begin, then £40 for each 50-minute weekly session. You pay for the assessment when you book it. For sessions after that, your card is kept securely on file, held by Stripe so neither Hora nor your therapist ever sees it, and charged after each session. No membership, no hidden fees.
Yes. Much of therapy lives in embodied expression and the small cues you and your therapist read without thinking. So we ask that your camera stays on for your assessment and your sessions, just as it would be if you were together in a room. If that feels daunting, please say so. It’s a very normal thing to feel, and something you can settle into together.
For most common difficulties (anxiety, low mood, stress, grief, relationships, self-esteem) there’s good evidence that online therapy helps, and many people find it works well for them. What matters most in any therapy is the relationship between you and your therapist, and that builds just as genuinely over video. It isn’t the right setting for everyone or for every difficulty, and we’ll always be honest at assessment if we think you’d be better served another way. But for a great many people, meeting from somewhere they already feel safe makes it easier, not harder, to do the work.
Yes. Sessions are private and confidential, held on a secure platform and handled in line with the UKCP’s Code of Ethics on confidentiality, alongside professional and data-protection standards. The only limits are the usual ones around serious risk of harm, which your therapist will explain.
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.