Counselling in Bude, North Cornwall, and online across the UK
Counselling for couples and individuals, in Bude and online
The relationship is where change happens.
I’m John Walter, a relational counsellor. I work with couples, with individuals of any gender, and with children and young people. Couples and adults can see me in my room in Bude or online, wherever you are in the UK. If things between you and the people who matter have become stuck, distant or sour, that’s where we start.
I have places open now for couples, online and in Bude, and for individuals in the daytime.
Prefer to write first? Send me a short message.
Already working with me? Book a session
What brings people
Where you might be starting from
Couples and relationships
The same argument on a loop. Living more like flatmates than partners. The distance that opens up as life moves on: a new baby, an empty house, an affair, a loss. We work with what’s between you, so you can stay yourselves and still be close. Ninety-minute sessions, in the room in Bude or online.
Individuals
Women and men, trans and cis, and anyone whose gender sits outside those words. Anxiety, low mood, grief, a loss of direction, or carrying more than you can say out loud. Often the work reaches into your closest relationships, and the patterns of relating that have been with you a long time.
A focus on men
Alongside my wider work, a long history with men: anger that costs more than it used to, a flatness where feeling used to be, years of handling it alone. Online, weekday daytimes, anywhere in the UK.
Children and young people
Children finding school hard or learning at home, and children in care or living with kinship guardians. Teenagers too, when talking has dried up or every conversation turns into the same standoff. Steady work at their pace, finding ways to say what’s hard to put into words. In person in Bude only.
I work in a way that’s LGBTQ+ affirming and neurodiversity-affirming, with couples, individuals, and young people alike.
A little about me
Thirty years before the consulting room
I came to counselling after a significant personal loss, and after thirty years of work, from 1988, that all fed into it: a therapeutic community, child-centred teaching, foster parenting, and men’s work. I treat the practice as the sum of all that, not a fresh start.
I’m a registered and accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS Acc), a Professional Standards Authority Accredited Register.
My couples work is grounded in the Certificate in Working with Couples, accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists, and I’m continuing to train specifically in relationship therapy: a student member of COSRT, and currently taking the Advanced Diploma in Relationship Psychotherapy at the NAOS Institute.
I’m also a trauma-informed practitioner and certified for online and telephone work.
A simple next step
It starts with a free phone call
Prefer to write first? Send me a short message.
Fees – In person, Bude
- Individuals £60 – 50 mins
- Couples £95 – 90 mins
- Young People 11-18 £40 – 50 mins
Fees – Online, UK
- Individuals £75 – 50 mins
- Couples £120 – 90 mins