Tell us what matters
Share what you are looking for, including the parts of your identity, culture and lived experience—and how they connect—that feel important to you.
Inclusive, identity-affirming therapy
Therapy that sees the whole of you.
Belonging Therapy is a thoughtful, values-led platform helping you find support that honours your identity, culture, lived experience and the ways they intersect—because no part of you exists in isolation.
- Matched with care
- Affirming practitioners
- Your whole identity respected
Our starting point
Belonging Therapy exists to fill a missing space in UK therapy: an inclusive directory that helps you find support where the whole of who you are is respected.
How Belonging works
A gentler way into therapy.
Finding the right therapist can feel vulnerable. Belonging has created a thoughtful path from sharing what matters to choosing support in your own time.
Explore thoughtful matches
Discover carefully verified therapists whose experience, approach and values align with the support you are seeking.
Choose in your own time
Learn more about each therapist and decide who feels right for you, without pressure and without leaving parts of yourself behind.
What Belonging is
Belonging Therapy is a UK-wide directory for online therapy, helping people find culturally sensitive, affirming therapists through inclusive matching—so you can seek support without separating the parts of who you are.
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What you can find support with
Support for what you are facing—and the whole of who you are.
Belonging Therapy helps you explore qualified and verified therapists through inclusive, identity-affirming matching.
You decide what feels most important in your search, including:
- Identity, culture and language
- Lived experience
- Therapeutic approach and areas of experience
- Specialist training
Anxiety, depression and overwhelm
Anxiety counselling, depression counselling, anger management, and support with stress and burnout.
Neurodiversity and disability
Explore neurodiversity-affirming therapy for ADHD and autism, or find disability-affirming support.
Identity, culture and belonging
Explore culturally sensitive therapy, therapy for people of colour, Black therapists, LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy, bilingual or language-matched therapy, and inclusive, identity-affirming and intersectional matching that considers the whole of who you are.
Trauma, grief and healing
Trauma therapy, PTSD counselling, grief and bereavement counselling, and faith-sensitive support for religious trauma.
Relationships and self-worth
Couples and relationship counselling, alongside support for self-esteem, confidence and the relationship you have with yourself.
Belonging Therapy is opening soon. Join the waitlist to hear when therapist matching begins.
What belonging can feel like
A space safe enough for every part of your story—including the words you may never have said out loud.
Built with lived experience
Care, integrity and belonging at the heart.
Belonging Therapy was founded from a simple belief: feeling seen should not be a rare part of finding support. Intersectionality is the missing middle—the space where identity, culture, lived experience and context meet. Belonging brings together professional care and lived experience, helping more people find therapy that feels genuinely aligned.
Fayola EdmundsFounder · Psychotherapeutic Counsellor · MNCPS (Acc.)
For practitioners
Qualified and verified practitioners.
Practise somewhere your values belong.
We’re welcoming therapists who believe identity, culture, lived experience and intersectionality belong in the therapeutic conversation. Belonging is a values-led UK therapist directory and online therapy platform, helping practitioners grow their private practice and connect with clients across a wide range of needs, identities and lived experiences.
A place aligned with your values
Join a platform where identity, culture, lived experience and intersectionality are central to how therapy is presented and people are matched.
Thoughtfully matched enquiries
Connect with clients whose needs and preferences align with your practice, experience and the support you are equipped to offer.
Fair and transparent fees
No upfront or monthly listing fees. A service fee applies only when you receive payment for a session booked through Belonging.
Your practice, on your terms
Set your session fees, availability and caseload while remaining in control of your therapeutic work and professional boundaries.
Questions, answered
A few things you may want to know.
Simple answers to help you feel clear and comfortable.
Still wondering about something? Email us and a person will respond.