The Harbourside Practice is a space dedicated to the talking therapies and the professionals who practise in them.
The Harbourside Practice Talking Therapy Rooms are consulting rooms for independent talking therapists, counsellors, and psychologists. They consist of three refurbished, well-equipped therapy rooms and a comfortable waiting room in a landmark Georgian terrace with views from Bristol’s Redcliffe Parade East over the water towards Welsh Back, Castle Park and Queen’s Square.
The rooms provide a warm, comfortable, and accessible venue for clients and a credible and professional working environment for independent practitioners.
The rooms are set out for talking therapies with double doors and insulated floors but portable massage tables are available too. The waiting room has two two-seater sofas and access to the loo.
The rooms are all well lit and at roughly 10’ x 14’ they’re a good size for talking; neither cramped nor too big, cold, or impersonal.
If you’d like to find out more about renting a consulting room, please email clive@theharboursidepractice.co.uk
How it works
The practitioners working from the Harbourside Practice Talking Therapy Rooms are self-employed professionals who manage their own booking arrangements independently so you’ll need to contact them directly. Their listing and contact details are in the Our Therapists page.
To work from the Harbourside Practice Talking Therapy Rooms our practitioners must be qualified following a recognised course of instruction in the therapies they practise, must belong to a relevant professional organisation and adhere to their published Code of Ethics and Practice and Complaints and Disciplinary procedures and must have and maintain adequate Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurance.
We do not provide a walk-in talking therapy service. Please make an appointment directly with the practitioner of your choice
We provide the rooms in which our practitioners practise and being on our website doesn’t represent an affirmation of their website entry’s content.
Accessibility and parking
Despite its city-centre location, accessibility is very good.
The Redcliffe Parade East local authority pay and display car park is literally over the road with spaces available at £2.50 for an hour and there is pay and display parking for up to 3 hours about 30 yards down the road and in nearby Jubilee Place and Guinea Street.
Bike parking: There is a motor-bike stand in the carpark opposite the Practice and Sheffield bars just by the church. Please don’t lock your bike to our neighbours’ railings.
There are steps down to the entrance.
Temple Meads railway station is an 8 minute walk away and the area is well served by various bus routes as well as the ferry.
The rooms are easy to find: just head for St Mary Redcliffe’s spire (or ask directions to St Mary Redcliffe Sixth form college) and then you’ll see the unmissable big white Mercure Holland House Hotel. The Colosseum pub, to the right of the hotel, is on the corner of Redcliffe Parade East and the Practice is 100 yards up from that.
If you feel you need support urgently, here is a list of useful contacts:
- NHS crisis line: open 24 hours, daily – 0800 953 1919
- Samaritans Listening Service: open 24 hours daily – 116 123 or (Bristol) 0117 983 1000
- SANEline: Open daily 4.30-10.30pm – 0300 304 7000
- Bristol MIND Line: (Listening Service) – Open Wed-Sun 7-11pm – 0808 808 0330
- Shout: (support) – Open 24/7 – Text: SHOUT to 85258