Elevate Your Driving Confidence

Lacking confidence behind the wheel or feeling anxious about driving can be overwhelming, and you’re not alone. Every year, we help drivers of all ages and experience overcome their fears and rediscover the freedom that confident driving brings. Whether you’ve avoided certain roads, lost confidence after an incident, or never felt fully comfortable behind the wheel, we’re here to support you.

Our bespoke Driving Confidence Courses are available across the UK and are tailored specifically to your needs. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. We take the time to understand what’s holding you back, whether it’s motorway anxiety, navigating busy roundabouts, fear of driving alone, concerns about aggressive drivers, or simply a worry that others are judging your driving.

From mild nerves to severe driving phobia, we’ve seen it all—and we know how to help.

Hypnotherapy?

If you feel you would benefit from a hypnotherapy-based driving confidence course, we also offer this in partnership with Ian Murton. More Info.

All our sessions are car-based and delivered by experienced, DVSA-registered trainers who understand not just how to teach, but how to listen. We offer flexible formats, including half-day and full-day sessions, to suit your schedule and comfort level.

Take the first step towards driving with confidence again. Your journey to safer, calmer, more enjoyable driving starts here.

All our courses are car-based, and we offer a range of sessions.

Our Typical Customers Include:

  • Post Accident – Those who have had an RTC (Road Traffic Collision) and wish to take additional driver training to help address their anxieties and give them back their control when driving. View our bespoke Post RTC Driving Course.
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  • Fear of Driving – Those who have developed a fear of driving for any reason that they wish to address.
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  • Needing to Drive More – Those who generally lack confidence in driving, and as part of their job (or any circumstance) need to drive more, and so want to arm themselves with increased skills and added confidence.
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  • Lack of Confidence – For those who simply find themselves lacking in confidence and need help.
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Read Our Confidence Case Studies – Learn about clients we’ve helped.

Whatever your reasons, we have a team of caring, non-judgemental DVSA (Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency) advanced driving instructors who can help you with a one-to-one, bespoke course designed perfectly around what you want.

“As part of my job, I needed to do a lot more motorway driving. I hated motorways! My training gave me the confidence to tackle them, and I now no longer dread them.”
Ms A. Jennings, London

How We Are Different:

Our Confidence Driving Courses are tailored for drivers who need more than just a quick refresher or basic learner-style instruction. When it comes to rebuilding confidence, the right approach matters. Poorly delivered or generic training can do more harm than good, potentially reinforcing fears instead of resolving them.

That’s why our courses are designed to give you targeted, professional support that’s effective, respectful, and empowering. Here’s how we help:

1. Specialist Courses –

We’ve developed a specialist, one-to-one confidence driving course designed specifically for those struggling with anxiety or low confidence behind the wheel. This is not generic tuition, it’s a personalised approach that gets to the heart of what’s holding you back.

We’ve already helped thousands of drivers across the UK regain control, rebuild confidence, and rediscover the freedom that safe, comfortable driving brings. For many, the results have been genuinely life-changing.

A lack of driving confidence doesn’t just affect your time on the road, it can impact your independence, career opportunities, and overall quality of life. Our goal is to change that.

2. Expert Tutors – Our tutors are experienced in confidence training for full licence holders. Supporting a qualified driver through anxiety, fear, or uncertainty requires a completely different skill set than teaching a learner.

3. Support Before, During and After – With us, you’re not squeezed into hourly sessions like a learner driver. Instead, you’ll receive personalised support before, during, and after your training. A dedicated course manager will work with you directly to ensure your experience is tailored to your needs. And once your course ends, you’re not on your own; we provide 12 months of ongoing concierge-style support to help you stay confident and safe on the road.

4. Post Course Report – After your driving course, you will receive a detailed driving assessment, which looks at your driving and how you improved, which also includes written notes from your tutor.

5. Training in Your Own Car – We mostly provide training in a client’s own car. Although we can supply a car, most prefer discreet training in a car they are familiar with.

We Have Full UK Coverage – And Come To You


How a Course Runs:

All training starts from your home or office. We come to you for the training, not the other way around. We can also provide training on the weekend. After you book a course, your tutor will call you to introduce themselves and to discuss your situation and circumstances in more detail.

Talking & Opening Up: On the day of the course, you will meet your tutor for a further informal chat before the driving starts. We have a set of questions we ask at the start, designed to get a better understanding of you and how best we can help. We ask insightful questions such as:

  1. How do you rate your driving
  2. What are your main fears and concerns
  3. What do you want to achieve from the training
  4. What has motivated you to do this training
  5. What sort of driver would you love to become

The things you discuss here will form the pathway to improved driving confidence, which will be referred back to during your training with us.

The Driving: If appropriate, we let you drive in a way you normally would for a short time so you can relax and so our tutor can get a feel for what you are like as a driver.

After the initial drive, we take time to discuss the tutor’s observations and tailor the rest of the day around your specific needs. For example, if motorways or overtaking are a source of anxiety, we’ll focus more heavily on those areas. Our courses are fully bespoke, designed around you.

Throughout the day, there will be regular opportunities to pause, reflect, and talk through any concerns or challenges. You won’t be driving non-stop; instead, the pace is relaxed, supportive, and focused on building lasting confidence. At the end of the session, you’ll receive a full debrief, along with practical tips and advice to help you continue progressing beyond the course.

Driving Phobias:

We support motorists dealing with a wide range of driving-related phobias. It’s important to recognise that a phobia is typically more intense than general driving anxiety—it can make getting behind the wheel feel overwhelming or even impossible.

If you’re experiencing a significant or deeply rooted fear of driving, we recommend first exploring support through a qualified therapist, such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), to begin working on the emotional foundation.

Once you’re ready, our confidence courses can complement your progress. We work as part of your support network, not as a standalone solution. It would be unrealistic and irresponsible to claim we can “cure” a phobia through driving practice alone.

What we can offer are practical, structured steps to help you build confidence and develop a safer driving style. Together, these can become powerful tools in helping you regain independence and take back control behind the wheel.

Driving Confidence Course Content:

The bespoke courses do vary based on your circumstances and situations. However, below is a range of things we typically cover:

1. Forward planning and observation
2. Anticipation
3. Rural road driving
4. Dealing with adverse weather
5. Advanced car control (including cornering)
6. Speed Awareness
7. Understand your confidence issues & how your driving style could have been a factor – if appropriate
8. Dealing with road rage
9. Helping you face your fears – in a caring and understanding way. This can often involve working with you to face your fears, whether that is just driving in general or something more specific like fear of motorways, driving under bridges, left (or right) hand turns and so on….

Learn more about what we mean by “bespoke”
Learn more about the high-quality standard of our tutors – more info

“I needed a refresher/confidence course after a serious accident. Motorways terrified me. I not only regained my confidence, but I also eliminated some rather bad habits, which I didn’t realise was putting me at increased risk.”
M. Hickman, Kent

All training takes place in your own car or van.

Learn more about what course duration is best for you – more info.
Not ready to book yet? Why not take a look at our comprehensive list of driving confidence tips.

Enjoy 12 Months FREE Concierge Service  – When you take a course with us, you also enjoy a one-year free membership with our Drivers Concierge service, providing a personalised, one-to-one helping hand for a range of motoring and driving assistance that you may need.

Start Your Journey To Increased Driving Confidence:

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If you have any specific questions, please contact us, outlining your specific fears so we are able to further assist you.
Read a few confidence case studies – More Info

If you feel you would benefit from a hypnotherapy-based driving confidence course, we also offer this in partnership with Ian Murton. More Info.