About George
George Petrou is a counsellor who focuses on building a warm, attuned relationship with each person. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and brings three years of professional experience to his sessions. George uses a relational, integrative way of working.
He aims to create acceptance and empathy in the room so people can say what they need to say and feel what they need to feel.
Background and approach
That starts with a simple, steady conversation about what is most pressing right now. His work often addresses anxiety, depression, grief and burnout. He also helps with addictions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and issues connected to attachment and relationships.
Additional areas George supports include body image, chronic illness, parenting stresses and career concerns. Sessions tend to focus on understanding how past and present relationships shape feelings and choices. He draws on attachment ideas to look at patterns, and on client-centred principles to centre the person’s experience.
Practical skills from approaches such as DBT are offered when helpful to manage strong emotions. People who come to George usually want a calm, non-judgemental space to make changes. He works collaboratively to set goals and to find steps that fit daily life.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approach-led online therapy that fits your life
George commonly uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. This approach helps when problems link back to trust, separation and attachment patterns. He also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions focus on the person's experience and move at their pace, offering acceptance and empathic listening rather than direction.Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques are also drawn on to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. These skills can help with anxiety, anger, mood instability and impulsive behaviours when they get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs and preferences. That conversation helps shape whether sessions are more reflective, skills-based or trauma-focused over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for longer, face-to-face style sessions, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to maintain continuity when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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