About Josie
Josie Peacock is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years' practice experience in both personal and NHS settings. She has also worked for a charity supporting people facing end of life and palliative care. Josie aims to make first steps easier for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Her approach is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on building confidence, improving self‑care, and easing anxiety about past hurts or current pressures. Josie listens closely and responds without judgement.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person’s needs, drawing on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside attachment and client‑centred ideas. Hypnotherapy is also available where it fits the client's goals. The work is practical and paced to what a person can manage.
People bring many concerns to Josie, including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and parenting strain. She also supports those coping with trauma, bereavement, career shifts and caring responsibilities. Sessions aim to help someone find tools and motivation to move forward.
Josie helps set clear goals, practises coping skills together, and supports changes outside sessions. Her style combines gentle challenge with steady encouragement. Josie works in English and accepts international clients.
She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin, then schedules sessions that fit the person’s needs and availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It often focuses on values and small, manageable actions that move someone towards a life they care about. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment‑based work explores relationship patterns that affect how someone connects to others and themselves, and can be useful for intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, try techniques together and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Goals, personal preferences and daily life demands guide which methods are used and how sessions are structured.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face‑to‑face work when discussing emotions or practising skills. Phone sessions can be shorter check‑ins or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text‑based messaging suit people who prefer written communication, want ongoing brief check‑ins, or need to fit therapy around work and family commitments. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to try different formats until the right fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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