About Pegah
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and brings 12 years of professional experience from both NHS and personal-sector roles.
Her work focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief and a wide range of emotional difficulties while aiming for practical change. She uses an integrative style and adjusts methods to fit each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative - the therapist helps clients identify what matters most to them and sets goals together.
Background and approach
Dr Houshmand places emphasis on building strengths as well as working through painful experiences. Clients can expect a compassionate and non-judgemental space to talk through emotions and behavior. She has experience with common concerns such as depression, panic, addiction and relationship difficulties.
Phobias are included among the areas she works with. Her background includes work with children and young people through training with Place2Be, a children’s mental health charity. That experience informs her flexible, creative ways of engaging when it is helpful.
Many people come to therapy for practical coping strategies. Dr Houshmand uses evidence-informed approaches to help with emotion regulation, changing unhelpful patterns, and improving day-to-day functioning. She accepts clients from the UK and internationally and offers a range of online session formats to suit different needs and schedules.
How therapy methods translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and learning simple skills to handle difficult thoughts and feelings so people can act in ways that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people name and shift upsetting emotional responses to improve how they relate to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's needs, goals and preferences. Over the first few sessions she will discuss options and adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth, while live chat or messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people access consistent care around work, travel or family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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