About Peter
Peter Waters is a counsellor with 17 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. He works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. Peter also supports those dealing with trauma, intimacy concerns and issues around addiction and grief.
He aims to meet people with respect and sensitivity. Sessions are shaped to each person's needs and paced to match what feels manageable. That practical focus helps people take small, steady steps when life feels uncertain.
Background and approach
Peter draws on client-centred work to keep the conversation grounded in what matters to the client. He uses cognitive behavioural ideas to identify patterns that maintain worry or low mood. Mindfulness practices are offered to build attention and calm, and existential thinking can help with bigger life questions.
Over the years he has also helped people with eating and sleeping issues, self-esteem and anger, and with concerns linked to attachment, adoption and bereavement. He is comfortable discussing LGBT issues and varied relationship styles including kink and BDSM culture. Sessions are offered in English and international clients can be seen.
Peter asks new clients to complete a short questionnaire so he can match the work to their aims. He uses a subscription model where sessions are scheduled according to availability and can be cancelled at any time.
How his approaches work online and in session
Peter uses client-centred therapy to keep the focus on each person's priorities and experience. That means the counsellor follows the client's lead, listens closely and shapes the sessions around what the client says matters most.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. This approach helps when anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits are getting in the way of daily life by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He discusses goals and preferences openly and adapts methods as needed, so the plan reflects what the person wants to change and how they like to work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video lets you see facial cues and keep a face-to-face rhythm, phone can be quicker and needs less bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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