About Josie
Josie Peacock is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years of experience working across independent practice, the NHS, and charity settings. She has supported people in end of life and palliative care and now offers online sessions for a wide range of concerns. Josie aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are anxious or unsure about therapy.
Her style is warm, friendly and straightforward. She listens closely and responds without judgement.
How Josie works
Sessions focus on small, practical steps that build confidence, self-esteem and self-care habits over time. Josie draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice thoughts without being driven by them.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going and to try new behaviours that change outcomes. Attachment-based and client-centred work help people understand how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Hypnotherapy is also available for those who want to try a different way to access thoughts and feelings.
Josie commonly helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, low self-esteem, depression and relationship and intimacy issues. She also supports those facing parenting strain, career change, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges. Sessions aim to be practical and tailored to the person’s goals.
To begin, Josie asks people to say what matters most to them and sets straightforward goals together. She focuses on steady progress rather than quick fixes, and stays alongside clients as they try out new ways of coping.
Josie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Josie works with
The areas below are the ones Josie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts without being driven by them and then commit to actions that match their values; it is often used for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for depression, anxiety and addiction-related behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Josie will discuss different methods and together they will choose what fits the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which adds flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help make it easier to fit regular sessions around work, travel or family commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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