About Pegah
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered practitioner psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She has 12 years of experience across NHS and personal settings and holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
She aims to help people who are struggling make steady, meaningful change in their everyday lives. Her work is practical and tailored. She draws on several well-established therapy approaches and chooses what fits each person.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on steps they can take between meetings.
How Pegah works
Sessions are conducted with a calm, non-judgemental manner. People are invited to talk about painful memories, current stress, or confusing feelings without pressure. The aim is often to reduce distress and build clearer ways of coping.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma and grief, addiction, eating issues, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy difficulties, and coping with life changes. There is also experience with ADHD, bipolar, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes both adult work and experience supporting children and young people through training with Place2Be.
She offers sessions for parents to reflect on their child's emotional needs and practical strategies to support them. People looking for a collaborative counsellor who blends different approaches will find a steady, compassionate presence and a focus on practical steps that fit daily life.
Pegah lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Pegah works with
The areas below are the ones Pegah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | HCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stuck patterns that get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers simple, practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach often helps with panic, low mood, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current emotional responses and works well for people who want to understand relationship and intimacy difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, symptoms and preferences, and together they will try methods that feel most helpful. If something does not fit, adjustments are made so the plan reflects the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier around a busy day, while text or chat are useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving or other responsibilities and let therapy fit more easily into everyday life.
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