About Peggy
Peggy Bishop offers support for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship worries, grief and questions about identity. She also helps with sleeping and eating difficulties, addictions, anger, self-esteem, parenting challenges, and career concerns. Peggy is a BACP counsellor with seven years of experience and speaks English.
She accepts international clients and provides sessions online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Peggy aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where people can say what they need to say.
How Peggy works
She places emphasis on building a trusting connection so conversations can feel natural and focused. Sessions move at a pace that suits the person seeking help rather than a fixed timetable. Her approach blends person-centred thinking with practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness.
Peggy draws on Attachment-Based and trauma-focused ideas when past hurts affect current relationships. The focus is on useful, everyday strategies that help manage thoughts, feelings and behaviour between sessions. People often come with complex issues like grief, chronic illness, neurodiversity-related concerns, or difficulties linked to adoption, abandonment or caregiving stress.
Peggy uses that wider context to shape the work and to set realistic steps forward. She pays attention to how relationships and life stages influence wellbeing. Sessions are conversational and aim to be straightforward.
Peggy offers coaching-style support when people want practical plans, and reflective therapy when the aim is to understand patterns. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.
Peggy lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Peggy works with
The areas below are the ones Peggy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Approaches that guide online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections influence current relationships and emotional responses. It can help when past losses or insecure bonds shape how someone relates to others today. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and the client's own pace; it helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, addresses unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns by teaching practical techniques to manage anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and they will try methods that fit the person rather than force a single model. That collaborative way of working means plans can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps the work. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on the therapeutic goals.
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