About Peter
Peter Bramhill helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. He supports those facing problems with self-esteem, addictions, grief, sleep and eating. He also works with issues around intimacy, relationships, parenting and career pressures.
Peter is a BACP counsellor with eight years' experience in therapeutic roles. His style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions are a place to talk and be listened to without judgement.
Peter aims to make sessions practical so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
How Peter works
He draws on a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas also shape how he looks at relationships and patterns. This lets him match methods to what each person needs.
In practice he asks about life events, current struggles and hopes for the future. Conversations look at thoughts, feelings and behaviour and how these link to day-to-day problems. Together they set simple, realistic goals and small steps to move forward.
Peter has spent years working from a compassion-focused outlook. That background guides him to be warm and accepting while offering clear, practical ways to manage distress. He works with adults in the United Kingdom and carries out sessions in English.
If someone chooses to start, the process begins with a short questionnaire and scheduling. Sessions can be arranged by following the site's sign-up flow and matching system.
Peter lists 15 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Peter works with
The areas below are the ones Peter selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| 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 (ACT) invites people to notice thoughts and feelings with less struggle, and to choose actions that reflect their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and living through difficult changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to reduce unhelpful patterns, often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help when intimacy, trust or communication feel difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peter will talk through different methods and decide together which fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process can be reviewed as therapy progresses so the approach stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for a full conversation and reading non-verbal cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and suit quick check-ins. Live chat or messaging can be useful for shorter updates, written reflections or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and mobility needs while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
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