About Petina
Petina Walker brings 17 years of counselling experience to her practice. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works from the United Kingdom. Petina aims to help people gain clarity and make practical changes through attentive listening and steady support.
Petina follows a client-led style. She adapts each session to what the person brings that day. Her work focuses on practical steps and emotional understanding rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
How Petina works
People can expect straightforward conversations and tools they can use between sessions. Her caseload includes stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem and career worries. She also supports those dealing with major life changes, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder and depression.
Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, domestic violence, substance misuse and body image. Petina uses several therapeutic approaches to suit different needs. Attachment-based work helps explore relational patterns.
Client-centred conversations prioritise the person's experience. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness techniques are used to help regulate difficult feelings. Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused ideas help set achievable goals.
Her background includes running a wellbeing centre for many years and work in drugs and alcohol services where she ran groups, assessments and brief interventions. Those roles shaped her practical, outcomes-oriented way of working. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, with a range of online formats available.
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What Petina works with
The areas below are the ones Petina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and behaviour. Online sessions use conversations and reflective exercises to help people notice and change repeating patterns in relationships.Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own experience. In an online meeting this means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows what the person brings, helping them find their own answers and pace for change.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasises identifying and working with core emotions in the moment. Through video or phone sessions Petina supports people to access and label feelings, which can reduce intensity and improve connection with others.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try different ways of working and agree what seems most helpful. That choice can change over time as needs and priorities shift.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth is needed or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, need flexibility or want shorter, more frequent exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring roles and travel.
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