About Simon
Simon Petters offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction or low mood. He explains things simply and helps people find practical ways to feel steadier. Simon believes clients know their story best and works alongside them to build on strengths and motivation.
Simon has six years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. He has helped people manage trauma and abuse, and address issues around self-esteem and confidence.
How Simon works
He also supports those facing addictive patterns, including drug, alcohol and process addictions. His practice pays attention to relationship patterns and attachment, and he uses approaches that look at how early experiences shape current feelings. Simon draws on client-centred work to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities and pace.
He also weaves in elements of Jungian and psychodynamic thinking when exploring deeper personal themes. Sessions are practical and conversational. Simon helps people identify small, achievable steps and notices what gets in the way.
He encourages mindful habits and reflection to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance. People often come with questions about life purpose, separation, shame or isolation. Simon aims to create a steady space where those concerns can be named and worked through at a manageable pace.
He supports clients who want to make lasting change and strengthen their sense of self.
Simon lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Simon works with
The areas below are the ones Simon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Simon often combines attachment-focused work with client-centred practice to help people understand current patterns and feel heard. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people notice recurring patterns in close relationships. Client-centred therapy keeps sessions driven by the person’s concerns, with the counsellor following the client’s pace and priorities.He may also draw on Jungian and psychodynamic ideas when people want to explore deeper life themes or repeated emotional patterns. These approaches support reflection on meaning, recurring dreams or long-standing feelings and can be useful for issues like midlife crisis, emptiness or longstanding shame.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful and will adapt methods together with the client. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what each person needs.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals in video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping continuity of care.
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A practical next step
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