About Jose
Jose "Ronnie" Pereira is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He speaks English and Portuguese and works from the United Kingdom. Ronnie brings eight years of experience to sessions and uses a blend of well-known approaches to support change.
Ronnie uses acceptance and commitment ideas alongside cognitive behavioural techniques. He also draws on client-centred and mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and down to earth, with steps you can use between meetings. Clients often bring things like low mood, addiction, trauma, relationship strain, grief or life changes. Ronnie also supports people facing self-esteem struggles, parenting stress, sleep problems and career uncertainty.
He pays attention to how emotions, body sensations and values link together when making changes. His style is collaborative and paced to each person. He encourages people to try small experiments, practise new skills and reflect on what matters to them.
The focus is on useful tools for daily life rather than medical labels. Ronnie accepts sessions by video call, phone, live chat or messaging. His work is aimed at individuals who want a compassionate, practical way to reduce distress and build more workable habits.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to behavioural changes and can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and behavioural experiments to reduce worry, improve sleep and manage mood swings.
Client-Centred Therapy offers a warm, non-judgemental space where the counsellor listens and reflects. This approach helps people feel understood and supports self-discovery and emotional healing.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and try approaches together to see what fits. That collaborative process helps tailor the plan to each person's needs rather than imposing a single technique.
Online therapy via video, phone, live chat or messaging makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel. Video calls work well for visual connection, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options offer flexibility while keeping therapy focused on practical steps and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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