About Josie
Josie Peacock is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years of practice experience in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has worked in independent practice, the NHS, and with a charity providing end of life and palliative care. Josie offers calm, steady support for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Her approach is warm and friendly. She listens actively and treats people with respect and compassion. Sessions aim to make it easier to talk about current worries and past hurts without judgement.
Background and approach
Josie helps people who struggle with anxiety, stress, depression, addictions and grief, among other concerns. She also supports those coping with self-esteem issues, relationship and intimacy worries, parenting pressures, and career or life changes. She can work alongside people dealing with trauma, anger, sleeping or eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
In sessions Josie draws on a mix of practical talking therapies and reflective methods. She will help you notice unhelpful patterns, try different ways of responding, and build everyday tools for coping. Some people find this gives quick relief, while for others it is steady change over time.
Josie aims to set clear goals together and to guide people at their own pace. She encourages self-care and confidence building so clients can begin to move forward and feel more able to manage their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by focusing on what matters rather than fighting every difficult feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change patterns that maintain problems like anxiety, depression or sleeping difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships and can help with intimacy, trust and communication problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and Josie treats this as a collaborative process. She will talk with you about your goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as you go. Together you will decide which methods suit your situation and pace.
Online therapy gives flexibility in how you meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and can be easier for quick reflections or when email-style communication feels more natural. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going alongside work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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