About Pegah
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered practitioner psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She has 12 years of experience across NHS and personal settings and holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
Her work focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress and a wide range of other life challenges. She uses an integrative approach, drawing on methods such as cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to suit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative - the person and therapist decide what matters most and set practical goals together. Pegah offers a warm, non-judgemental atmosphere where people can talk through difficult experiences. She pays attention to both distress and strengths, helping people notice resources they already have and build new coping skills.
Her background includes work with adults experiencing depression, addiction, trauma, grief, panic and eating concerns. She has also worked in roles supporting children and young people during her training, and she provides sessions for parents to reflect on their child’s emotional needs. In online sessions she blends emotionally focused and attachment-based ideas with practical strategies from CBT and ACT.
This mix supports emotional processing and clearer day-to-day thinking about change.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and testing new ways of coping. It often suits people wanting practical tools for panic, worry, sleep or mood problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they review what feels useful and adapt methods over time so the work fits the person’s life.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how therapy happens. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need more frequent brief contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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