About Peggy
Peggy Bishop is a warm, caring counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and related concerns. She offers a calm presence and a listening approach so people can talk about what feels hard. Peggy aims to help clients find practical ways to manage day-to-day worries and regain a sense of control.
She tailors sessions to each person, using everyday language and straightforward exercises rather than jargon. Sessions look at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going, and introduce small changes that can make a difference.
Background and approach
Peggy also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help with overwhelming feelings and tension. Peggy draws on seven years of practice and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That background informs her approach but she keeps work practical and focused on what people want to change.
She has a particular interest in supporting people who identify as LGBT and in addressing relationship and intimacy-related issues. Her work also covers trauma and abuse, depression, grief, addictions and self-esteem concerns. Peggy notices patterns from early attachment and helps clients connect those patterns to current difficulties.
She also supports people facing life changes, career strain, parenting stresses and health-related challenges. Sessions may include conversational reflection, thought-challenging exercises, and guided mindfulness practice. Peggy aims to create space for people to feel heard while learning skills to cope better.
The emphasis is on steady progress and on finding approaches that fit each person’s life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Peggy uses client-centred methods that focus on the person in front of her, listening first and helping people set the pace. This approach is about following what matters most to the client and adapting sessions to their needs.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact. CBT offers clear exercises and short practices that fit well into video or phone sessions, and it can help with anxiety, sleeping problems and mood changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peggy will discuss options and together you can try different methods to see what helps most. She aims to be collaborative and flexible, adjusting methods to match goals and daily life demands.
Online sessions come in several formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging - which makes therapy easier to fit around work, childcare and travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter option, while text-based messaging can support quick check-ins and ongoing reflections between meetings. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided practices when helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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