About Penelope
Penelope 'Penny' Grigg offers a counsellor-led, client-centred approach that keeps the person central to every session. She uses clear tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside person-centred listening to help people manage anxiety and stress. Penny is a BACP member and has nine years of practice in the United Kingdom.
She keeps conversations straightforward and grounded. Sessions focus on what is happening now, what patterns keep repeating, and small steps that can ease daily pressure.
Background and approach
Practical techniques from CBT are blended with listening that helps people make sense of their experiences. Penny has worked a lot with anxiety, addiction and trauma, including people who have faced abuse, coercive control or loss. She also supports people dealing with low self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, and major life changes.
Her work can include exploration of attachment, abandonment and relationship difficulties. The approach is collaborative. Penny and the person she is working with agree on goals and try different ways to reach them.
She draws on narrative and existential ideas to help people name their stories and consider different meanings and choices. Penny offers sessions online by video, phone, chat or text as well as face to face when that is suitable. She maintains professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
If someone wants to start, they follow the simple platform steps to match and book a first session.
Practical approaches for online therapy and anxious minds
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and acceptance. The therapist helps a person feel heard and supported while they make sense of their experience and choose what matters next. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers straightforward techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. It is useful for day-to-day stress, sleep or worry problems.Penny treats finding the right approach as a shared task. She will talk with the person about their goals and preferences, try techniques together, and adjust the plan as needed. This collaborative way helps match methods to what actually helps someone feel steadier.
Online therapy provides flexible options for different needs. Video calls let people work face to face when convenient. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or need a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter, on-the-go conversations or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work regardless of location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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