About Peter
Peter Bramhill is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. He supports those coping with loss, trauma, relationship strain, addictions and major life changes. He works in a respectful, non-judgemental way to help people feel heard and understood.
Sessions are conversational and practical. Peter listens first, then helps people identify thoughts and behaviours that get in the way. He uses clear tools to manage anxiety, improve mood and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Small steps are used to tackle larger problems over time. Peter draws on several therapy approaches to match the work to each person. He commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to address unhelpful thinking, attachment-based perspectives to look at relationship patterns, and acceptance and commitment ideas to focus on values and action.
The aim is to blend methods so they suit the person in front of him. He has eight years of experience in therapeutic roles and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He works with adults on issues such as grief, parenting stress, sleep difficulties, anger and workplace pressures.
Sessions are offered from the United Kingdom in English through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a session according to the therapist's schedule. Peter offers a calm, straightforward way of working.
He focuses on making change feel manageable and on helping people regain a sense of control over their daily life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and difficulty making changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to alter unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, panic and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can be useful for intimacy issues, relationship strain and trust difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working. That decision is shared and may change as the work progresses to fit what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or step-by-step tasks between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, while using the approaches above in a format that suits the person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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