About Peter
Peter Waters is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 17 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with relationship and intimacy concerns, and work through trauma and abuse. He aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect and tailors sessions to each person's needs.
Over his career Peter has helped people dealing with depression, grief and addictions, and he also takes a practical approach to problems with sleep, eating and anger.
Background and approach
He works with issues related to self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, and the ups and downs of life transitions. He also supports people exploring identity and LGBT matters. Peter uses a mix of conversational listening and structured techniques.
He draws on client-centred ways of working to follow what matters to the person in front of him. He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that can change daily habits. Where deeper meaning and life choices are in view he brings an existential perspective to help people consider values and purpose.
Mindfulness practices are offered when slowing down and grounding can help with anxiety or stress. Sessions are shaped to the individual and their goals. Peter is registered with NCPS.
He offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Appointments are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, prospective clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Peter often uses Client-Centred Therapy to follow what matters most to each person. This approach involves listening with curiosity and reflecting back what is heard so that the client feels understood and can steer sessions toward personal goals.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries practical experiments to change daily routines and reduce anxiety or low mood.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which methods match their needs, goals and preferences. Plans are reviewed and adjusted as progress and priorities change.
Online work is offered by video call, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging suits short check-ins, written reflections or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and can help people keep regular contact around work, travel or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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