About Petina
Petina Walker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 17 years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation and focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship concerns. Petina aims to give clear, practical support and a calm listening space for people who feel overwhelmed.
Her work is client-led and flexible. Sessions are shaped around what each person brings, and she draws on several approaches to match the moment.
Background and approach
Petina emphasizes understanding attachment and interpersonal patterns when supporting someone through relationship pain or co-dependency concerns. She combines client-centred listening with emotionally focused work to help people name their feelings and improve connection with themselves and others. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness techniques are used when people want to change habits or manage strong urges linked to addiction or stress.
Petina’s background includes many years working in drugs and alcohol services, running groups, completing assessments and offering one-to-one online interventions. That frontline experience informs how she supports people dealing with grief, trauma, health-related changes and caregiver stress. People who choose Petina can expect straightforward conversation, pacing that suits them, and practical ideas to try between sessions.
Her aim is to help clients feel steadier, make manageable changes and gain better clarity about the next steps. She offers work in English and sees people remotely via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How Petina’s approaches work online
Petina uses attachment-based ideas to track how early patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses. This helps when people struggle with connection, abandonment worries or repeating relationship difficulties.She also works in a client-centred way, offering empathic listening and pacing sessions around what the person brings. This approach helps clients feel heard and decide which goals matter most to them.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is another strand she uses to help people name emotions and shift unhelpful interaction patterns. EFT can be useful for strong feelings that get in the way of closeness or personal wellbeing.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Petina will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean trying mindfulness exercises one week and motivational interviewing the next to support change in behaviour.
Online sessions can be joined by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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