About Petra
Petra Vidal is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She also supports those coping with low self-esteem, depression, and struggles with motivation. Petra aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward.
Petra brings three years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which denotes her membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and life events.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely to what matters most to each person. Petra uses practical conversation to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques when helpful to address anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviours.
Petra also offers client-centred work that focuses on the person’s own goals and values. This approach supports reflection about meaning, life choices and feelings of emptiness or loss. Mindfulness methods are used to help people manage stress in the moment and build simple daily practices.
People come to Petra with many concerns beyond anxiety and mood, including relationship tensions, family of origin issues, grief, eating struggles, and career uncertainty. She also works with experiences linked to trauma, attachment difficulties and patterns like avoidant or dependent behaviours. Her style is steady and conversational, focused on small, practical steps that suit each individual.
Petra guides people towards clearer choices and more manageable ways of coping.
How Petra’s approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens without judgement and helps the client shape sessions around what they want to change. This approach can help when someone feels lost, empty or unsure about life direction.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses clear exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Petra will discuss what fits each person’s needs and try different ways of working when necessary. This is a collaborative process where goals and methods are agreed together.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold longer sessions. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option and can suit a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter exchanges or written reflections between sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, family commitments and busy days, while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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