Josie Peacock

Josie Peacock is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years' experience working across private practice, the NHS, and charity settings. She holds NCPS accreditation and has supported people through end of life and palliative care roles. Josie aims to make the first step feel manageable and stays alongside clients as they work through difficult thoughts and feelings.

Her approach is warm and direct. Sessions focus on practical steps and simple tools to reduce anxiety and build confidence. Josie listens actively, offers calm guidance and works to help clients find motivation when they feel stuck.

She regularly helps people cope with stress, anger, anxiety, depression and grief. Josie also supports concerns such as addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stresses, and career transitions. Other areas she addresses include ADHD, trauma and attachment-related worries.

Therapeutic methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and hypnotherapy. These approaches are used to help people recognise patterns, try new responses and develop clearer personal values.

Sessions are presented in a respectful, non-judgemental way. Josie encourages self-care and practical changes alongside emotional work. She helps people set small goals and notice gradual progress.

If someone is unsure where to begin, Josie asks a few simple questions to understand priorities and then plans sessions around the person’s immediate needs and longer term aims.

How Josie's approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while picking small actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression and problems like anger by shifting focus toward meaningful behaviour. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns from the past and how they affect current connections, which can be useful for intimacy and trust issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then tailor methods collaboratively. Sessions can blend approaches so the plan matches what the person needs at each stage.

Please confirm the exact session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during work breaks, or avoiding being on camera when that feels difficult. Registered or accredited professionals can use these practical benefits to support steady progress and make therapeutic tools easier to practise between appointments.