Josie Peacock , NCPS

Josie Peacock is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years of practice experience. She has worked in both private practice and the NHS, and has recent experience with a charity supporting people in end of life and palliative care. Josie draws on a calm, warm manner to help people talk through difficult feelings and stressful life events.

Josie focuses on helping people reduce anxiety and manage stress. She supports those facing grief, low self-esteem, depression, addiction concerns and issues around intimacy and relationships. She also works with people dealing with parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, career change, ADHD and compassion fatigue.

Her approach is person-centred and non-judgemental. She listens actively and aims to create a respectful space where clients can explore their history and current challenges. Josie combines client-centred work with practical strategies from cognitive behavioural approaches and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people find clearer ways forward.

In sessions she offers straightforward tools and gentle exploration of patterns such as attachment, avoidance or control issues. She can also use hypnotherapy when appropriate to support deeper relaxation or habit change. Josie aims to help people build confidence, improve self-care and develop small, manageable steps towards their goals.

Josie works in English and supports clients in the United Kingdom as well as international clients. She holds NCPS as a credential and brings experience from NHS and charity roles to her counselling practice.

How Josie’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and those stuck in avoidance patterns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour through practical exercises and short experiments. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and can help with intimacy, trust and communication difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Josie discusses goals and preferences with each person and uses that conversation to decide whether ACT, CBT, attachment work or hypnotherapy will suit the issue at hand. She treats the process as collaborative and adjusts plans as progress is made.

Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a therapy conversation with visual connection. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, written reflection or when typing helps people process emotions. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.