Dr. Pegah Houshmand, HCPC

Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered practitioner psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She has 12 years of professional experience across the NHS and private practice and holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology. Her work focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and other life challenges in practical, everyday terms.

She uses an integrative approach and adapts methods to fit each person’s needs and goals. Sessions are collaborative - she listens, reflects, and helps clients set realistic steps to feel better. The aim is to reduce distress and build coping skills that can be used between sessions.

Dr. Houshmand offers a non-judgemental space where people can talk about painful experiences or confusing feelings. She also helps people identify their strengths and small changes that improve daily life. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including grief, addictions, trauma, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and workplace or career stress.

She has additional clinical interests in attachment issues, ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and complex relationship patterns. Those struggling with anxiety, panic, bipolar mood fluctuations, or compassion fatigue will find her approach grounded in clear techniques and steady support. She applies evidence-based methods like cognitive strategies and emotion-focused work to practical problems.

Dr. Houshmand offers sessions in English and works with clients across the UK and internationally. Therapy can be delivered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying what matters most to them and taking small steps towards those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and practising practical skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps clients build healthier ways of relating and understanding emotional triggers.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through the options and work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. Plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and useful.

Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls replicate a face-to-face session for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work or family commitments and to keep momentum between appointments.