Peggy Bishop, BACP

Peggy Bishop helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also supports those coping with relationship strain, addiction, grief and issues around intimacy. Peggy has particular experience with LGBT concerns and can help with eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, parenting stress and career-related worries.

Peggy takes a warm, nonjudgemental approach. She aims to create a calm space where people can say what they need to. She listens carefully and responds with practical ideas and small steps to try between sessions.

Her work combines a few clear methods. Peggy uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings. She draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and to practise different behaviours. Mindfulness techniques are used to develop calmer thinking and better focus.

Over seven years she has worked with many different concerns, including trauma and abuse, bereavement, self-esteem and chronic health issues. Peggy also pays attention to less talked-about areas like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.

She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and she sees people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions that suit the client.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and behaviour. It helps when problems involve trust, closeness or fear of abandonment. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Peggy will work with clients to find the best approach together. She treats matching the method to the person's needs as a collaborative process. Goals, preferences and what feels manageable will guide which techniques are tried first, and approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and seeing non-verbal cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or messaging may suit short check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.