Sally Pettigrew, BACP

Sally Pettigrew is a UK-based counsellor with 11 years of professional experience and a BACP credential. She focuses on relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns. Sally aims to offer calm, practical support and a straightforward way to start making changes.

She trained at master's level in relationship therapy and spent a decade working as a Relate practitioner with couples. That background informs her practical approach to communication problems, infidelity, separation and blended family issues. Sally helps people untangle the everyday patterns that make relationships feel stuck.

Sessions are tailored to each person's needs. Sally listens with respect and sensitivity, then suggests clear steps and conversational techniques people can try between appointments. She also works with issues such as panic attacks, guilt and shame, midlife questions and women's health concerns including pregnancy and childbirth.

Her way of working mixes steady, structured conversations with some lightness when appropriate. She will help clients set realistic goals and check progress along the way. Clients can expect a calm presence that aims to empower rather than judge.

Sally accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally and offers a range of session formats. She does not work evenings or weekends, so sessions are scheduled in standard daytime hours.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Many of Sally's methods come from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on improving communication and managing strong emotions. One approach helps people notice and change interaction patterns so conversations feel less hostile and more constructive; this can help with repeated arguments, infidelity, and blended family tensions. Another approach focuses on managing anxiety and panic by using simple grounding and breathing strategies alongside talking through triggers and responses; this is useful for panic attacks and chronic worry.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Sally will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasise relationship work, anxiety-management skills, or a mix tailored to the person’s situation.

Online therapy makes those options easier to use. Video calls let people work face to face when that feels important, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats help people access therapy around daily commitments and from different locations.