Josie Peacock , NCPS

Josie Peacock is a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor (NCPS), bringing five years of experience from work in private practice, the NHS, and charitable roles in end of life and palliative care. She offers calm, steady support for people facing both immediate difficulties and long-standing concerns, guiding them through conversations about present struggles and past traumas in a way that reduces the anxiety of opening up.

Josie has supported clients who feel stuck or unable to find motivation and practical tools to move forward. She works collaboratively to help clients build confidence, strengthen self-esteem, and develop sustainable self-care practices. Her approach is warm and friendly while remaining focused on the goals each client wants to achieve.

Respect, personal nature of sessions, compassion, and nonjudgemental listening are core to her practice. Josie aims to be a steady presence through difficult work, offering practical guidance and emotional support as clients explore their feelings and make changes. She does not promise that the work is always easy, but she is committed to helping clients progress toward the outcomes they hope to reach.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and encourages commitment to values-based action; it is often used for anxiety, stress, avoidance, and difficulties with motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships influence current patterns of relating and emotional responses, helping with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and relational trauma. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical coping strategies that can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Josie collaborates with clients to determine which approach or combination of approaches best fits their needs, goals, and personal preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in that process through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and travel, and allow clients to access licensed professionals and therapists from different locations while maintaining continuity of care.