Peter Plaistowe
Understanding counselling with practical focus
About Peter
Peter Plaistowe is a BACP counsellor with eight years' experience offering a calm, respectful approach. He focuses on creating a caring relationship so people feel able to talk about difficult thoughts and feelings. Peter aims to help people make sense of their experience and take practical steps forward.
He has worked a great deal with anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, and issues at work. Bereavement is a particular area of experience, including loss linked to substance misuse.
Background and approach
He also helps people struggling with trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and major life changes. Peter describes his way of working as integrative. He draws on different evidence-based approaches to suit each person's situation.
That might mean looking at past patterns to understand current difficulties or using clearer strategies to manage stress and anxiety. Sessions can be short-term for a specific problem or longer-term when deeper exploration is needed. He values a practical balance - reflecting on the past to inform change in the present.
Peter also addresses topics such as forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and life purpose. He offers therapy for career-related stress, money worries and midlife shifts as well as emotional concerns such as grief and loss. Peter conducts sessions in English and works with people across the United Kingdom.
If someone wants to talk through options, he offers a short initial phone conversation to discuss needs and suitability.
What Peter works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Peter draws on well-established therapeutic approaches and adapts them for online work. Person-centred counselling focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience; it helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to explore feelings. Cognitive behavioural techniques look at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offer practical strategies to reduce anxiety and manage low mood.He views finding the right approach as a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals, try techniques and adjust the plan as needed. That shared decision-making means the method can change if it does not suit the person's needs or preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter exchanges, ongoing reflection between sessions or when someone prefers typing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
