Peter Waters
Practical, empathic support for life's difficult moments
About Peter
Peter Waters began his counselling career over 17 years ago in the United Kingdom. He holds NCPS and has worked across a range of difficulties including stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. Peter writes plainly and focuses on practical ways to make life feel more manageable.
He approaches sessions with respect and sensitivity. He adapts conversations to each person's needs and helps people set clear, realistic goals. He aims to make the first steps less daunting and to offer steady support during change.
Background and approach
Peter uses several well-known methods such as client-centred listening and cognitive tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts. He also draws on mindfulness and existential ideas to help people notice patterns and make values-based choices. These approaches are used to suit the issue at hand rather than follow a fixed formula.
Common concerns he works with include relationship and intimacy difficulties, addiction and bipolar challenges, eating and sleeping problems, and grief. He also helps people with attachment and abandonment histories, autism-related concerns, and the emotional impact of separation or domestic violence. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps.
Peter can offer a mix of short-term and longer-term work depending on what a person needs. He aims to help people feel more confident in coping with everyday pressures and major life changes.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions. It is useful for building trust and exploring relationship or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Peter will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest a way forward. This is a collaborative decision and can change as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions take place. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options help people access consistent care around work, travel or other 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
