Petina Walker
Attentive counsellor for addiction and relationship struggles
About Petina
Petina Walker trained in counselling and has worked in the helping professions for many years. She is a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) member with 17 years of clinical experience. Petina draws on a mix of practical approaches to help people gain clarity and move forward.
She is based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions online in English. Petina takes a client-led approach and lets each session be shaped by what the person brings.
Background and approach
She uses attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and emotionally-focused methods to help people notice and name their feelings. Motivational interviewing and mindfulness techniques are used to support change and build coping skills. Her background includes work in drugs and alcohol services, group facilitation and running a wellbeing centre.
That experience means she is familiar with addiction, codependency and the stress that often sits alongside those problems. She has also supported people with grief, trauma, eating and sleep difficulties, and issues around self-esteem and career changes. Sessions typically focus on practical steps alongside exploring emotional patterns.
People can expect listening, reflective questioning and short exercises to practise between sessions. Petina often links past attachment experiences to current relationship and intimacy challenges and works with people to develop new, healthier ways of relating. She offers several formats of online contact and will work with each person to decide what suits their needs and goals.
The emphasis is on a respectful, steady pace so people feel understood and able to try different ways of coping.
What Petina works with
How Petina works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation to help people notice repeating behaviours and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on recognising and naming emotions in the moment. In virtual sessions this means gently guiding people to identify core feelings and then practising different responses that can ease conflict and improve intimacy.
Client-centred therapy prioritises the person's own pace and goals. The counsellor offers non-judgemental listening and reflection so people can explore what matters most and find their own solutions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Petina will discuss options with each person and adapt techniques based on their needs, goals and preferences. Together they decide what to try and when to change course if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still working through emotional and behavioural challenges.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
