About Pegah
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered practitioner psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and has around 12 years of experience across NHS and personal settings.
Her practice aims to help people move through difficult periods and find clearer ways to cope. Her work blends several approaches to suit each person’s needs. She draws on somatic ideas that pay attention to body sensations, cognitive tools to notice and change unhelpful thinking, and relationship-focused methods that look at attachment patterns.
Background and approach
Therapy is presented as a collaborative effort where goals are agreed together. Sessions are offered in a calm, non-judgemental manner. Conversations may include practical exercises, noticing bodily responses, and trying small changes between sessions.
Pegah also uses creative and play-based ways when working with younger clients, and she offers space for parents to reflect on their child’s needs. She has supported people with a wide range of concerns, such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and relationship strain.
Additional focuses include ADHD, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and adoption or abandonment issues. Therapy may suit people who want a thoughtful, evidence-informed approach that includes attention to body and emotion. Sessions can be arranged online by following the platform's matching and booking steps.
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Somatic-informed work pays attention to body sensations and physical responses during stressful moments. It helps people notice how tension, breath and posture relate to feelings and can complement talking therapy when addressing trauma, anxiety or long-standing stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and practical action. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose steps that match what matters to them in life.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships. It helps people understand how early bonds shape current reactions and supports changes in how they relate to others and feel safe emotionally.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore your needs, goals and preferences and together you will choose or combine methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and may shift as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and reduced travel. Sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue support across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English