Therapy Now – Online Psychotherapy

A safe, secure place to start

My name is Peter Gregory providing psychological therapy for couples and individuals online.

Could you benefit from talking about your concerns?

Would you like to have a deeper understanding of your thoughts and feelings?

This can be helpful in gaining understanding of difficulties. With this understanding, it is possible to consider new approaches to engage with life (and oneself) more effectively. In short, life is better.

The consideration and practice of new ways of thinking and behaving are important in creating positive change.

My approach includes helping people to develop and use new thinking and strategies: problem solving.

Although I use a variety of approaches and techniques to help clients, it is firstly essential to build a trusting relationship. This starts with the first contact – whether by phone or at the first appointment.

People come to see me because they recognise life is not as they would like it to be. They take the decision to address their difficulties. This is, for many people, the first step in creating change.

Free: each client will be allocated an individual secure communication channel. This can be used to send and receive messages and information for the duration of the therapy

Answers to some of the questions I get asked most regularly including “what happens when”…

In my practice I see people from all walks of life: they have one thing in common – all want to make their life better.

Common difficulties include anxiety in its various forms: work related stress, panic attacks, Generalised Anxiety Disorder and OCD (Obsessional Compulsive Disorder).

Those feeling sad and experiencing depression, often suffer anxiety as well.

There is good news because there are therapy approaches that can help reduce the distress of depression and anxiety: CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) can be especially useful. Linked with mindfulness, this can be effective.

For depression, some clients respond particularly well to an existential psychology approach as the issues are to do with the fact of being human and our limited, transitory existence.

Couples Therapy

Couples seek help to resolve difficulties in their relationship. Issues such as arguments, affairs, anger, drifting apart, and communication concerns are some of the problems couples seek to address. Improvements can mean changes that enable the couple to stay together or it may mean they part.

Couple therapy does not seek to maintain difficult relationships – it can help people to part constructively.

The couple therapy I offer is intended to help untangle the emotional knots frequently experienced. The practice of good communication is often a key element in resolving relationship issues.

The fact of being in a relationship can lead to the surfacing of individual vulnerabilities that may require individual therapy before engaging in couple therapy.

These same vulnerabilities can play out in the context of the relationship in the form of negative cycles. Couple therapy can be useful in gaining an understanding of these patterns and changing them. The focus of couple therapy is on the relationship, rather than a focus on an individual.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma and post-trauma conditions such as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) are, sadly, all too common, but approaches such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and trauma focussed CBT are often effective in relieving distress. Preparation is necessary before going through these as they are potentially difficult, but ultimately freeing.

If you are experiencing any of the above, then get in touch. Perhaps I can be of help.