Dr. Pegah Houshmand, HCPC
12 years in practice
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with 12 years of experience working in the NHS and personal settings across the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- HCPC
- PYL045646 · expires May 2027
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Pegah
Dr. Pegah Houshmand is a HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist with 12 years of experience working in the NHS and personal settings across the United Kingdom. She holds a doctorate in counselling psychology and focuses on helping people navigate stressful life events, relationship difficulties and emotional distress.
Dr Houshmand aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who are worried or unsure where to begin. Her practice takes an integrative approach that brings together different methods to suit each person's needs.
Background and approach
She works collaboratively to set goals and chooses techniques that match the problem at hand and the client's preferences. Sessions emphasise listening, clear explanation, and small steps people can try between meetings. Dr Houshmand commonly supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, stress and relationship concerns.
She also works with issues around self-esteem, intimacy, sleeping and eating difficulties, and long-term health challenges. Her interest in attachment and life stages informs how she looks at relationship patterns and coping styles. She has particular experience supporting LGBT clients, people facing career and parenting strains, and those managing compassion fatigue or burnout.
She also offers help around ADHD, bipolar mood difficulties, and complex coping such as codependency and body image struggles. Sessions may include practical strategies and reflective work to build healthier habits. Dr Houshmand blends Jungian ideas with therapies like acceptance and commitment and cognitive behavioural approaches when suitable.
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centred work to create a respectful, exploratory space. This flexible mix means therapy is shaped around the person, not a rigid model.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Pegah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Pegah names
- Jungian Therapy
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that shape online sessions
Jungian Therapy in her work offers a way to explore personal meaning, dreams and recurring life patterns to help people understand deeper themes behind distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and still move towards a life that matters to them through values-based action. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build more supported, supportive ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what matters to the client, try a few methods, and adapt as progress or new challenges appear. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences and goals shape the path forward.
Online therapy with this counsellor can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and body language, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or travel, and help maintain continuity of support when life gets busy.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this counsellor address?
She supports many common problems including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and relationship difficulties. Additional areas include self-esteem, eating and sleeping issues, ADHD and coping with life changes.
How would she describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, helps set clear goals and uses techniques chosen with the client to address real-life problems.
What is her professional background?
She holds a doctorate in counselling psychology and has around 12 years of experience working in both the NHS and personal sector.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is HCPC registered and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is payment and cost arranged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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