Petina Walker, BACP
17 years in practice
Petina Walker is a counsellor with 17 years of experience based in the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- BACP
- 53359 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
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About Petina
Petina Walker is a counsellor with 17 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has worked across clinical and community settings. Petina aims to help people gain clarity and make steady changes in their lives through attentive listening and a practical approach to sessions.
Her work draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy and attachment-informed ways of thinking, alongside client-centred and mindfulness approaches.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what a person brings that day, so interventions are adapted to immediate needs rather than following a fixed script. Petina often helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strain and issues with self-esteem.
She has a long history of supporting people affected by substance misuse, domestic difficulties and trauma, and has experience running groups, assessments and one-to-one work in clinical teams. Petina previously ran a wellbeing centre for many years and has also worked as a trainer and drugs and alcohol professional. This background informs a practical, experience-led style in sessions.
In conversation she aims to be calm and direct, using clear language and simple tools such as motivational interviewing and mindfulness techniques when helpful. Her approach is collaborative - she and the person in front of her decide what will help most in each session. Petina offers online formats including video, phone, live chat and messaging.
She welcomes people from different backgrounds and can work with issues such as trauma and bereavement, eating and sleep problems, parenting stress, compassion fatigue and life transitions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Petina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Petina names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
How attachment and emotion work online
Petina often draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and change patterns in emotional responses and relationship-related distress. EFT focuses on identifying core feelings and creating new ways of responding that reduce repeated cycles of hurt.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust. This approach helps people see why they react a certain way and supports building more supported ways of relating. Petina works in a client-centred way too, meaning sessions follow what the person brings and are shaped around their priorities.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Petina uses a collaborative process to find what fits each person's needs and goals, checking in and adapting methods as therapy progresses. Together they decide whether to focus on emotions, attachment patterns, mindfulness exercises or practical behaviour steps.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and easier access from different locations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and day-to-day life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Petina support?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, trauma and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are collaborative and practical, blending Emotionally-Focused ideas, attachment-informed thinking, client-centred listening and mindfulness techniques as needed.
How much experience does she have?
Petina has 17 years of experience in counselling, group work and drug and alcohol services, including assessment and brief intervention roles.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
How does cost work for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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