About Me

Hello and welcome! 

My name is Peggy. I am a dedicated, passionate, and highly qualified integrative counsellor who specializes in children and young people. I am passionate about helping children and young people to be able to help themselves.

I offer a safe environment for individuals  to be able to express themselves without being judged. Somewhere that you are accepted and celebrated for who you are. A place where together we can explore emotions and any difficulties you may be experiencing and discover coping strategies that work for the you. 

I feel that there is a huge need for more support for our children and young people. I have a specialist interest in working with LGBTQIA+ children and young people. I have a deep understanding of the issues and problems that the LGBTQIA+ community are affected by. I want to help give a voice to those in the community, a chance to be heard and to know that they have a safe place of which they can do so.

I provide short and long term counselling sessions remotely by telephone and online. I have years of telephone and online experience of working with children and young people. I am warm, caring and nonjudgmental. I can offer your child or young person a safe place where they can speak openly and freely without the worry of being judged or not being heard. I am adept and efficient with a compassionate understanding of a wide range of client needs. I believe strongly in confidentiality and building therapeutic connection.

As I, myself, am neurodivergent, I have an understanding of what it is like to live in a world that is not designed for you. For neurodivergent clients,  I can offer an understanding, nonjudgmental ear and provide you with tools to help you in a world that was not designed for us.

As an integrative  counsellor, I use a range of therapeutic techniques and approaches, such as person centred, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, systemic family therapy, and creative therapies, just to name a few.

I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists), working within their Ethical Framework for Good Practice. My registration number is 393127. I also hold full indemnity insurance, registered with the Information Commission Office (ICO) and have an updated enhanced DBS. My working experience ranges from owning my own private practice, a counsellour for a children’s mental health charity, a schoolteacher and a nursery nurse.

I have knowledge and experience of working in many areas including LGBTQ+, emotional support, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, trauma, abuse, bereavement, bullying, low self-esteem, obsessive compulsive disorder, self-harm, suicide awareness, and self-care.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my daughter, dog and two cats. My hobbies include painting, photography and collecting Alice in Wonderland memorabilia.

If you would like to find out more and see if we'll be able to work together, please contact me for a free initial 30 minute session by :

Telephone: 

07361 533895 

or 

Email: shylittlevioletscounselling@gmail.com

2022

- Counselling ADHD

- Emotion Focused Therapy

- Preparing to Work With Sexual Abuse

- Grief Recovery Method

- Trauma and the Brain

- Counselling For Chronic Illness

- Practicing Walk-and-Talk Counselling and Other Ecotherapy

- Working With Personality Disorders

- Stockholm Syndrome 

- Working With Autism

- Understanding and Working With Attachment Styles

- Trauma and Brain Plasticity

- Introduction to Suicide Awareness

- Self Care

- Self-Concept in Person-Centered Therapy

- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

- Tackling Destructive Thought Patterns

- Building Relational Depth With Traumatized Clients

- Attachment Theory

- Dyslexia

- Using Silence Effectively

- Hard to Help Clients

- Providing Time-Limited Counselling

- Recognizing and Working With Narcissistic Personality Clients

- Understanding Anxiety Disorders and Supportive Strategies

- Understanding and Managing Loneliness 

- Exploring Suicidal Risk With Clients

2023

- BACP - Children, Young people and Families conference, 2023

- Difficult or traumatised? In therapy and the education system

- Keeping child’s mind in mind: learning from voices and

experiences of young people

- 'Normal' and 'abnormal' eating in a world of plentiful food and body shape 

pre-conception

- Understanding eating disorders

- Stress management and resilience in turbulent times

- Mermaids - Transgender Awareness, Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Young People

- Why Pronouns Matter

- Queer Therapy: Where We’ve Come From and Where We’re Going  

- Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

- Self-care in Bereavement Work

2024

- Working With Complex Grief, Part One and Two

- Integrating Coaching Into Your Counselling Practice    

- BACP - Children, Young People and Families Conference,  2024 

- Working With Harmful Sexual Behaviours

- Ethical Framework Review 2024 

- Men’s Health   

- Self Care For Practitioners    

- Anxiety: Where It Comes From And How To Work With It

- Working With Cancer  

- Working With Addictions 

- So What Have We Learned From Our Research Over the Last Year?

- Chemsex: What it is and how to work with it

- AGM 2024 Conference

- Releasing Trauma safely and effectively

- Anger energy vs. aggression

2025

- Working with Depression: Cause and Solution

- UKTC: Creating Healing Environments

- Working with Shame and Low Self-Esteem

- The Cause and Solution for Depression

- How to Thrive with Adult ADHD

- Working with Shame: The UnShaming Way

- Story Stems Assessment Profile (SSAP) Introductory

-  Understanding and Working with Compulsive Sexual Behaviour Disorder and Sex/Porn Addiction

- Working Therapeutically with Dissociation

- The Effects of Trauma on Children's Brain Development

- Doing Life in Hard Mode

- Neurodivergent CYP&F Experiences of Accessing, Engagement and Non-Engagement with Therapy

- Neurodivergence Informed Family Therapy

- Survivor Voices

- Domestic abuse – how can you help your clients

- The cause and solution for depression

- UK Trauma Council Insight Series: Creating Healing Environments - Evidence-Based Principles for Recovery after Trauma

- Emotional Regulation

- How to Thrive with Adult ADHD

- How to sleep well and why it matters

- Trauma reframed: chronic pain therapy and training

- From chaos to order – complex trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents

- Supporting children who have experienced early childhood trauma and broken attachments

2026

- Workshop Introduction to working with Sexual Compulsivity

- Understanding the biology of fear and trauma

- Supporting Children Affected by Trauma in Complex Situations

- Get Trauma-Informed: 6 keys to working with Trauma

- Working therapeutically with trans (including non-binary) people: What does ‘good’ look like?

- LGBTQIA+ Building Resilience Workshop

- Owner and counsellor at Shy Little Violets Counselling

- Counsellor for YiS young people counseling at Milton Keynes

- Freelance counsellour