About Me

Hello and welcome! 

My name is Peggy Bishop. I am a dedicated, passionate, and highly qualified integrative counsellor of 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 children and young people to be able to express themselves without being judged. Somewhere that they are accepted and celebrated for who they are. A place where together we can explore emotions and any difficulties they may be experiencing and discover coping strategies that work for the individual child or young person. 

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 over two 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 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 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

 - Postgraduate diploma (Level 7) in counselling children and young people (2022)

- How to do counselling online: a coronavirus primer - The OU and the BACP (2020)

- Bachelor of Science (Honours) in psychology (2014)

- CACHE Level 3 Award in Childcare and Education (2018)

- SEN Certificate (2018)

- Certificate - Child Positive Discipline course - Attachment Parenting UK (2018)

- Certificate - Safeguarding in Education: Early Years - Child Protection Company (2017)

- Certificate - Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2016)

- Certificate in Humanities (2007)

- Certificate in Social Sciences (2006)

- Teacher and owner of Green Meadows School (Home School) (North Carolina, USA) 

2021

- Bereaved Children

- Children and Loss

- Introducing Creative Arts in Counselling

- Grief and Bereavement

- Working With Young People

- Talking Respectfully About Sexuality and Gender Identity

- Working With Children in Therapy 

- The Teenage Brain

- Working With Goals in Therapy

- Bereavement Awareness

- Minority Stress Processes in LGB Individuals

- Working With Eating Disorders

- Counselling Autistic Clients

- Assessing Effectiveness in Online Therapy

- Using Trauma-Informed Grounding Techniques

- Working With Suicidal Clients 

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 

• Person-Centered Therapy 

• Integrative Therapy 

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy 

• Creative Therapies 

• Play Therapy 

• Systemic Family Therapy

• Humanistic Approach 

• Mindfulness

• Emotional Support 

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Eating Disorders

• LGBTQ+ 

• Gender Dysphoria

• Gender Anxiety

• Gender and Gender Identification 

• Trauma

• Abuse

• Bereavement

• Bullying

• Dissociation

• Emotional Abuse

• Low Self-Esteem

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Attachment 

• Suicide Awareness

• Self-Care

• Addiction

•  ADHD

•  Affairs and betrayals

• Alcoholism

• Anger management

• ARFID

• Autism

• Avoidant personality disorder

• Binge-eating disorder

• Bipolar disorder

• Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

• Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

• Cancer

• Childless not by choice

• Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME

• Chronic illness

• Depression

• Depression and anxiety in children

• Disabilities

• Domestic abuse

• Eating disorders

• Emotional abuse

• Family issues

• Health anxiety

• HIV/AIDS

• Infertility

• Jealousy

• Loneliness

• Menopause

• Miscarriage

• Narcissistic abuse

• Neurodiversity

• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

• Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

• Panic attacks

• Paranoia

• Perfectionism

• Personality disorders

• Phobias

• Physical abuse

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Race and racial identity

• Racism

• Relationship problems

• Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

• Self-harm

• Separation and divorce

• Separation anxiety

• Sexual abuse

• Sexual assault

• Social anxiety

• Spirituality

• Stress

• Trichotillomania

• Young carers

- Owner and counsellor at Shy Little Violets Counselling

- Counsellor for YiS young people counseling at Milton Keynes

- Freelance counsellour

'If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.'

- Emily Dickinson