About Peta
Peta Carmock is a warm, down-to-earth counsellor who aims to make reaching out feel manageable. She focuses on creating a calm space where people can be heard without judgment. Many clients come feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start, and she helps them take practical steps forward.
Peta uses a collaborative style that mixes talking with practical tools. She draws on somatic ideas to notice how the body holds stress, and on evidence-based talking therapies to help shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are grounded and paced to suit each person’s needs. Her work covers common concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, grief and major life changes. She also supports people facing relationship challenges, low self-worth, burnout, chronic health worries, and difficulties with focus or regulation.
She often helps with overthinking, people-pleasing and feelings of disconnection. Clients can expect a combination of listening, reflection and simple strategies to use between sessions. The aim is to build small, sustainable changes rather than quick fixes.
Peta keeps things practical and compassionate so therapy feels usable in everyday life. She brings nine years of clinical experience and holds PACFA accreditation. Sessions are offered in English and structured to match what each person needs and prefers.
Peta offers a steady, supportive presence for anyone wanting to work through current struggles and build coping skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how sensations and tension in the body connect with emotions and behaviour; noticing breath, posture and bodily cues can help with anxiety, trauma responses and regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions aligned with their values to move forward. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre - the therapist listens reflectively and follows the client’s pace to build safety and clarity.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide what feels most helpful based on a person’s goals, preferences and what comes up in sessions. Peta will check in and adjust methods over time so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people join from home or elsewhere and choose shorter check-ins or longer conversations as needed. For many, this flexibility helps fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day demands while maintaining continuity of care with an appropriately qualified or registered professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English