About Poppy
Poppy Perrin is a counsellor who takes an integrative path to therapy. She draws on several approaches to shape sessions around what each person needs. Her focus includes stress, anxiety, motivation, self esteem and confidence, plus depression and trauma-related concerns.
Poppy presents therapy as a collaborative process that aims to build practical skills alongside deeper self-understanding. She aims to create a non-judgemental space where clients can speak openly and at their own pace.
Background and approach
Sessions combine talking with exercises and strategies that help manage difficult feelings day to day. That practical element is intended to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence between appointments. Poppy uses somatic ideas alongside psychological methods.
That means attention to how the body carries stress, alongside work with thoughts, values and relationships. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused thinking, client-centred listening and cognitive techniques as the situation calls for. With three years of experience, Poppy brings a steady, down-to-earth style.
She encourages people to set realistic goals and to try small steps that add up over time. The work is paced to each person, with an emphasis on clarity and usable tools. Poppy holds registration as a BACP Therapist - Registered Member (MBACP) and is an NCPS Therapist - Accredited Member (MNCPS Accred).
She sees clients in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion are felt in the body. It often involves noticing breath, posture and bodily sensations alongside speaking about feelings, and can be useful for trauma, anxiety and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions. It uses simple exercises to help people live in ways that matter to them, even when thoughts are difficult.
Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand reacting and relating habits, and supports building different ways of connecting and trusting others.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will discuss preferences and goals, and together they will choose approaches that fit the client's needs. That collaborative process makes space for trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
If you are considering online sessions, check the current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use approaches like body awareness, values-driven exercises and thought work in a familiar setting, while the therapist helps adapt methods to each session's practical constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English