José Pereira, BACP

José Pereira is a counsellor and psychotherapist with a Master of Science in Counselling and 22 years of experience in addiction and related mental health work. He holds BACP registration and has extensive experience in residential treatment settings. He works in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and practises in the United Kingdom.

He has spent much of his career working with compulsive behaviours, substance addiction and co-occurring mental health issues. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, depressed or struggling with relationship and family problems. He also works with concerns often linked to attachment, abandonment, control issues and codependency.

In previous roles he has worked as a counsellor, senior counsellor, head therapist and clinical manager. That meant supervising multidisciplinary teams and running long-term programmes aimed at sustained change. He has led psychoeducational workshops and interpersonal therapy groups as well as one-to-one work.

His practice draws on multiple approaches. He uses cognitive behavioural techniques alongside acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behaviour strategies and attachment-focused ways of working. He describes his work as integrative, matching methods to what a person needs in the moment.

In sessions he focuses on concrete skills and on patterns that keep people stuck. He supports practical steps for managing urges, improving communication and setting boundaries. People can expect straightforward discussion about behaviours, emotions and what to try next.

How his approaches work in online sessions