About Rebeca
Rebeca Paiva is a counsellor with eight years' experience working with adults facing anxiety, stress and life transitions. She holds a Master’s in Health Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Rebeca offers therapy in English and Portuguese and accepts international clients.
Her practice builds on a humanistic, person-centred foundation. She blends that with cognitive behavioural ideas and solution-focused techniques.
Background and approach
This means sessions combine listening and understanding with practical steps to try between meetings. Rebeca often helps people who struggle with low self-worth, overthinking, panic and burnout. She supports work on relationships, attachment patterns, communication problems and the lingering effects of past wounds.
Her work also includes support for grief, addiction concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, and coping with chronic health changes. In sessions she looks at feelings, behaviours and repeated patterns. She helps clients identify core beliefs and the strengths they already have.
Conversations aim to increase confidence, build resilience and improve everyday functioning. Therapy with Rebeca is collaborative and paced to each person. She offers tools for managing stress, emotional regulation and motivation, while also exploring the personal history behind current difficulties.
People leave with clearer ways to handle triggers and more steady ways of coping.
Approaches that suit online therapy and your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a life in a meaningful direction, which can help with anxiety and overwhelm. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand their needs and reactions in relationships and build safer ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and past experience and then recommend ways of working together. This is collaborative so adjustments can be made as understanding deepens and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less data and can fit a shorter break in a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflection or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to continue therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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