About Rebecca
Rebecca Armstrong is a psychotherapeutic counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and family issues. She creates a steady, non-judgemental space to talk through what feels overwhelming. Rebecca aims to make things clearer so people can take small, practical steps forward.
She has five years of experience working with people who identify as neurodivergent or who live with disabilities. Rebecca focuses on uncovering strengths and breaking down barriers such as imposter syndrome and persistent self-doubt.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try different coping strategies. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused. Rebecca listens, asks questions, and helps people set realistic next steps they can try between meetings.
The work often covers relationships, parenting challenges, stress, and intimacy-related concerns alongside mood and anxiety symptoms. Her approach also addresses longer-standing issues such as attachment injuries, abandonment wounds, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Rebecca supports people dealing with life transitions, separation or divorce, and complex feelings like guilt or shame.
She also works with practical problems linked to chronic illness and fertility concerns. Rebecca is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and meets people across the United Kingdom and internationally through online formats.
To begin, she asks people to describe their current struggles so the early work can focus on what matters most.
How Rebecca brings therapeutic approaches online
Rebecca draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding patterns and building new skills. One approach she uses helps people recognise unhelpful thoughts and habits, then practises different ways of responding so anxiety and low mood feel less overpowering. This is useful for stress, panic and everyday worry.She often works in ways that attend to attachment and abandonment wounds, helping people make sense of relationship patterns and improve emotional connection. That work can help when people struggle with intimacy, repeated relationship difficulties or persistent self-doubt. Rebecca also adapts methods that support neurodivergent people and those facing chronic illness, by breaking tasks into smaller steps and finding coping strategies that fit daily life.
Choosing the best approach is part of the therapy process. Rebecca collaborates with each person to decide what to try first, checks progress, and adjusts methods based on goals and preferences. Clients shape the pace and focus of the work together with her.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls let people use non-verbal cues while meeting from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching-style work easier to fit around busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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