About Rebecca
Rebecca Dickinson is a counsellor with ten years of professional experience who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, loss, and issues around eating and addiction. Rebecca aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and compassion while keeping conversations straightforward and respectful.
Her sessions are shaped around each person's needs. She tailors how she talks and plans next steps so the work feels relevant to daily life.
Background and approach
Rebecca emphasises small, doable changes rather than big leaps. She encourages honest conversation and steady progress. Over a decade in practice has given Rebecca experience with a wide range of concerns.
These include sleep problems, low self-esteem, career stress, parenting strain, and feelings of isolation. She also supports people dealing with attachment difficulties, codependency, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, and the effects of domestic violence. Rebecca has worked with people coping with guilt, shame, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, sexual assault and related trauma, and end-of-life or hospice issues.
She brings practical strategies to help manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day functioning. Based in the United Kingdom, Rebecca is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She provides sessions in English and does not take international clients.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions can offer
Rebecca draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and emotional processing. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxious thoughts and physical stress reactions, teaching breathing and grounding exercises alongside ways to reframe unhelpful thinking patterns. Another approach focuses on processing past trauma and its impact on current life, using paced reflection and coping strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rebecca will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and the problems they want to address. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video lets people read facial expressions and have longer, therapy-style conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and written reflection when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make regular support more flexible and accessible for people managing anxiety and life stress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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