About Rebecca
Rebecca Rust-Ashford is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and the impact of trauma. She works with individuals who feel overwhelmed by low mood, relationship difficulties or worries about self-worth. Rebecca holds BACP accreditation which she uses to guide her practice in the United Kingdom.
Her approach draws on several methods so she can adapt to each person's needs. Sessions are straightforward and centred on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Rebecca aims to create a calm space where someone can talk through painful memories, current pressures or patterns that cause repeated upset. She uses client-centred ways of working to listen closely and follow the person’s lead. For trauma-related issues she may combine trauma-focused techniques and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing when appropriate.
These tools can help reduce the intensity of distressing memories and their hold on day-to-day life. Rebecca has three years of professional experience and has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, self-esteem and relationship strain. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic health challenges, body image and codependency.
Sessions are available online in English across video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People join through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short questionnaire matches someone to a therapist and then appointments are scheduled to fit their situation.
How Rebecca’s approaches work online
Rebecca uses client-centred therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping someone find their own solutions to anxiety, stress and relationship concerns.She also uses trauma-focused therapy to address the effects of difficult or frightening experiences. This approach pays attention to how past events affect current feelings and behaviours, and aims to reduce ongoing distress linked to those memories.
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is another method she may use for trauma. EMDR involves guided bilateral stimulation alongside talking about distressing memories to reduce their intensity and the emotions attached to them.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Rebecca will discuss options and make decisions with each person based on their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed plan handed down by the therapist.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets people use facial cues and tone, phone calls need less bandwidth, chat can suit a quick check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats give flexibility and can help maintain continuity of care when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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