About Rita
Rita Hercska is a counselling psychologist registered with the HCPC who works in English and Hungarian. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. Rita speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel less daunting for someone unsure where to begin.
She uses a client-centred approach that puts the person's experience first. Sessions are collaborative and tailored, with Rita helping clients identify goals and build on strengths.
Background and approach
Her style is warm, interactive and practical rather than overly technical. Rita draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help with unhelpful thinking and patterns. She also uses mindfulness practices to build moment-to-moment coping skills and reduce reactivity.
Psychodynamic thinking and family systems ideas are used when exploring past relationships and family patterns that affect current life. Across six years of practice she has supported people facing family problems, parenting strain, work stress, grief and relationship difficulties. She also helps with sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem and career concerns, as well as trauma and compassion fatigue.
She is clear about limits of online work and does not provide legal or court documentation, diagnostic reports or letters for clinical purposes. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
How these approaches work well online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. In sessions the therapist listens, reflects and helps the client identify goals, resources and next steps. This approach suits people who want a collaborative, personalised process.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises, simple experiments and homework to try between appointments, which can help with anxiety, sleep and mood problems.
Mindfulness Therapy introduces short attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping. These exercises are easy to practise between sessions and can be guided over video or audio calls.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then tailor methods to the person. That collaborative process allows adjustments as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins and messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments, and to keep practising tools in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hungarian
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