About Rita
Rita Sandhu is a counsellor who blends practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety and stress. She draws on 13 years of therapeutic work and a background in nursing to offer calm, clear support for everyday worries and more complex difficulties. Rita holds BACP membership as a registered member, MBACP (Accred).
She focuses on issues such as anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and addictions. Rita also helps with relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, parenting pressures, career stress and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her practice includes support for people facing chronic health issues, caregiver strain and identity or sexuality questions including LGBT topics. Rita uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Attachment-Based work and client-centred methods. In sessions she aims to keep language simple and practical.
She helps people break problems into manageable steps and build skills they can use between meetings. Her nursing and midwifery background informs a steady, attentive style. That experience shapes how she listens and responds to practical concerns alongside emotional needs.
Rita works with adults and children, adapting her way of working to each person’s situation. People begin by describing what matters most to them. Rita then agrees small, realistic goals and checks progress regularly.
The focus is on usable strategies that fit everyday life, whether the priority is reducing panic, improving sleep or managing low mood.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Rita commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without fighting them and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to reduce panic, challenge unhelpful thinking and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Rita will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and text messaging works for ongoing, brief support. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit sessions around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- 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
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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