About Roberta
Roberta Gomes is a counsellor who helps people manage anxiety, stress and other emotional challenges. She speaks English and Portuguese and draws on three years of clinical experience in Australia to guide practical steps forward. Roberta aims to make sessions calm and straightforward for worried parents reading on their phone.
Roberta uses a client-centred style that starts with the person's goals. She listens closely, helps name what is most worrying, and works with each person to set small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical strategies for sleeping, coping with strong feelings, and reducing day-to-day stress. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with grounding and staying present when anxiety rises.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas can help people move toward the life they value, even when distressing thoughts or feelings remain. Roberta supports people dealing with relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, trauma and long-term conditions such as chronic pain. She can help with self-esteem, anger and life transitions.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual’s needs. Practical session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Roberta works within a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and will help you decide which format suits your routine and communication style.
How Roberta brings ACT, CBT and mindfulness online
Roberta commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thinking and commit to small steps that match their values. ACT often helps with ongoing anxiety and life changes by focusing on action rather than struggling with every thought.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify thinking patterns that increase distress and to test new behaviours that reduce symptoms. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and it can be helpful for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood.
Mindfulness Therapy is used alongside these approaches to teach simple grounding exercises and short attention practices. These techniques support emotional regulation and can be practised between sessions to reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Roberta will talk about different options, listen to your goals, and adapt methods so they fit your needs and preferences. The plan can change as you try strategies and see what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face to face when you need longer discussion. Phone can be a lower-bandwidth choice for check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, brief coaching or when writing feels easier. These options aim to make therapy flexible so it fits around school, work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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