About Anna
Anna Rita Iaboni is a BACP counsellor who blends talking therapy with life coaching. She draws on her background in performing arts and holistic practices to offer a caring, respectful space for people to make change. Sessions are offered in English and Italian.
She aims to help people take the first steps when life feels overwhelming or stuck. She uses approaches that centre on relationships and personal meaning. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect present feelings and reactions.
How Anna works
Client-centred methods put the person’s experience at the heart of the session so conversations follow the client’s pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping. Psychodynamic and existential ideas are drawn on to look at deeper life questions and patterns that repeat over time.
Anna Rita adapts these methods to each person’s needs rather than following a fixed script. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, eating and sleeping difficulties, addiction, ADHD, grief and relationship struggles. She also helps with issues such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, attachment difficulties and intimacy-related matters.
Appointments follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. People can expect straightforward scheduling and practical discussion about goals and techniques in early sessions. The focus is on steady progress and on finding ways to manage everyday challenges more effectively.
Anna lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Anna works with
The areas below are the ones Anna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How different approaches work online
Anna Rita draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships still affect feelings and behaviour today; this can help with intimacy issues, insecurity and repeated patterns. Client-centred therapy keeps the client's experience central, using empathy and non-judgemental listening so people can find their own solutions at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new coping strategies to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is often part of the work itself. She will discuss options with each person and agree on a way forward based on goals, preferences and the problems at hand. The process is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lifestyles. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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