About Rebeca
Rebeca Paiva is a counsellor with eight years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety and depression. She works with people who are facing relationship problems, trauma and the long shadow of past wounds. Rebeca also supports those dealing with parenting strain, grief, addictions, low self-esteem and sleep or eating concerns.
She trained in psychology and holds a Master’s in Health Psychology alongside a BACP accreditation. Rebeca combines a humanistic, person-centred stance with practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused work.
How Rebeca works
The result is a balance of listening and hands-on tools for day-to-day coping. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that cause distress and finding small changes that make life easier. Rebeca helps people notice triggers, challenge the inner critic and build skills for emotional regulation and communication.
She aims for outcomes that feel manageable and realistic for each person. She also works with people who struggle with attachment wounds, codependency, abandonment and issues around intimacy and kink. Rebeca pays attention to how earlier experiences shape current reactions and relationships, and she helps clients explore those links without blame.
Rebeca offers therapy in English and Portuguese and accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her practice uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, with sessions available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Rebeca lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Rebeca works with
The areas below are the ones Rebeca selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change how they relate to others. This can be helpful for intimacy, abandonment or codependency issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This collaborative process means the plan can change as needs become clearer and progress is made.
Online sessions can be arranged by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter sessions or when someone wants to write rather than speak. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and different time zones, while still working with registered or accredited professionals to get support.
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