About Regina
Regina Riley works from a person-centred, attachment-aware approach. She emphasises the therapeutic relationship as the starting point for change. Regina speaks plainly and listens without judgement to help people make sense of difficult feelings.
She uses ideas from cognitive and trauma-focused approaches when helpful. Regina meets people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed or stuck after loss and life changes. She also helps those coping with addiction, anger, intimacy concerns and issues around self-esteem.
How Regina works
People looking for support with relationship and family tensions or parenting strain can bring those concerns into sessions. Her background includes four years working with adults on a range of mental health and life stress issues. Regina holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is shown as BACP.
She draws on attachment theory to understand relationship patterns and on psychodynamic thinking to look at past influences. In practice she uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people try out new ways of thinking and acting. Trauma-focused approaches are used when past events continue to cause symptoms.
All work is adapted to the person in front of her and to what they want to achieve. Sessions are conducted in English and in Ndebele dialects. Regina accepts clients in the United Kingdom and international clients.
She offers a calm, accepting space to talk through fears, grief, identity questions and practical problems.
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What Regina works with
The areas below are the ones Regina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Ndebele, South, Ndebele, North |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on relationships and recovery
Regina often combines attachment-based thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques in online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people create a more supported way of relating to themselves and others. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours to reduce anxiety, low mood or problematic coping such as substance use.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Regina will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods over time. That means decisions about focus and techniques are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and shorter check-ins work well via chat or text. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel, and to maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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