About Rita
Rita Da Silva is a counsellor with 17 years' experience helping people through stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She works in a calm, respectful manner and aims to create a space where people feel heard and able to make changes. Rita speaks English and Portuguese and practices from the United Kingdom.
Rita keeps sessions practical and straightforward. She listens first, then helps clients identify patterns that keep them stuck.
How Rita works
Conversations focus on manageable steps people can try between sessions. She pays attention to how past relationships affect current feelings, including issues around abandonment and attachment. Her work also covers concerns such as body image, caregiver stress, communication and control issues.
Clients explore emotions linked to divorce, guilt, shame and forgiveness. Rita supports people struggling with panic attacks, social anxiety and feelings of isolation or loneliness. She helps those looking for clarity about life purpose, self-love and sexuality.
Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer work to change long-standing patterns. Rita adapts her pace to each person and checks in about what is and isn’t helpful. Rita draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in a way that fits each client's needs.
She encourages practical experiments and reflective work between appointments. People who prefer working in Portuguese can use that language during sessions.
What Rita works with
The areas below are the ones Rita selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Rita adapts evidence-based approaches online
Rita uses evidence-based techniques in a clear, practical way. She helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with small experiments, which is useful for anxiety, panic and negative self-beliefs. She also works on understanding past relationship patterns and attachment, helping people see how old wounds shape current reactions and closeness to others.Choosing the right approach happens together. Rita will listen to your concerns, talk about possible ways to work and agree a plan that fits your goals and preferences. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so the method matches what actually helps you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging lets people write things out and use therapy between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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