About Rita
Rita Sandhu uses a client-centred approach that puts the person first. She combines practical talking therapies with compassionate support to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope. Rita has 13 years of therapy experience and has worked in healthcare for many more years.
She holds BACP registration, which shows she meets national professional standards. She runs sessions in English and is available to work with people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
How Rita works
Rita helps people with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also supports those coping with grief, anger, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and changes such as career shifts or parenting demands. Additional areas include ADHD, self-esteem and issues linked to adoption, attachment and ageing.
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. Sessions usually focus on practical steps you can try between meetings, and on understanding patterns that maintain distress. Conversations are straightforward and paced to the client’s needs.
Rita offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and book according to availability.
Rita lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters to them. It often involves simple exercises to build willingness to face difficult feelings while focusing on personal values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical techniques to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based ideas focus on how early relationship experiences shape current trust and closeness; work here can help people understand relational patterns and develop more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Together they select methods and adjust them as the work proceeds so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility and can fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on the go. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving or when travel would be difficult, while still working with registered or accredited professionals to pursue stated goals.
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