About Rosa
Rosa Tomassi-Bella helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed or stuck. She supports individuals facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, low self‑esteem and the stress of life changes. Rosa offers a calm, attentive presence and practical ways to make sense of hard moments.
Rosa trained academically in psychology. She holds a BSc in Psychology with Neuropsychology and an MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology. She does not practise as a psychologist, but these degrees inform how she understands the links between body, mind and emotional experience.
How Rosa works
Her work is person‑centred and relational. That means sessions are shaped by each person’s experience, values and pace. Rosa focuses on listening carefully, building trust, and helping people feel genuinely heard before moving on to change work.
She draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships affect present feelings and behaviour. Psychodynamic and Jungian ideas can help uncover patterns and meanings that recur across life. Mindfulness techniques are offered to ease overwhelming feelings and to improve moment‑to‑moment coping.
Rosa provides online sessions in ways that suit the individual. She shares optional worksheets and journaling prompts for people who like practical tasks between meetings. Her aim is steady, manageable progress delivered with curiosity, care and respect.
Rosa lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rosa works with
The areas below are the ones Rosa 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Rosa commonly uses attachment ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape present feelings and reactions. This approach can be useful for those who notice repeating patterns in close relationships or who want to feel safer in connection. She also works in a person‑centred way that places the client's experience and values at the heart of the work, offering a listening, non‑judgemental space where people set the pace and direction.Jungian and psychodynamic perspectives may be used to look at underlying themes, recurring patterns and the personal meanings behind distress. These approaches can help when someone wants to explore deeper narratives about identity, loss or recurring relationship difficulties. Mindfulness techniques are also offered to build simple skills for managing overwhelming feelings and improving everyday coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That discussion can change over time as issues shift and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging makes it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video sessions allow face‑to‑face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can suit quick check‑ins or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, helping therapy feel more accessible and manageable.
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