About Selina
Selina Rainford helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, and depression. She also supports those dealing with low self-esteem, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and concerns linked to LGBT identity. She is based in the United Kingdom and brings six years of professional experience and practice to her work.
Selina holds BACP registration, which is recorded as BACP. Selina listens first and then helps people find clearer ways forward.
How Selina works
She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths they already have. Sessions are collaborative and practical, aiming to reduce immediate distress while building longer-term coping skills. Her work covers a broad range of relational and attachment difficulties.
This includes abandonment and attachment issues, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, and codependency and control concerns. She also supports people through separation, blended family pressures, fatherhood issues and forgiveness work. Selina offers help with communication and commitment problems, and she addresses domestic violence and safety-related histories with care.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs rather than a single one-size-fits-all method. People come to Selina when they want practical steps and steady support. She aims to make sessions straightforward and focused, with clear goals and regular check-ins on progress.
Her approach is warm, steady and goal-oriented to help people move toward a more manageable life.
What Selina works with
The areas below are the ones Selina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Selina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she employs helps people address trauma and abuse by working through experiences at a pace that feels manageable, teaching grounding and coping strategies to reduce distress. Another set of methods focuses on anxiety and stress by identifying unhelpful thinking and building more helpful routines and behaviours that lessen worry and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options with the client and adapt methods to the person’s goals, needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is needed, and messaging or chat suits people who prefer written communication or want brief, ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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