Rebecca Matthews, BACP

Rebecca Matthews offers a calm, non-judgemental place to talk through what is worrying you. She presents herself plainly and aims to help people set achievable goals and take small, practical steps toward them. Rebecca is named here so you know who you would be working with. Rebecca has six years' experience as a counsellor and is a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP. She uses a person-centred style as a foundation and draws on cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour approaches and mindfulness tools when these suit a person’s situation. In practice this means sessions focus on what matters to each person and on developing skills for coping with painful feelings. Many people come to Rebecca for relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, low self-esteem, depression, stress and anxiety. She also pays attention to issues linked with attachment, abandonment and codependency, plus difficulties such as panic attacks, communication problems and feelings of emptiness or shame. When working together Rebecca helps people set clear, manageable goals. She explains techniques, practises skills in session and looks at how to apply them day to day. The tone is compassionate and straightforward rather than clinical. If you want to begin, the usual first step is to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. That begins the process of arranging sessions that fit your needs and Rebecca's availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Rebecca uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside her person-centred foundation. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions rather than getting stuck, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and difficulties making changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early attachment influences current feelings and reactions, which is often helpful for intimacy and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Rebecca will talk with you about your goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses, with techniques added or reduced to suit what is most helpful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, avoid travel time and keep check-ins brief when needed. They also let people practise techniques at home and bring real-life situations into discussion so skills can be applied between meetings.