Rebecca Matthews, BACP

Rebecca Matthews is a counsellor and a BACP member with six years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She helps people with relationship problems, grief, low self esteem, anxiety, depression, stress and issues around intimacy and LGBT matters. She also supports people facing big life changes and those coping with panic or loneliness.

She follows a person-centred way of working. That means sessions focus on the concerns the client brings and on what the client wants to change. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour strategies and mindfulness where these are useful.

In practice she listens to what is happening now and what patterns may have formed over time. She discusses simple goals and practical steps the client can try between sessions. She pays particular attention to attachment and abandonment themes when these come up in relationships.

Her experience includes bereavement and relationship difficulties, and she has worked with people affected by autism and Asperger syndrome. She also offers support for problems such as codependency, commitment worries, jealousy and struggles with guilt or shame.

Sessions are aimed at helping people think through feelings and make small, workable changes. She encourages realistic, manageable actions and checks progress as therapy continues. To begin, people are asked to follow the directory's booking steps so they can arrange a first meeting and discuss next steps.

How Rebecca uses therapy approaches online