Rebeca Paiva
Compassionate, practical therapy for lasting change
About Rebeca
Rebeca Paiva is a counsellor with eight years of experience helping adults who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression and relationship difficulties. She speaks English and Portuguese and works with people facing trauma, low self-esteem, burnout, grief and the lasting effects of early wounds. Her practice also covers issues such as addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, and career stress.
Rebeca's training includes a Master’s in Health Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
She blends a person-centred stance with practical methods so sessions combine emotional understanding with steps to feel better day to day. Expect a focus on identifying unhelpful beliefs, building self-worth and improving communication skills. Her approach is trauma-aware and tailored to each person's needs.
Rebeca helps clients recognise patterns that come from earlier life experiences and learn tools for emotional regulation and stress management. She uses strategies that can ease panic, reduce overthinking and support recovery from burnout. Rebeca also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, codependency, commitment worries, and intimacy-related concerns including alternative sex culture and kink.
She works with those coping with separation, domestic violence impacts, and substance use as part of broader life change work. Therapy aims are shaped collaboratively and include building resilience, increasing confidence, and creating practical plans for coping. People who want both a compassionate listener and clear steps to try in everyday life will find this approach practical and grounded.
What Rebeca works with
How Rebeca works
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Sessions & fees
How Rebeca's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships influence current patterns and helps people change unhelpful relational responses, which can be useful for intimacy and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and learning practical ways to reduce symptoms like panic and unhelpful rumination.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and needs and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as the therapy progresses, so techniques are adapted to what helps most.
Online sessions give flexibility for people with busy lives or limited time. Video calls let you read non-verbal cues and work in real time, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing daily commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
