Rebecca Armstrong
Helping people find clearer ways forward
About Rebecca
Rebecca Armstrong is a psychotherapeutic counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and stress. She supports those dealing with parenting challenges, relationship and family problems, and intimacy or anger issues. Rebecca also works with concerns such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which means she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
Rebecca aims for conversations that feel straightforward and useful. Sessions focus on what is happening now and practical steps to make everyday life easier. She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps people try different ways of responding.
The work is collaborative and paced around each person’s needs. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity and long-term health conditions. That includes issues linked to autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic pain, illness and disability, and the social stresses those can bring.
Rebecca helps people name strengths and reduce self-doubt or imposter feelings that often follow these experiences. Rebecca also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, domestic violence, dissociation, abandonment and attachment difficulties. Other areas she addresses include infertility, separation and divorce, infidelity, and control or commitment worries.
Her approach includes coaching elements when clients want practical goal-focused work. With five years of experience, Rebecca combines attentive listening with clear next steps. She offers sessions online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Rebecca works with English-speaking clients in the UK and internationally.
What Rebecca works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Rebecca uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common strand is practical problem-focused work where conversations identify unhelpful patterns and set small, achievable goals to change them. This helps with stress, low mood, motivation and everyday functioning.Another element is trauma-informed listening that helps people make sense of past hurt and how it affects current life. This approach supports those dealing with abuse, domestic violence, dissociation, grief and attachment wounds by creating steady, manageable steps toward feeling safer in day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is a shared task. Rebecca will discuss options during early meetings and adjust methods based on a person’s goals, needs and preferences. She works together with clients to try approaches and change course when something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues when that matters, phone sessions can fit a short break at work and need less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care across locations and schedules while focusing on what helps most.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
