Rebecca Garside
Person-centred counsellor for family and life changes
About Rebecca
Rebecca Garside supports people facing relationship strain, parenting concerns, LGBT identity questions, family difficulties and major life changes. She helps with issues such as adoption and foster care, abandonment, blended family challenges, and coping after separation or divorce. Rebecca also offers support around body image, addiction, eating problems and family of origin issues.
Rebecca is a person-centred counsellor who works in a warm, respectful way. She focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own answers.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to suit each person and conversations are practical and down-to-earth. With 13 years of experience, Rebecca has worked with a wide range of life situations. Her background includes supporting people with care system histories, adoption and foster care concerns, and questions about sexual and gender identity.
She has also helped parents adjust when children leave home and supported people through grief and loss. Rebecca approaches each meeting without judgement and aims to build trust quickly. She guides conversations so people can try out new ways of coping and decision-making.
Practical strategies and clearer thinking are common outcomes of her work together with clients. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. People who choose to work with Rebecca start by deciding if the fit feels right, then arrange the type of session that suits them best.
What Rebecca works with
How Rebecca works
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Sessions & fees
Person-centred support and flexible online therapy
Rebecca practises client-centred therapy which means she listens closely and follows the person's lead. This approach focuses on empathy, acceptance and helping people identify their own solutions, and it can be useful for relationship strain, identity questions and family issues.Rebecca draws on her years of experience to offer calm, steady support for coping with loss, life transitions and parenting challenges. She works collaboratively with each person to find the right way of working together and will adjust methods based on the client's needs, goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls are good when face-to-face conversation matters, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat sessions suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while accessing the same therapeutic approach a registered or accredited professional would use.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
