Rebecca (Becky) Thomas
Person-centred counsellor offering calm listening
About Rebecca
Rebecca (Becky) Thomas is a counsellor with eight years' experience working in therapeutic settings. She trained in person-centred practice and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP. Becky offers an approachable style and a calm listening presence for people who need to talk things through.
Becky works in plain language and aims to make sessions feel straightforward. She encourages people to set the pace and to bring whatever feels most important that day.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on helping people understand their feelings and build practical ways to cope with stress, anxiety, grief, low mood, trauma and other difficulties. Her background includes work in an NHS GP practice, supporting women in a closed-category prison, and practice at a mental health charity in a very deprived area.
Becky also holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from a British Psychological Society accredited degree and has clinical experience across a wide range of mental health challenges. In therapy she prioritises warmth, non-judgement and respect for the person’s choices. She helps people notice their strengths and develop skills to manage emotions, behaviour and relationships.
This can include straightforward strategies for sleeping, eating, coping with change, dealing with addiction or improving self-esteem. Becky offers sessions in English and accepts clients from outside the United Kingdom. Her practice uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred therapy works online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping people feel understood. In practice this means the counsellor offers non-judgemental attention and reflects back what is said so a person can better understand their feelings. This approach often helps with anxiety, grief, low mood, self-esteem and processing distressing experiences.Because Becky uses a person-centred style, sessions are led by the client's concerns and pace. The therapist and client work together to identify priorities and try different ways of addressing them. Finding the right approach is part of the work and Becky will help decide what fits best with the person's goals and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and build rapport, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or camera use is difficult, and text or live chat can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments, and to keep continuity when meeting in person is difficult.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
