Rita Da Silva
Supportive BACP counsellor with 17 years' experience
About Rita
Rita Da Silva offers practical, evidence-based support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience. Rita speaks English and Portuguese and works with people across the United Kingdom and beyond.
Rita aims to create a calm and respectful space where people can talk about what matters most to them. She focuses on listening closely, helping clients make sense of difficult feelings and finding small, manageable steps forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and pace. Over 17 years Rita has helped people tackle a wide range of concerns. These include issues linked to abandonment and attachment, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and the effects of divorce and separation.
She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, loneliness, life-purpose questions, sexuality and panic attacks. Her way of working is straightforward and collaborative. Rita helps clients identify patterns that keep problems going and tries practical strategies to change them.
She explains ideas clearly and checks in to make sure approaches are working. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different routines and needs. Rita accepts international clients and adapts her approach for English- and Portuguese-speaking people.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
What Rita works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rita uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to structure sessions and help clients make practical changes. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour and replacing them with alternatives that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. This kind of work is useful for anxiety, panic and low mood. Another approach emphasises exploring attachment and relationship patterns from past and present to understand why certain reactions occur. That work often helps with abandonment concerns, communication problems and issues with trust.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree a way of working that feels right. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or need more flexible, ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and busy lives.
| 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
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
