Rita Sandhu
Compassionate integrative therapist focusing on practical change
About Rita
Rita Sandhu works from an integrative, person-centred approach. She blends practical talking therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. Rita writes plainly and focuses on small, achievable steps people can use between sessions.
Rita brings 13 years of experience as a therapist together with a long career in nursing and midwifery. That clinical background shapes a calm, attentive style and an emphasis on clear, practical support when things feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP (Accred). Sessions are tailored to what each person needs. Common issues she helps with include grief, anger, addiction, sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, adjustment to life changes and stress related to work or caring roles.
There is also experience supporting people who identify as LGBT and those facing neurodiversity and attachment matters. Rita draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit different problems, including acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioural tools and client-centred methods. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and to build more helpful ways of relating.
People can expect a straightforward, compassionate atmosphere in sessions. Rita aims to make therapy practical and accessible, with steps to try between meetings and a focus on what matters most to the person seeking help.
What Rita works with
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Sessions & fees
Using evidence-based approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress and adjusting to life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioural experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, insomnia and low mood.
Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns influence current ways of relating and feeling. This approach can help people understand why they repeat certain relationship habits and learn different ways of connecting.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rita will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and may adapt techniques as therapy progresses to keep things useful and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging offers flexibility for different situations. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth, live chat can be a brief check-in and messaging suits shorter, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel, while keeping focus on practical steps and real-life application.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
