Rebeca Paiva , BACP

Rebeca Paiva is a UK-based, BACP-accredited therapist with more than eight years of experience supporting adults through anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties. She works with people facing attachment patterns, low self-esteem, overthinking, burnout, and major life transitions, and she also addresses issues such as people-pleasing, boundary setting, emotional regulation, panic, and grief. Her work pays close attention to how childhood experiences and past wounds continue to affect present wellbeing.

Her therapeutic foundation is in humanistic person-centred counselling, and she draws on a range of evidence-informed methods to tailor therapy to each person’s needs. Rebeca integrates cognitive behavioural techniques, solution-focused strategies, interpersonal approaches, transactional analysis, and compassion-focused methods within a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework so clients gain both emotional insight and practical coping skills.

Rebeca holds a Master’s in Health Psychology, a postgraduate degree that emphasizes the link between psychological factors and health, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, an undergraduate qualification in psychological theory and research. Her practice centres on helping people build self-worth, strengthen identity, recognise and manage triggers, challenge the inner critic, and develop communication and stress-management tools that support motivation, resilience, and sustainable personal growth.

She also supports people living with chronic health conditions by exploring the emotional impact of diagnosis, fear, and change, helping them manage what cannot be changed and work on what can be healed. In sessions she explores feelings, behaviours, and internal patterns with curiosity and compassion, identifying core issues, unhelpful beliefs, resilience factors, and the strengths clients already possess, with the aim of helping them feel more grounded and confident in navigating life and relationships. Rebeca offers therapy in English and Portuguese.

Blending attachment work and acceptance in online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and to take committed steps toward values-based living. It can be useful for anxiety, burnout, and navigating life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relational patterns shape current relationship dynamics and emotional responses, helping clients understand and change repetitive attachment habits that affect intimacy and trust. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a respectful, non-directive relationship where the therapist listens with empathy and supports the client’s own capacity for growth and self-understanding, which can be especially helpful for building self-worth and emotional regulation.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Rebeca works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods best suit their goals, preferences, and life context, adapting the pace and techniques as trust and insight develop.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can happen through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit support around work, family, and geographical constraints. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent, focused care while accommodating different communication styles and schedules, helping people access therapy in ways that feel most manageable for them.