-AREAS I WORK WITH-

People come to counselling for all kinds of reasons. Some arrive with a clear sense of what they're carrying. Others just know that something isn't right, and they can't quite name it yet.

Both are welcome here. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a neat explanation. You just need to show up.

-AREAS I WORK WITH-

People come to counselling for all kinds of reasons. Some arrive with a clear sense of what they're carrying. Others just know that something isn't right, and they can't quite name it yet.

Both are welcome here. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a neat explanation. You just need to show up.

Below are some of the areas I work with most often.

You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a neat explanation. You just need to show up. If you're not sure whether counselling can help with what you're experiencing, the best thing to do is get in touch.

Anxiety:

Anxiety can feel like living with a constant hum of threat in the background - a tightness in the chest, a restlessness that won't settle, a mind that keeps running worst-case scenarios even when everything is technically fine.


It can also be more acute: panic attacks, avoidance, the way certain situations or thoughts seem to trigger a full-body alarm.


Counselling can't switch anxiety off. But it can help you understand where it comes from, recognise the patterns that feed it, and develop a different relationship with it - one where it no longer runs the show.

Grief & loss:

Grief is not just about death - though it includes that. It can also be the loss of a relationship, a job, a version of your life you expected to have, a sense of who you were before something changed. Let’s help you refind yourself without them, understanding how the relationship has now changed. Grief can be love without somewhere to go, the emotion is still there but there’s not the usual root to be able to send it.


Grief doesn't follow a timetable. It doesn't resolve when others think it should. And it often arrives in waves, long after the world has moved on.


In counseling, grief is given the space it needs. There is no rushing it. Just a place to bring it, consistently, without apology.

Below are some of the areas I work with most often.

You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a neat explanation. You just need to show up. If you're not sure whether counselling can help with what you're experiencing, the best thing to do is get in touch.

Anxiety:

Anxiety can feel like living with a constant hum of threat in the background - a tightness in the chest, a restlessness that won't settle, a mind that keeps running worst-case scenarios even when everything is technically fine.


It can also be more acute: panic attacks, avoidance, the way certain situations or thoughts seem to trigger a full-body alarm.


Counselling can't switch anxiety off. But it can help you understand where it comes from, recognise the patterns that feed it, and develop a different relationship with it - one where it no longer runs the show.

Grief & loss:

Grief is not just about death - though it includes that. It can also be the loss of a relationship, a job, a version of your life you expected to have, a sense of who you were before something changed. Let’s help you refind yourself without them, understanding how the relationship has now changed. Grief can be love without somewhere to go, the emotion is still there but there’s not the usual root to be able to send it.


Grief doesn't follow a timetable. It doesn't resolve when others think it should. And it often arrives in waves, long after the world has moved on.


In counseling, grief is given the space it needs. There is no rushing it. Just a place to bring it, consistently, without apology.

Low mood & depression:

Low mood can make the smallest things feel enormous. Getting up. Responding to a message. Feeling anything other than a grey, flat heaviness that's hard to explain to people who haven't felt it.


Counselling cannot replace medical treatment where that's needed - and if you're experiencing symptoms of depression, speaking to your GP is always encouraged. But talking therapy can work alongside other support, and for many people, being genuinely heard is itself a turning point.

Relationship difficulties:

Relationships - with partners, family, friends, colleagues - are where so much of our pain originates, and also where so much of our healing happens.


Counselling can help you understand the patterns you bring to relationships, explore what you need that you're not getting, and find clearer ways to communicate what matters to you.

Low mood & depression:

Low mood can make the smallest things feel enormous. Getting up. Responding to a message. Feeling anything other than a grey, flat heaviness that's hard to explain to people who haven't felt it.


Counselling cannot replace medical treatment where that's needed - and if you're experiencing symptoms of depression, speaking to your GP is always encouraged. But talking therapy can work alongside other support, and for many people, being genuinely heard is itself a turning point.

Relationship difficulties:

Relationships - with partners, family, friends, colleagues - are where so much of our pain originates, and also where so much of our healing happens.


Counselling can help you understand the patterns you bring to relationships, explore what you need that you're not getting, and find clearer ways to communicate what matters to you.

Life transitions:

Change - even change we've chosen - can be destabilising. Moving, ending or beginning relationships, career shifts, becoming a parent, losing a parent, retirement. The transitions that mark our lives can leave us feeling unmoored even when they're supposedly good ones. There is a grief for the old life and old dreams that are valid and need to be acknowledged. 


Counselling offers a steady space to process what's shifting, and find your footing in what's next.

Trauma & difficult experiences:

Trauma is not always a single dramatic event. It can be the accumulation of smaller experiences over time - things that happened, things that were said, things that should have happened and didn't.

Working with trauma requires particular care and pacing. I work at a pace that is safe for you - never pushing faster than you're ready to go, and always with your wellbeing as the priority.

Let us get you feeling safe within you first, not understanding of what and why needs to happen before you are ready to talk about it. It may seem monotonous but retraining your nervous system to favour safety rather than flight, fight or freeze is paramount.

Self-esteem & confidence:

How we feel about ourselves quietly shapes everything - the opportunities we go for, the relationships we accept, the voice we use in our own heads.


Person-centred counselling is particularly well suited to this kind of work, because the therapeutic relationship itself - being accepted unconditionally by another person - can begin to shift how you relate to yourself.


Don't see your experience listed here? Get in touch - if counselling isn't the right fit, Rebecca will tell you honestly and do her best to point you somewhere that is.

Life

transitions:

Change - even change we've chosen - can be destabilising. Moving, ending or beginning relationships, career shifts, becoming a parent, losing a parent, retirement. The transitions that mark our lives can leave us feeling unmoored even when they're supposedly good ones. There is a grief for the old life and old dreams that are valid and need to be acknowledged. 


Counselling offers a steady space to process what's shifting, and find your footing in what's next.

Trauma & difficult experiences:

Trauma is not always a single dramatic event. It can be the accumulation of smaller experiences over time - things that happened, things that were said, things that should have happened and didn't.

Working with trauma requires particular care and pacing. I work at a pace that is safe for you - never pushing faster than you're ready to go, and always with your wellbeing as the priority.

Let us get you feeling safe within you first, not understanding of what and why needs to happen before you are ready to talk about it. It may seem monotonous but retraining your nervous system to favour safety rather than flight, fight or freeze is paramount.

Self-esteem & confidence:

How we feel about ourselves quietly shapes everything - the opportunities we go for, the relationships we accept, the voice we use in our own heads.


Person-centred counselling is particularly well suited to this kind of work, because the therapeutic relationship itself - being accepted unconditionally by another person - can begin to shift how you relate to yourself.


Don't see your experience listed here? Get in touch - if counselling isn't the right fit, Rebecca will tell you honestly and do her best to point you somewhere that is.

Below are some of the areas I work with most often.

You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a neat explanation. You just need to show up. If you're not sure whether counselling can help with what you're experiencing, the best thing to do is get in touch.

Anxiety:

Anxiety can feel like living with a constant hum of threat in the background - a tightness in the chest, a restlessness that won't settle, a mind that keeps running worst-case scenarios even when everything is technically fine.


It can also be more acute: panic attacks, avoidance, the way certain situations or thoughts seem to trigger a full-body alarm.


Counselling can't switch anxiety off. But it can help you understand where it comes from, recognise the patterns that feed it, and develop a different relationship with it - one where it no longer runs the show.

Grief & loss:

Grief is not just about death - though it includes that. It can also be the loss of a relationship, a job, a version of your life you expected to have, a sense of who you were before something changed. Let’s help you refind yourself without them, understanding how the relationship has now changed. Grief can be love without somewhere to go, the emotion is still there but there’s not the usual root to be able to send it.


Grief doesn't follow a timetable. It doesn't resolve when others think it should. And it often arrives in waves, long after the world has moved on.


In counseling, grief is given the space it needs. There is no rushing it. Just a place to bring it, consistently, without apology.

Low mood & depression:

Low mood can make the smallest things feel enormous. Getting up. Responding to a message. Feeling anything other than a grey, flat heaviness that's hard to explain to people who haven't felt it.


Counselling cannot replace medical treatment where that's needed - and if you're experiencing symptoms of depression, speaking to your GP is always encouraged. But talking therapy can work alongside other support, and for many people, being genuinely heard is itself a turning point.

Relationship difficulties:

Relationships - with partners, family, friends, colleagues - are where so much of our pain originates, and also where so much of our healing happens.


Counselling can help you understand the patterns you bring to relationships, explore what you need that you're not getting, and find clearer ways to communicate what matters to you.

Life transitions:

Change - even change we've chosen - can be destabilising. Moving, ending or beginning relationships, career shifts, becoming a parent, losing a parent, retirement. The transitions that mark our lives can leave us feeling unmoored even when they're supposedly good ones. There is a grief for the old life and old dreams that are valid and need to be acknowledged. 


Counselling offers a steady space to process what's shifting, and find your footing in what's next.

Trauma & difficult experiences:

Trauma is not always a single dramatic event. It can be the accumulation of smaller experiences over time - things that happened, things that were said, things that should have happened and didn't.

Working with trauma requires particular care and pacing. I work at a pace that is safe for you - never pushing faster than you're ready to go, and always with your wellbeing as the priority.

Let us get you feeling safe within you first, not understanding of what and why needs to happen before you are ready to talk about it. It may seem monotonous but retraining your nervous system to favour safety rather than flight, fight or freeze is paramount.

Self-esteem & confidence:

How we feel about ourselves quietly shapes everything - the opportunities we go for, the relationships we accept, the voice we use in our own heads.


Person-centred counselling is particularly well suited to this kind of work, because the therapeutic relationship itself - being accepted unconditionally by another person - can begin to shift how you relate to yourself.


Don't see your experience listed here? Get in touch - if counselling isn't the right fit, Rebecca will tell you honestly and do her best to point you somewhere that is.

© 2026 Rebecca White Therapies. All rights reserved.

© 2026 Rebecca White Therapies. All rights reserved.