Rita Sandhu, BACP

Rita Sandhu is a counsellor with 13 years of experience. She draws on a range of therapeutic approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and other life changes. She speaks English and works from the United Kingdom.

Rita combines practical talking therapy with skills adapted from different methods. Sessions focus on clear goals, simple strategies and steady pacing. She aims to make sessions easy to follow for people dealing with grief, mood changes, addictive behaviours or relationship and parenting pressures.

Her background includes long experience in nursing and midwifery, which shapes how she responds to distress. That experience informs her attention to physical illness, chronic pain and caregiving strain alongside emotional concerns. She also supports people facing identity issues, body image struggles and neurodiversity-related challenges.

Therapeutic approaches she uses include acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural methods and dialectical behaviour strategies. In practical terms this means building skills for coping, noticing unhelpful patterns and trying small changes between sessions.

Rita welcomes conversation about specific needs such as ADHD, adoption and foster care history, bereavement, compassion fatigue or workplace stress. For people unsure where to start, she offers a calm space to talk things through and agree what to work on next.

Therapeutic approaches that work well online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behaviour and testing small changes to reduce symptoms like worry or insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current bonds and can help with trust, relationship strain and attachment difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rita collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try based on their needs, goals and preferences. She will discuss options together and adapt sessions as things change over time.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Many people find it simpler to bring notes, share short exercises and practise skills between meetings when sessions are held remotely. Registered or accredited professionals can use these ways of working to help people build new routines and coping strategies without promising a particular result.