Rebecca Fahey , BACP

Rebecca Fahey is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship difficulties. She keeps sessions warm and down-to-earth and aims to help people feel heard and understood before making small practical changes.

Rebecca draws on five years of practice across different settings. She has worked one-to-one and in groups, and has experience in a residential service for substance and alcohol misuse. She has also worked in a secure psychiatric hospital supporting people with long-term mental health problems including bipolar disorder and psychosis.

Her training includes a Foundation Degree of Science in Integrative Counselling and a Professional Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - which means she follows the BACP Ethical Framework for Practice. She also holds certificates for working with people affected by addiction.

In sessions Rebecca helps people look at how their history, relationships and everyday pressures shape their reactions now. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural ideas alongside reflective work to uncover patterns and try different ways of responding. Work can include short-term goal-focused plans or longer conversations about past experiences.

People often come to her for help with grief, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, sleeping and eating problems, anger and low self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, career stress, ADHD-related difficulties and major life changes.

Practical therapy approaches for online care

Rebecca uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural tools to help people understand feelings and try different responses. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the person’s own goals, which helps people feel heard and start to make sense of painful experiences. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives simple skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change unhelpful patterns.

Rebecca also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy ideas when needed to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies for intense emotions. Choosing an approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will talk through options, try methods together and adjust based on what helps most for the person’s goals and circumstances.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video helps keep a face-to-face feel, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can suit short check-ins and messaging lets people work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and day-to-day life while still using the approaches described above.