Rebecca Garside , NCPS

Rebecca Garside is a person-centred counsellor who helps people facing relationship and women’s issues, parenting concerns, and big life changes. She supports people through coming out, exploring sexual or gender identity, and the emotional effects of divorce, separation, grief and loss. Her approach is calm and listening-led, aimed at helping people find a path forward at their own pace.

She uses person-centred, or client-centred, methods that focus on the person’s own priorities. Sessions are largely guided by what matters most to the client, with space to talk and reflect. Rebecca works with issues around family of origin, adoption and foster care, and the particular strains that can follow from those experiences.

Rebecca has 13 years of counselling experience across a wide age range. She has supported people who struggle with everyday life, those facing devastating loss, and parents adjusting to later-life changes such as the empty nest and menopause. Her practice includes work with people who have lived in the care system and those managing blended family dynamics.

Additional concerns she addresses include body image, commitment and control issues, communication problems, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, eating and food-related issues, and feelings of emptiness. She also supports people dealing with abandonment and attachment wounds.

Sessions are offered in English and Rebecca accepts international clients. She describes herself as approachable and interested in finding out together whether her style fits a person’s needs.

How Rebecca’s Person‑Centred Approach Works Online

Client‑centred therapy focuses on the person’s own priorities and experiences. The counsellor offers attentive listening, reflection and gentle questions to help someone clarify their feelings and choices. This approach suits issues like identity exploration, relationship worries, parenting stresses and grief because it follows what the client brings to the session.

In practice the counsellor creates space for the person to be heard without steering them to a particular solution. Rebecca will work collaboratively to identify what feels most helpful, then adapt the way sessions run to match those goals and preferences. Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be agreed together as therapy progresses.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. Video sessions allow face‑to‑face contact when that is helpful, phone sessions can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check‑ins or times when writing feels easier. These options aim to make counselling more flexible and accessible for people with busy lives, diverse needs or who live far from in‑person services.