Rebecca Slaymaker , NCPS

Rebecca Slaymaker offers a calm, person-focused style of counselling grounded in client-centred principles. She listens carefully and works with each person to shape sessions around their priorities. Rebecca holds NCPS credentialing and has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.

Her work supports people dealing with stress and anxiety, low mood and depression, grief and loss, and problems with self-esteem and motivation. She also helps those facing relationship tensions, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Rebecca uses practical strategies as well as talking therapies to help people cope day to day.

Sessions are adjusted to suit individual needs. Rebecca draws on cognitive behavioural approaches to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and find concrete ways to change them. She combines this with mindfulness practices to build awareness and reduce reactivity.

She also brings psychodynamic ideas into the work to look at recurring patterns from the past that affect current choices. Hypnotherapy may be offered when appropriate to support focused change and behavioural shifts.

Rebecca works with a wide range of concerns that include attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, fertility worries, isolation, and purpose in life. She treats each person with respect and sensitivity, and helps them identify small, achievable steps towards feeling better.

Rebecca aims to make starting therapy straightforward and practical. She tailors the pace and tools used so the work fits each person’s life and goals.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life

Rebecca commonly combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and letting the person lead the pace of change; it helps when someone needs a safe space to talk and be heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers practical steps to change patterns that cause distress.

She may also use mindfulness techniques to help people notice their thoughts and feelings with less reactivity. Mindfulness is useful for managing anxiety, stress and building tolerance for difficult moments. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences, adjusting the mix as therapy progresses.

Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Rebecca offers video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for a simpler check-in that needs less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging for short updates, written reflections or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while still working with a registered or accredited professional.