Rebeca Paiva, BACP

Rebeca Paiva is a UK-based therapist with more than eight years of experience helping adults navigate anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties. She works with people struggling with attachment patterns, low self-esteem, overthinking, burnout, panic, grief, and the ongoing effects of childhood experiences on present-day wellbeing. Her practice also supports those coping with people-pleasing, boundary challenges, emotional regulation, and life transitions.

Her therapeutic foundation is humanistic person-centered counselling, and she integrates a range of evidence-informed methods including cognitive behavioral techniques, solution-focused strategies, interpersonal approaches, transactional analysis, and compassion-focused work. This trauma-aware, integrative, and strengths-based orientation is designed to offer both emotional insight and practical coping skills tailored to each person’s needs.

Rebeca holds a Master’s degree in Health Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and she is accredited by the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She focuses on helping people build self-worth, strengthen identity, recognise triggers, and challenge the inner critic while learning communication skills, stress management tools, and resilient approaches to sustainable personal growth.

She also supports those living with chronic health conditions by exploring the emotional impact of diagnosis, change, and fear, helping clients manage what cannot be changed and work toward healing what can. Sessions are offered in English and Portuguese to accommodate bilingual needs.