Rita Sandhu, BACP
Rita Sandhu is a BACP-registered counsellor with 13 years of therapeutic experience.
About Rita
Rita Sandhu is a BACP-registered counsellor with 13 years of therapeutic experience. She draws on a range of psychological approaches to help people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, loss, depression, and addictions. Rita is based in the United Kingdom and works with adults who want practical ways to feel steadier and more in control.
Rita combines trauma-focused work with acceptance and commitment principles to help people manage distressing memories and strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas and client-centred techniques to build trust and a clearer sense of self. Cognitive behavioural strategies are used to tackle unhelpful thoughts and habits that fuel anxiety or low mood. Her background includes long experience in health care, which informs a calm and attentive style in sessions.
Rita describes therapy as a collaborative process and focuses on small, achievable steps. She supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, grief, sleep and eating problems, and challenges linked to neurodiversity and long-term illness. Rita can also help with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, codependency, and compassion fatigue.
She understands the extra strain that caregiving and chronic conditions bring, and works to restore balance in everyday life. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients are welcome.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then book sessions according to the therapist's schedule.
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 169966 | November 2026 |
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Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rita lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Rita names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor lists and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Rita uses trauma-focused therapy to help people process and reduce the hold of distressing memories and painful experiences. This approach aims to lessen reactivity and help people reframe how past events affect daily life.She also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, which focuses on clarifying values and taking workable steps even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present. Attachment-based ideas are used to explore patterns in close relationships and to build more supported ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative task. Rita will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest a blend of methods that suit your situation. You will work together to test what helps and adjust the plan as you go.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat lets you have a focused check-in, and text messaging can suit shorter updates or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns does Rita help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, depression, addictions and related concerns such as parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach blends trauma-focused work with acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based and client-centred methods, and cognitive behavioural tools for practical change.
How much experience does she have?
Rita has 13 years of therapy experience and a background of over 26 years working in nursing and midwifery.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is located in the United Kingdom and is a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP (Accred).
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with Rita?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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