Rebecca Barley Hawkins, BACP

Rebecca Barley Hawkins is a professionally qualified counsellor based in the United Kingdom with seven years of experience supporting people of all ages. She works through face-to-face meetings, telephone appointments, and online sessions, offering an empathic, accepting space where individuals can explore the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours tied to life events.

Rebecca provides a non-judgmental environment that honours each person’s unique response to difficulty. Her approach is non-directive, giving clients the freedom to set the pace and direction of counselling while she offers warmth, understanding, and integrity. This collaborative stance aims to build trust and help people uncover greater autonomy as they process past and present challenges.

Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She also works with related issues such as abandonment, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, panic attacks, self-love, social anxiety, and young adult issues. Rebecca has experience supporting both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals.

Rebecca is BACP registered - BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor support to each person’s needs. Her aim is to offer a compassionate, steady presence while clients work toward clearer understanding and meaningful change.

Evidence-based approaches adapted for online therapy

Rebecca uses a non-directive counselling style that focuses on creating space for clients to explore what matters most to them. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and supporting a person’s own pace of discovery, which can be helpful for issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and processing past experiences.

She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the presenting issue. In practice this means applying structured strategies and interventions that are known to support people with stress, anxiety, panic, depression, trauma-related difficulties, and other common concerns, adapting the methods to fit each individual’s needs.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Rebecca works collaboratively with clients to identify what feels like the best fit. Together they consider the client’s goals, preferences, and responses to different ways of working to shape an ongoing plan.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, study, and family life, and allow people to access support from home or elsewhere. For many, remote sessions make consistent therapy more attainable while preserving the same professional relationship and therapeutic focus they would expect from registered professionals.