Stefania Rossi, BACP

Stefania Rossi is a Bedfordshire-based counsellor who works with adults and young people aged 18 and over, offering sessions nationally via video platforms. She is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), which reflects her commitment to recognised professional standards, regular supervision and ongoing professional development. She also holds a Level 5 Certificate in Relational Counselling with Relate, demonstrating specialist training in relationship-focused work, and maintains an up-to-date DBS Enhanced Certificate and professional insurance.

Her practice offers 45 minute one-to-one, open-ended sessions that are tailored to each person’s needs. Stefania describes her approach as integrative with a humanistic ethos, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic and existential ideas so she can adapt techniques to suit individual concerns and ways of working. She places importance on building a trustworthy therapeutic relationship and discusses personal nature of sessions and practical arrangements during an initial telephone consultation, where there is space to ask questions and agree the best way forward.

Stefania has experience supporting people with a wide range of difficulties including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, communication and control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and life-purpose concerns. She works collaboratively to understand presenting problems and to explore practical and emotional ways to move forward.

Therapeutic Approaches and Flexible Online Sessions

Stefania offers work informed by attachment-based therapy, client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Attachment-based therapy explores patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections, which can help with issues like abandonment, intimacy and relationship difficulties. Client-centred therapy emphasises empathy, active listening and the client’s own resources, supporting improvements in self-esteem and the ability to make personal changes. CBT focuses on the links between thoughts, emotions and behaviours and offers practical strategies to manage stress, anxiety and unhelpful patterns of thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Stefania works collaboratively to identify what fits best for each person. She will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs so that the treatment plan evolves in partnership and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving flexibility to choose the format that suits practical schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access regular support from registered professionals without travel, and allow therapy to be integrated into everyday life while maintaining continuity of care.