Rebecca Garside , NCPS

Rebecca Garside is a person-centred counsellor who supports people navigating difficult life moments and transitions. She draws on a compassionate, client-focused style to help clients make sense of grief, loss and other forms of heartbreak, and to find practical ways forward when everyday life feels hard.

Rebecca has worked with a wide range of age groups, from teenagers through to older adults, and has particular experience with people who have spent time in the care system. She is familiar with issues around birth family and foster care identity, and with the complex emotions that can arise from adoption and care-experience backgrounds.

As an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, Rebecca helps clients explore questions of sexual and gender identity, including coming out and identity development. She also supports parents facing stages such as empty nest and later-life emotional changes, and she has experience addressing family dynamics, blended family concerns and a range of relationship issues.

Rebecca holds NCPS, a recognised counselling credential indicating professional training in person-centred practice. She encourages prospective clients to explore whether her approach is the right fit and offers an open, supportive starting point for that discussion.

Client-Centered Support and Online Access

Client-Centered Therapy honours the client as the expert in their own life and focuses on creating a non-judgemental, empathic environment where people can explore feelings and choices. This approach is suited to work on relationship concerns, identity questions, coping with life changes and grief by helping clients clarify values and build self-directed solutions.

Rebecca uses a collaborative stance to help identify which therapeutic approach will best meet each person’s needs. She works together with clients to set goals, try approaches that feel right, and adjust the plan as understanding deepens and priorities change.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules, mobility constraints or who live in different locations. These options make it possible to maintain continuity of support, fit sessions around daily life, and access therapy from wherever a client is comfortable, while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained in remote delivery methods.