Rita Sandhu, BACP
13 years in practice
Rita Sandhu offers a practical, emotionally focused approach to therapy.
License and registration
- BACP
- 169966 · expires November 2026
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Rita
Rita Sandhu offers a practical, emotionally focused approach to therapy. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other methods to help people understand feelings and improve how they cope. Rita writes clearly and simply in sessions so people can talk about what matters.
She has 13 years of experience and holds BACP registration. Rita brings a background in nursing and midwifery to her counselling work. That clinical experience informs how she listens and responds to distress.
Background and approach
Sessions are calm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone manage anxiety, low mood, stress, grief or trauma. Rita also supports people dealing with sleep problems, addiction, career worries and self-esteem struggles. Her approach borrows from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when useful.
She also uses Attachment-Based and client-centred ideas to focus on emotional experience and relationships. Techniques are chosen to fit each person rather than following a fixed template. People often come with complex, overlapping issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, neurodiversity, or concerns around body image and sexual identity.
Rita works through these problems step by step, helping people build practical skills and clearer thinking. Sessions can be arranged by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Rita accepts clients internationally and works in English.
To begin, a short questionnaire helps match a person before scheduling sessions.
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 counseling
- 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
Approaches Rita names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- 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 therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Rita uses Emotionally‑Focused Therapy to help people understand and reorganise strong emotional responses. This approach focuses on what feelings are saying and helps people change unhelpful patterns that cause distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another strand she draws on; it helps people accept difficult thoughts while committing to values‑based action and practical steps.Attachment‑based ideas also inform her work, looking at how early relationships shape current patterns and how that affects connection and coping. Rita aims to match approaches to each person, and she will work together with clients to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals and situation.
Online therapy with Rita is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller face‑to‑face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check‑ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy flexible and easier to fit around work, family or travel.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Rita supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. She also works on sleep, eating concerns, addictions, career issues and self‑esteem.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses an emotionally focused, client‑centred style that is direct and easy to follow. Sessions combine talking about feelings with practical strategies tailored to each person.
What experience does Rita bring?
She has 13 years of counselling experience and over two decades working as an NHS nurse and midwife. That background shapes her calm, attentive approach.
What professional credentials and location are listed?
Rita is a BACP Therapist and is listed as MBACP (Accred). She practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and Rita accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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