Rosa Stevens, BACP, NCPS

Rosa Stevens is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach alongside practical therapies to help people facing stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Italian and works from the United Kingdom. Rosa aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.

She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Mindfulness practices and Jungian perspectives are used when helpful to explore meaning, values, and emotional patterns. Motivational interviewing helps people find the will to make changes that suit their life.

Rosa has eight years of experience working with issues such as depression, low self-esteem, parenting strains, grief, and coping with life changes. She also provides support around intimacy-related concerns, relationship difficulties, anger, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include postpartum depression, obsessions and compulsions, fertility and eating-related issues, and caregiver stress.

Sessions are framed around the person's strengths and priorities. Conversations aim to identify practical steps and skills to use between meetings. Rosa keeps language plain and direct so people can make sense of their situation and try small changes.

Taking the first step can feel hard. Rosa helps people clarify what they want from therapy and works with them to find manageable ways forward. The emphasis is on steady progress and finding approaches that fit each person's needs.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Client-centred work focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood and can set the agenda for sessions. This approach helps with stress, low self-esteem and life changes by putting the individual's priorities at the centre of the conversation.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks down difficult problems into thoughts, feelings and actions. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises and simple behavioural experiments that people can try between meetings to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Mindfulness-based techniques teach present-moment awareness and simple grounding practices. These are easy to practise during a video call or via written guidance and can help with rumination, panic and day-to-day stress.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and past experiences and together decide which methods to try first. This collaborative planning can be reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.

Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people keep visual contact and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, reflective notes and ongoing support between longer sessions.