Regina Riley, BACP

Regina Riley is a counsellor who focuses on helping people facing big life questions and emotional strain. She works with people feeling depressed, anxious, or unsure how to cope. Regina stresses the importance of the relationship she builds with each person and aims to offer a non-judgemental space.

Regina describes herself as an integrative counsellor who draws on more than one way of working. She tailors sessions to what the person brings and to the problems they want to address. That can mean looking at past patterns, current thoughts, or how relationships shape feelings.

Her approach places a strong emphasis on creating a secure base in the room. She aims to listen carefully, to value each person’s experience, and to avoid minimising what has happened. Conversations are paced to the person’s needs rather than a fixed formula.

Regina has four years of practice and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, addictions, relationship strain, grief and midlife change.

Sessions also address related issues such as attachment struggles, body image worries, caregiver stress, long-term health problems and difficulties with communication. The focus is practical - helping people make sense of their situation and find ways to cope and move forward.

Regina offers therapy in English and in Ndebele dialects. She accepts international clients and aims to schedule work in a way that fits around everyday life.

Approaches that guide online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early and close relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps when patterns in relationships cause distress or make it hard to trust others. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the front and relies on warm, respectful listening to help people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical ways to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Regina will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose methods together that fit those aims. That means she adapts the mix of listening, insight work and practical tools to suit what a person wants from therapy.

Confirm the exact session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel, and allow shorter check-ins when time is tight. It also makes it simpler to maintain regular contact when living abroad or dealing with unpredictable schedules. Registered and accredited professionals can use these practical benefits to help therapy fit around daily life without changing what’s addressed in sessions.