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Patricia Robbins, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 18 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsSelf esteemDepressionADHD
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Patricia Robbins is a psychotherapist with 18 years of experience who focuses on helping people feel more able and in control. She works in a warm, collaborative way and aims to treat each person with respect and sensitivity. Patricia is a member of the BACP and NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Her sessions are tailored to the individual. She combines practical strategies from cognitive approaches with humanistic listening and attachment-informed thinking.
Background and approach
Conversations are goal-oriented when useful, and also make space for feelings, history and relationships. Patricia often supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress and addictions. She also helps with self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, bipolar difficulties, and the strain that comes with caregiving or chronic illness.
Trauma, grief and intimacy-related issues are within her focus too. She has additional experience with neurodiversity and personality-related difficulties, including autism, ADHD, attachment and avoidant or antisocial personality features. Other areas she addresses include communication and commitment issues, body image, blended family challenges and coping with major life changes.
Sessions aim to build autonomy and practical skills. Patricia encourages small, achievable steps and collaborative planning. She avoids stigmatising labels and works to create a non-judgemental space where people can talk honestly about what matters to them.
How Patricia’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters to them. It uses simple exercises and values-based goals to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action, which can suit worries, low mood and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and testing small changes. It is practical and skill-based, often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patricia will talk with each person about goals and preferences and pick methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video can allow face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, travel or caregiving and allow continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
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