Rebecca "Becki" Watkins, BACP
Calm, practical therapy with somatic awareness
About Rebecca
Rebecca "Becki" Watkins is a BACP psychotherapist with 13 years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, down-to-earth space so people can talk about what’s worrying them. Becki aims to make conversations straightforward and free of jargon so clients can find practical ways forward.
Becki works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, relationship issues, grief, trauma and identity questions. She is neurodiversity-affirming and sees people who are autistic, whether they have a formal diagnosis or are still exploring their experience.
Background and approach
Becki also supports people with ADHD, addictions, bipolar and intimacy-related concerns. Her approach is flexible and tailored to each person. Sessions blend somatic awareness with client-centred listening and practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioural and emotion-focused methods.
This means sessions can include talking, noticing physical reactions, and learning simple coping skills to use between meetings. Becki pays attention to patterns such as attachment, avoidance, codependency and communication problems. She also helps people facing life transitions, parenting strain, body image worries, chronic pain or relationship separation.
The focus is on what feels helpful and manageable for the individual. If someone is nervous about starting, Becki offers a gentle first step and works at a pace the person chooses. The aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
How Becki’s approaches work online
Somatic work focuses on noticing the body's signals and using that awareness to calm stress, reduce tension and understand how feelings show up physically. It can help with anxiety, trauma reactions and chronic stress by pairing body awareness with talk-based reflection.Client-Centred Therapy means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s lead. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they make sense of difficult emotions and choices.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In practical terms it offers simple tools to test unhelpful thinking patterns and build small behavioural changes to improve mood and reduce anxiety.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Becki will discuss options and together the person and therapist decide what feels most helpful based on needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process may change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or messaging provide shorter, text-based contact when that suits better. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting, work or energy levels while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English