About Robert
Robert Paynter NCPS offers a practical, body-aware approach to therapy. He uses somatic insights alongside cognitive and attachment-focused methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship difficulties. He speaks English, Afrikaans and Portuguese and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Robert has ten years of clinical experience and has run thousands of sessions since qualifying. He combines Client-Centred listening with Cognitive Behavioural techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what someone finds most useful in day-to-day life. In practice he focuses on simple, actionable steps. Conversations look at thoughts, behaviours and how the body responds to stress.
He also addresses deeper patterns linked to attachment and self-esteem. Work can include managing anger, coping with loss and navigating major life changes. Robert supports people dealing with addictions, chronic pain, eating concerns, caregiver strain and the pressures of career or life shifts.
He also helps those exploring sexual identity, kink and alternative sexual cultures, and the relationship challenges that can come with those topics. His sessions aim to be empathic and non-judgemental. He listens, reflects, and offers tools that clients can try between meetings.
The overall goal is clearer coping, steadier mood, and more confidence in handling everyday challenges.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, using breath, posture and gentle awareness to reduce physical tension and improve coping. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, chronic pain and for people who find talk alone does not release bodily-held stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions towards those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change long-standing ways of relating that cause distress.
Deciding on an approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your situation, try different tools and adjust methods to match your goals and comfort. That collaboration makes it easier to find what helps in everyday life.
Online therapy through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. It makes it possible to keep therapy alongside work, family and travel, and to try somatic and cognitive tools between sessions. Many people find the range of formats helps maintain momentum and integrate what they learn into daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans, Portuguese