Counsellor profile
Rita Hercska, HCPC
United Kingdom
Counselling psychologist - stress and relationships
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- CredentialsHCPC
- RegistrationHCPC, United Kingdom / PYL040649
- Experience6 years
- LanguagesEnglish, Hungarian
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Mindfulness techniques
About Rita
Rita Hercska is a UK-registered counselling psychologist (HCPC) with six years of practice. She works in English and Hungarian and helps people who feel stuck, stressed or overwhelmed by life and relationships.
Rita focuses on practical conversations. She listens, asks questions and helps people spot small changes that make daily life easier. She names goals together with clients and looks for strengths to support those goals. She also explains the limits of her service, including that she does not provide legal or court documentation, formal diagnoses, or assessment reports.
Her background draws on several ways of working. She uses ideas from family systems theory to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. She also brings in psychodynamic thinking to consider past patterns that repeat in present life. These approaches help when family problems, attachment wounds or abandonment issues are part of the difficulty.
Rita uses coaching-style conversations alongside mindfulness practices to help with stress, anxiety, sleep and concentration. She also applies cognitive techniques to address day-to-day thoughts that fuel low mood or anger. This mix aims to be interactive and practical rather than strictly academic.
People contact her about a wide range of concerns - grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and blended family issues, intimacy-related concerns, eating or sleeping problems, career or life-purpose questions, and compassion fatigue. She also notes working with neurodiversity issues such as autism and Asperger syndrome.
In sessions she keeps the tone personal and straightforward. The client is treated as the expert on their own life and the work proceeds collaboratively to find useful, manageable steps forward.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's concerns. The therapist encourages people to talk through problems and helps them find their own answers, which can suit issues like low self-esteem, relationship stress and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety, depression or anger.
Mindfulness Therapy introduces short attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management. These techniques pair well with the conversational work and practical tasks used in sessions.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and will adapt methods across sessions so the person feels involved in shaping the plan.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time so people can work on concrete goals between sessions.
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Experience
6+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Hungarian
Questions
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What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family problems, anger, grief, trauma, sleep and eating issues, career concerns and life changes.
What is her style of therapy like?
Her style is interactive and practical, combining client-centred conversation with coaching, mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to identify patterns and small changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has six years of clinical experience working in the United Kingdom with a range of common mental health and relationship difficulties.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Hungarian.
What session formats does she use?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm the current options before booking.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.