Anna Rita Iaboni

• Attachment based
• Client centred
• CBT techniques

About Anna

Anna Rita Iaboni works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self‑esteem, compassion fatigue and other life challenges using a mix of talk-based approaches. She is BACP registered and has five years' experience working with adults. Sessions are offered in English and Italian.

She combines client-centred listening with psychodynamic and attachment-based ideas to explore how past relationships shape current feelings. Anna Rita also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Her methods aim to be practical and straightforward while also acknowledging deeper emotional and existential themes.

Her background in performing arts and holistic therapies informs a style that pays attention to personal meaning and life values. This can help when people are coping with grief, major life changes, or questions about identity and purpose. She also works with issues such as addiction, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and intimacy-related concerns.

Anna Rita supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness and disability, body image, attachment difficulties, and blended family or parenting strain. She can also help with more specific areas such as BDSM, kink and alternative sex culture, and abandonment concerns. Practical coping strategies are offered alongside longer-term reflection.

Clients are invited to set the pace and focus of sessions. To begin, use the site matching process to connect and schedule a first appointment. The counsellor does not take international clients outside the United Kingdom.

How her approaches work for remote counselling

Anna Rita often draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centred counselling in online work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current connections and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy, abandonment and relationship patterns. Client-centred counselling focuses on listening and helping the client lead the conversation so they can clarify what matters most to them.

She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address specific symptoms like panic, low mood or sleep problems by identifying thoughts and behaviours that keep difficulties going. CBT approaches usually involve short practical exercises and checks on progress between sessions.

Finding the best mix of methods is part of the therapeutic process. The counsellor will work collaboratively to choose approaches that fit the client’s goals and preferences, adjusting them as therapy progresses.

For practical arrangements, please confirm the session formats available before booking because the biography does not list formats. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around everyday life, for example fitting sessions into a lunch break, arranging shorter check-ins, or avoiding travel time. These practical benefits can help people keep therapy consistent while balancing other commitments.

Topics Anna lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Self-esteem
• Coping with life changes
• Compassion fatigue
• Addictions
• LGBT
• Relationship issues
• Family conflicts
• Grief
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Depression
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Attachment issues
• BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dissociation
• Domestic violence
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Infidelity
• Isolation and loneliness
• Life purpose
• Midlife crisis
• Mood disorders
• Multicultural concerns
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Polyamory and non-monogamous relationships
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Process addictions
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Somatization
• Women's issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Existential Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy
• Internal Family Systems

Questions about Anna

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety is one of the main areas she addresses.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She uses client‑centred work alongside psychodynamic and attachment-based approaches, with cognitive behavioural techniques.

How long has she been practising?

She has five years' experience as a counsellor and life coach.

Is she accredited and where does she practise?

She is BACP registered and works in the United Kingdom.

Does she speak other languages?

Sessions are offered in English and Italian.

Can international clients book sessions?

She does not accept international clients outside the United Kingdom.

What session formats are available?

Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified here.

How much do sessions cost and how are payments handled?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.