About Roberta
Roberta Gomes is a counsellor who focuses on helping people deal with fear, anxiety and stressful life changes. She is a PACFA practitioner with three years of experience and speaks English and Portuguese. Roberta keeps sessions straightforward and practical so people can try new ways of coping quickly.
Roberta often supports people facing phobias, anxiety and stress, and she also helps with sleep problems, grief and depression. She works with issues around addiction, anger and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
People come to her for help with trauma, relationship and family tensions, and the strain of caregiving. Her style is collaborative and client-centred. Sessions start by listening to what matters most and setting simple, achievable goals.
Roberta draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to offer tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and building values-based action. She also uses mindfulness and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach grounding and emotional regulation skills. Therapy can include short exercises to practise between sessions and small experiments to test new behaviours in daily life.
Roberta makes space for practical problem solving and for working through painful memories at a comfortable pace. She aims to help people reduce symptoms and build routines that support better sleep, clearer thinking and steadier moods. The focus is on useful strategies people can use right away.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and still take steps that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, phobias and coping with life changes by teaching committed action and acceptance skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going; it is helpful for anxiety, depression and sleep issues. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers specific tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication, which can assist with anger, self-regulation and relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Roberta will discuss your goals and preferences and help choose or blend methods that fit your situation. That decision is made together and can change as therapy progresses to match what is most useful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in, and messaging works for shorter reflections or when you prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and they allow consistent contact between sessions when useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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