Rosa Tomassi-Bella

Rosa Tomassi-Bella is a BACP-registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and questions about identity or belonging. Rosa also supports people facing life changes and issues around intimacy and self-esteem, including topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and caregiving stress.

Rosa trained in psychology and holds a BSc in Psychology with Neuropsychology and an MSc in Clinical and Health Psychology. She does not practise as a psychologist, but her academic background informs the way she frames conversations about how mind and body interact. That knowledge feeds into the person-centred counselling she offers.

Her work is grounded in relational approaches that focus on the therapeutic relationship. Sessions are paced gently and shaped around the client’s values and lived experience. Practical elements such as worksheets and journaling prompts are offered when helpful, and these can be adapted or left out according to the client’s preference.

Rosa brings together techniques from attachment-based, Jungian, mindfulness, and psychodynamic perspectives when relevant. This can include looking at patterns formed in relationships, attending to emotional experience in the moment, and using reflective tools to deepen understanding. She aims to help people notice patterns that feel stuck and make small, workable changes.

Sessions are offered to people across cultures and borders in English, and international clients are accepted. Prospective clients are asked to use the site’s matching process to book an initial appointment and to confirm current session formats before scheduling.

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Rosa draws on attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationships influence feelings and behaviours. This approach helps when recurring relationship patterns, attachment concerns or intimacy issues are central to the problem.

She also uses client-centred methods that focus on the person’s experience in the moment and on building a collaborative relationship. This helps clients who need to be heard and who benefit from a paced, reflective style of conversation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rosa will discuss different ways of working with the client and together decide what feels most useful. That collaborative decision is based on the client’s goals, current difficulties and preferences rather than a predetermined method.

Confirm the specific online session formats available before booking, as they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also makes it possible to continue therapy across borders and for people living abroad, while keeping the focus on practical ways to apply what is explored in sessions to everyday life.