Rebecca Dalton

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MSc - MBACP - APAP
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location_on Oxfordshire OX2 & London W1F
Limited availability
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This professional is accepting new clients but may have a waitlist. Please enquire with them directly to discuss availability.

About me

At the core of Motivating Minds is a conversation about what truly matters. With years of professional and personal experience, I offer psychotherapy and coaching that provides insight, understanding, guidance, and practical solutions for individuals, couples, teenagers, and families. My goal is to inspire motivation, recovery, and wellness in a safe, completely non-judgmental environment.

Why might you need support? 

You may want to talk to someone who truly understands—someone who not only listens but also helps you find practical solutions. Are you struggling to make sense of your thoughts and change your behaviors? Do you feel different, misunderstood, or isolated? If you suspect you have ADHD or have received a diagnosis, you might be seeking guidance and coaching.

Perhaps you need support for your overall mental health or coping with life’s stressors. If self-medication through drinking, drug use, gambling, technology, or impulsive behaviors has become unhealthy, it’s important to reach out. If addiction or dependency is a concern, seeking guidance in recovery can be a vital step. Additionally, if you’re worried about a loved one and feel alone in that struggle, support is available.

How can I help?

Motivating Minds is all about openness, connection, and the understanding that recovery is possible. By enhancing the motivation to change through coaching and therapy, we collaboratively develop a plan of action. By focusing on strengths, abilities, and desired outcomes, we elicit change and guide the belief in achieving your individual goals.

I offer step-by-step counselling, coaching and mediation for adults, teenagers, couples and families, individually or in a group setting to motivate positive change. I work support people from all walks of life with unhealthy dependency, ADHD, relationship concerns, anxiety and depression, low self-esteem and lack of motivation and more. I also offer guidance and support for significant others wishing to understand compulsive behaviours, ADHD, addiction and support family members and loved ones through the recovery process.

My integrated approach includes:

  • Person-Centred Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing Techniques
  • 12 Step facilitation
  • Relapse Prevention
  • Couples and family mediation
  • Brief intervention
  • Solution focussed therapy
  • Long term therapy

How do I get in touch?

Simply send me an email and we can arrange a confidential, informal and no-obligation telephone or an online chat.  The treatment approach is tailored to meet your needs, therefore I provide flexibility, in and outside office hours. Once or twice a week if required or less regularly to enable clients to feel fully supported.

All my work is trauma-informed, meaning I follow the guiding principles of Safety, Choice, Collaboration, Trustworthiness and Empowerment.

Training, qualifications & experience

I hold a Master's degree in Addiction Psychology and Counselling. I am also a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [MBACP] and an Accredited Member of Addiction Professionals [APAP]. I have previously managed an addiction service and provided support in schools: For 15 years I worked and managed homelessness and outreach services in Oxfordshire, including support for teenage parents, and survivors of domestic abuse.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).

Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).

Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.

Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.

All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.

Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Therapies offered

Fees

£85.00 per session
Free initial telephone session

When I work

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I am currently unable to offer weekend and evening appointments.

Further information

I have over 24 years of experience working with individuals, groups, and families.

My experience began with supporting 16-25-year-olds in supported housing and schools, and working with outreach services. I then developed my role and accepted the position of Manager of an addiction service in Oxfordshire. Through additional training and completing my Masters degree I founded my own small private practice working with all individuals from all walks of life including business professionals. 

I passionately believe that every individual deserves the right to reach their full potential, regardless of their personal history or life choices. I aim to reduce the stigma associated with anxiety and depression, neurodiversity, alcohol and substance use. Improve mental health, and ensure a person-centred and non-judgmental approach to therapy.

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Young adults (18-24)
Adults (25-64)
Older Adults (65+)
Couples
Families
Groups
Organisations

Key details

DBS check info

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Wheelchair user access info
Wheelchair user access

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Online platforms

Whatsapp
Zoom
Microsoft Teams
Rebecca Dalton
Rebecca Dalton