About Rachael
Rachael Bentovim-Gill helps people facing stress, anxiety and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She supports people dealing with mood difficulties such as bipolar disorder and depression, and those wrestling with ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy matters. She also assists with parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, work stress and career questions.
Rachael works in a straightforward, practical way. She draws on several approaches to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use day to day and on making small changes that add up over time. Her background includes four years in independent practice and many more years working across mental health and education roles. She has experience mentoring and coaching teams at senior level and advising on workplace wellbeing.
That mix informs a practical style that balances emotional work with concrete strategies. In sessions she aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She adapts the pace to each person, and builds a plan together so therapy feels useful from week to week.
The work can include short-term coping skills and longer conversations about patterns and past experiences. People who choose Rachael often want a collaborative plan they can try between sessions. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural and acceptance-based approaches alongside attachment-focused listening.
The emphasis is on helping people move towards a more fulfilling, sustainable life.
How specific approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises and short homework tasks to build steady change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours. CBT works well through discussion, worksheets and practical experiments you can try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, personal preferences and how you like to learn. Together you and the therapist will shape a plan that may blend approaches and change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who have limited bandwidth. Live chat and messaging can support quick check-ins, short exercises or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress and accessible tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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