About Rachael
Rachael Davies is a counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist with eight years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with people who feel tired, anxious or stuck despite appearing to manage on the surface. She listens carefully and helps clients find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Rachael often meets people who carry the impact of past hurt. That might be trauma, loss, or long-standing patterns that began in childhood.
Background and approach
She offers a calm space to talk through those memories at a pace that feels safe. Her work blends talking therapy with practical tools. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at thought patterns, psychodynamic ideas to trace where patterns began, and hypnotherapy to access deeper change when appropriate.
Sessions can include reflection, skills to ease the nervous system, and short exercises to try between meetings. Rachael is experienced supporting issues such as anxiety, stress, depression, sleep problems, ADHD, grief and the effects of abuse. She also addresses attachment difficulties, obsessive or compulsive behaviours, phobias, panic, and relationship or family problems.
Her approach is adaptive rather than one-size-fits-all. She explains that therapy is a collaborative process. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to try and when to focus on practical coping or on exploring earlier experiences.
The aim is to help people feel more comfortable in their bodies and more able to trust their own judgement.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. It gives you room to tell your story while the counsellor reflects and helps you notice your own strengths and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives straightforward tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, panic and sleep problems.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss different approaches and together you will decide what to try based on your needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means methods can change over time, from practical skills to deeper exploration or hypnotherapy when appropriate.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation and are good for full sessions, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or daily life and let you continue work even when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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