About Rachael
Rachael Walker is a counsellor who works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She aims to help clients build confidence, manage low mood, and find clearer direction when life feels stuck. Rachael’s practice is grounded in warmth and a non-judgemental attitude to make it easier to talk about difficult things.
She is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and has five years of professional experience.
Background and approach
Rachael describes the counselling relationship as a collaboration where the client leads and she listens, asks questions and reflects what she hears. She does not give advice or tell clients what to do; instead she helps them find their own solutions. Rachael uses an integrative approach, drawing mainly on client-centred ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques.
She thinks carefully about which elements will suit each person and adapts sessions to match their needs. In practical terms this can mean helping someone notice unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding. Sessions focus on making sense of feelings and behaviour, building coping skills, and slowly changing patterns that no longer help.
Rachael also supports people working through grief, relationship concerns, trauma and parenting strain among other issues. She aims to leave clients feeling more aware of themselves and better able to handle everyday challenges. People who choose Rachael can expect a calm, steady presence and a collaborative style that values their pace.
Her goal is to help people develop tools they can use after therapy ends.
How Rachael’s approaches work online
Rachael draws mainly on client-centred ideas and cognitive behavioural work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and creating a caring space so people can explore thoughts and feelings at their own pace. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and build self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking. CBT techniques can help with anxiety, low mood and developing coping strategies for stressful situations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. Rachael will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit. She adapts the balance between listening-based work and practical CBT tasks so the therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online formats make joining sessions easier for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option and can be easier when movement or camera time is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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