About Rachel
Rachel Barrett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward, practical conversation to help people feel less overwhelmed. She aims to make the first steps feel achievable and approachable.
With three years of professional practice Rachel draws on several established approaches to shape sessions. She offers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness-based work to help clients change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions also reflect client-centred and attachment-based thinking, so people influence the pace and focus of their own work. Rachel works with concerns such as relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and grief. She also supports people facing anger, major life changes, compassion fatigue and questions about life purpose.
Additional areas she attends to include ADHD, communication problems, commitment issues and body image. In a session Rachel encourages clear, simple goals and practical steps between meetings. She uses gentle questioning and reflective listening to help people make sense of difficult feelings.
The aim is to develop tools that can be used day to day, not just in the therapy room. Clients can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk through problems. Rachel highlights the courage it takes to start therapy and works to make the process steady and manageable for each person.
How Rachel uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small committed actions so people can move toward the life they want despite anxiety or stress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to reduce distress and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current trust and connection, which can help with relationship difficulties and feelings of emptiness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try together. Over a few sessions the approach can be adjusted so it fits what works for you practically and emotionally.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between appointments or use shorter, written check-ins. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to access consistent support from registered or accredited professionals regardless of location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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