About Rachel
Rachel Challans is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and helps them find clearer ways to cope. Rachel uses straightforward, supportive conversation to help clients take the first steps towards change.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to difficult moments. Sessions focus on exploring what matters to the client and building practical ways to handle problems.
Background and approach
That might mean talking through relationship strain, grief, eating concerns, addiction patterns or challenges with self-esteem. Rachel draws on approaches that pay attention to relationships and the body. She aims to help people notice how past bonds influence current feelings and reactions.
She also uses body-focused techniques to help reduce tension and to ground strong emotions. Her practice is client-centred, which means sessions are guided by the client’s goals and pace. The work is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for each person.
Rachel supports people navigating life changes, bipolar or depression, ADHD, and other complex issues alongside more immediate worries. People meet Rachel online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. She speaks English and accepts international clients.
Practical matters such as cost and scheduling are handled through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape present feelings and reactions. In online work this helps people spot repeated patterns in relationships and try out different responses in day-to-day life. Client-Centred Therapy puts the client’s experience and goals at the centre of the session. It uses listening, reflection and gentle questioning so people feel heard and can make decisions at their own pace. Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily sensations and tension as part of emotional work. Simple exercises and noticing the body can reduce anxiety and ground strong emotions during or between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Rachel will work together with each person to decide which methods match their needs and aims. That could mean combining relationship-focused conversation with body-based practices, and adjusting the balance as the work progresses.
Online sessions come as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions may be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caring responsibilities or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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