About Rachel
Rachel Hamilton is a counsellor who aims to help people clear their minds and make sense of difficult feelings. She works in a warm, non-judgemental way and focuses on what matters to each person. Rachel offers a calm space to talk and listens carefully to understand the issues you bring.
She uses an integrative, person-centred approach that shapes sessions around individual needs and goals. That means sessions are paced to suit the client and guided by what they want to work on.
Background and approach
Rachel draws on a mix of approaches to address stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Her background includes voluntary work with victim support organisations, where she supported people affected by emotional abuse and sexual and domestic violence. That experience informs how she responds to trauma and sensitive topics during counselling.
Rachel is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, listed with the abbreviation BACP. She also holds a COSCA accredited Diploma in Counselling and a COSCA Certificate in Counselling. These qualifications are part of her professional foundation.
Clients can expect straightforward, supportive sessions that cover coping with life changes, self-esteem, parenting strains, sleep or eating problems, addiction and career concerns. Rachel also works with issues linked to neurodiversity and attachment. She aims to help people develop clearer ways to manage emotions and build steady routines.
The practical side is flexible. Sessions can be arranged online or by phone, and she accepts international clients. Rachel encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready and to choose a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Rachel commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours so people can build practical skills to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor a plan to the person’s goals, needs and preferences. This is a collaborative process and adjustments can be made as understanding grows.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can work for shorter check-ins, notes between sessions or when typing feels easier. These choices make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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