About Rachel
Rachel Shaw supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and life changes. She helps with depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, addiction and workplace pressures. Rachel also addresses issues such as low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue and ADHD related challenges.
Rachel works in a person-centred way that treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens without judgement and encourages clients to explore feelings at their own pace.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase self-understanding and build practical ways to cope with difficult moments. Her approach is pluralistic, which means she draws on several evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to what each person needs. That might include talking through past experiences, looking at how attachment and abandonment shape relationships, or developing tools to manage panic and intrusive thoughts.
In sessions Rachel often focuses on how childhood events influence current patterns. She helps people notice unhelpful cycles such as avoidant behaviour, codependency or control issues, and then work on small changes that feel doable. The work is steady and practical rather than rushed.
Rachel has three years of experience and uses the credential NCPS as a professional identifier. She practises from the United Kingdom and holds appointments by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Rachel uses person-centred work which puts the person's experience at the centre of each session. This approach focuses on active listening and reflection to help people make sense of their feelings and choices, useful for anxiety, low mood and self-esteem concerns.She also uses a pluralistic mix of evidence-based techniques drawn from established therapeutic methods. That might include practical skills for managing panic and stress, strategies to address unhelpful relationship patterns like codependency or avoidance, and reflective work on attachment and abandonment experiences.
Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, trial different ways of working, and adapt the approach as the relationship develops so the work fits personal preferences and needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have limited bandwidth, live chat and messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when a quick contact fits around a busy day. These formats aim to offer flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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