About Ilona
Ilona Rakauskaite offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She speaks English and Lithuanian and works online with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Ilona aims to help people build confidence, find motivation and cope when things feel overwhelming.
Ilona uses a client-centred style that puts each person's experience first. Sessions focus on listening, understanding personal strengths and setting small, realistic goals. Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help steady emotions and reduce anxiety in day-to-day life.
How Ilona works
Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This can help when people struggle with abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems or difficulties forming close bonds. Hypnotherapy is also available as an option for those who want to work with deeper patterns and habit change.
She has seven years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation. That background supports work with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and family problems, anger, career stress and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, co-morbidity and codependency.
Sessions are practical and paced to each person. Ilona encourages reflection and action in equal measure, helping people to leave therapy with clearer choices and steps to move forward.
Ilona lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Ilona works with
The areas below are the ones Ilona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Lithuanian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Ilona's approaches work online
Ilona draws on client-centred work to focus on each person's story and strengths, helping them set realistic goals and make choices that fit their life. Mindfulness therapy is used to teach simple breathing and attention exercises that reduce anxiety and make emotions easier to manage.Attachment-based therapy explores how early relationships influence current patterns of relating and trust. This approach can be useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems or struggles forming close bonds. The therapist will discuss hypnotherapy when appropriate as an option to address deeper habits or to support behaviour change.
Deciding on the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, try different techniques where helpful, and adapt the plan as progress is seen. Clients are involved in choosing what feels manageable and useful.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel. Video is well suited to longer conversational sessions, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat allow short check-ins or flexible support between calls. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and skill building.
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