About Rachael
Rachael Holden uses a personable, client-centred approach to help people find clearer ways forward. She encourages small steps and practical tools that can reduce stress and ease overwhelming feelings. Rachael aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone worried or unsure about reaching out.
She works with people facing anxiety, depression and trauma and abuse. She also supports those dealing with relationship difficulties, grief, self-esteem struggles and issues around intimacy.
How Rachael works
Addictions, sleeping and eating concerns, and career or life transitions are within her focus too. Rachael draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness alongside longer-term psychodynamic thinking. She blends these with solution-focused ideas to help people set goals and notice what changes work for them.
The result is a flexible mix that can be shortened into practical steps or expanded for deeper reflection. With three years of experience and the NCPS credential, Rachael brings both compassion and structure to sessions. She aims to move at each person’s pace and to build coping strategies that fit day-to-day life.
She also offers coaching-style support when people want clearer direction. Rachael offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps connect people to her and schedule the first appointment.
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What Rachael works with
The areas below are the ones Rachael selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on allowing the person to lead sessions while the counsellor offers empathy and support; it helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to talk through feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression and managing stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, then agree a plan. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth, live chat suits people who prefer typing in the moment, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to attend sessions around work, travel or caring responsibilities while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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