About Rachel
Rachel Challans is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She emphasises a respectful, person-led approach and sees clients as experts in their own stories. Rachel encourages practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Her work covers common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression and mood issues including bipolar. She also helps people facing addiction, relationship and intimacy difficulties, grief, body image and eating concerns.
How Rachel works
Parenting strain, family conflict and challenges linked to adoption or foster care are included among her focus areas. Rachel offers support around trauma and abuse, attachment difficulties, and related issues such as abandonment and codependency. She also works with neurodiversity topics like autism and Asperger syndrome, and with people exploring kink and alternative sexual cultures.
Her practice draws on attachment-based methods, client-centred principles and somatic and trauma-focused approaches. Sessions aim to build safety, help people make sense of painful experiences, and develop coping strategies that fit everyday life. Rachel accepts clients from outside the UK and conducts sessions in English.
People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space where practical choices are discussed alongside emotional healing.
Rachel lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Rachel works with
The areas below are the ones Rachel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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
Therapeutic approaches suited to online counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships and feelings. In online sessions this helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust, and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Client-centred therapy puts the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, making it easier to talk through worries, low self-esteem or relationship questions in a way that feels supportive. Somatic therapy pays attention to bodily sensations that come with stress and trauma. Even through video or phone, clients can be guided to notice breathing, tension or grounding techniques that reduce overwhelm and improve daily coping. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and comfort level, and can adapt the plan as therapy progresses. Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat suits people who type best, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel.Start online instead of waiting
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