About Rachel
Rachel Hamilton offers a person-centred, integrative approach to counselling that starts with listening. She focuses on building a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through worries at their own pace. Rachel makes sessions practical and down-to-earth to help people find clearer thinking and steadier coping skills.
She tailors each session around the individual’s needs and goals rather than following a fixed script. That can mean using cognitive behavioural tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts, drawing on acceptance and commitment ideas to live by chosen values, or supporting emotion regulation strategies for intense feelings.
How Rachel works
The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort. Rachel has five years of professional experience and has volunteered with Victim Support Scotland and Healed Scars. That work gave her hands-on experience supporting people affected by emotional abuse, trauma, domestic and sexual violence.
Her background includes a COSCA accredited Diploma in Counselling and a COSCA Certificate in Counselling, and she is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists - BACP. Rachel combines these foundations with an empathetic, steady presence in sessions.
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, addiction, ADHD, self-esteem and life changes. Sessions are structured around what the person wants to address, with practical steps and gentle pacing to help progress. Therapy can include short-term focused work or longer conversations depending on need.
Rachel aims to make the first steps easier by offering clear, respectful support and straightforward ways to move forward.
Rachel lists 11 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Rachel’s approaches work online
Rachel commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred methods in her work. ACT focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without being ruled by them and commit to actions that match their values, which can help with anxiety, low mood and life changes. Client-Centred therapy centres the person’s experience, offering empathic listening and space to make sense of feelings, which often helps with grief, relationship strain and self-esteem.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Rachel will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, then recommend ways of working that fit the person rather than making assumptions. This collaborative process means approaches can be blended and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can fit around a busy schedule. These options make it simpler to keep sessions regular and to match the format to how someone prefers to communicate.
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