About Rachel
Rachel Sprunt offers calm, down-to-earth online counselling for people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or not themselves right now. She writes plainly and listens carefully, helping clients talk through anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Rachel aims to create a gentle space where people can move at their own pace without judgement.
Rachel is a BACP counsellor with three years' professional experience. Before training in counselling she worked for more than a decade in leadership and business, and she brings that practical clarity into sessions.
How Rachel works
Her own life experiences - including cancer, divorce, motherhood and step-parenting - inform the empathy she brings to difficult conversations. Sessions focus on what the person needs in the moment. Rachel works from a person-centred stance and listens for what matters most, while offering honest and thoughtful reflections.
She helps people make sense of feelings tied to abandonment, attachment, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress and more. Rachel supports people dealing with the fallout from big changes, ongoing health issues, commitment worries, and the strain of caring for others.
She also talks through concerns linked to autism spectrum experiences, personality difficulties, blended family dynamics and sexual subcultures, using everyday language and practical curiosity. Therapy is offered remotely by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to match availability.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 and online options
Rachel works from a person-centred approach which focuses on listening, empathy and reflecting back what feels important. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard, make sense of emotions, and find their own solutions rather than receive direct advice.She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support mood and anxiety concerns. These techniques are practical and often involve noticing patterns, trying small changes and building coping strategies for stress, grief and low self-esteem.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Rachel will talk through options and adapt methods to each person's goals and preferences. The first few sessions are often used to understand needs, agree priorities and decide what feels most useful moving forward.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, allowing sessions to fit around work and family life. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text sessions can suit shorter check-ins or days when typing feels easier. This range makes it simpler to keep continuity and to choose what works best week to week.
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