Benjamin Raffles
Experienced counsellor for life changes
About Benjamin
Benjamin Raffles is a counsellor with eight years of professional practice. He works from the United Kingdom and offers help for stress, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem and depression. Benjamin focuses on practical, down-to-earth conversations that aim to make day-to-day life easier to manage.
He began by running an independent counselling practice and set up a low-cost service so more people could access help. After qualifying as a counsellor he launched a independent practice in Somerset, UK.
Background and approach
His background includes hands-on experience helping people through difficult life changes and emotional strain. Benjamin uses an integrative approach, combining ideas from person-centred work, Gestalt, transactional analysis and related ways of working. He adapts methods to fit what each person needs rather than using a fixed formula.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with a focus on what the person wants to change. In a session he seeks to listen with curiosity and respect, and to offer gentle challenges when they are helpful. He supports people to notice patterns, try new responses and build coping strategies.
That can look like talking through difficult feelings, rehearsing conversations, or finding small, manageable steps to try between sessions. Benjamin also helps with issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose and midlife transition. He is experienced with panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety and financial or control-related worries.
Sessions aim to be practical, hopeful and tailored to each person’s goals.
What Benjamin works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Benjamin commonly draws on person-centred work which focuses on listening and believing that the person knows themselves best; this helps people gain clarity and confidence. He also uses Gestalt ideas that encourage noticing present moment experience and experimenting with new ways of relating to feelings and others, which can help with anxiety and relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help you identify what feels most useful based on your needs, goals and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and decide what to continue or adapt as you go.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video lets you have a face-to-face style conversation; phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing contact and flexibility when schedules make longer appointments difficult. These options make it easier to maintain therapy alongside work, family and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
