Ilona Rakauskaite
Compassionate support for stress and life changes
About Ilona
Ilona Rakauskaite helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She is Ilona and she combines talking, practical steps and gentle techniques to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. She works in English and Lithuanian and practises as a BACP counsellor.
Ilona uses an attachment-based outlook to notice how past relationships shape current reactions. That helps when abandonment, trust or connection issues keep repeating.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centred ways of working, which put the person’s own goals and pace at the centre of each session. Mindfulness and hypnotherapy techniques are offered when calming attention and changing unhelpful patterns are useful. These approaches can support stress, low mood, and difficulties such as addiction or rumination.
Motivational interviewing helps when people want to change habits or find motivation for new directions. Her work is practical and down to earth. Sessions aim to identify small, achievable steps and clearer ways to cope.
Ilona treats each person as the expert on their life and helps them build on their strengths. Ilona has seven years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, family problems, career uncertainty, compassion fatigue and complex issues like dissociation or co-morbidity. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in several formats to suit different needs.
What Ilona works with
How Ilona works
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Sessions & fees
How Ilona’s approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at patterns from past relationships and how they affect present reactions. Online sessions can use conversation and focused exercises to help people notice triggers and try different responses in day-to-day life. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s agenda. In an online setting this means time to talk, set goals and move at a comfortable pace while the counsellor reflects and clarifies what matters most.Mindfulness practice is offered as short, guided exercises that help reduce rumination and ease stress. These exercises can be done during video calls or as recordings to practise between sessions. Ilona will discuss which combination of methods feels most useful and will work with each person to shape the plan. Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is decided together, based on needs, goals and preferences.
Online formats give flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and shared exercises. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a call is easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, step-by-step planning, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. Many people find this mix helps therapy fit around work, family and travel 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Lithuanian
