Rachael Bentovim-Gill
Experienced therapist blending therapy and coaching
About Rachael
Rachael Bentovim-Gill helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar and depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family problems, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem and career setbacks. She also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Rachael uses practical methods so people can start feeling steadier and more able to cope.
Rachael has four years' clinical experience as a therapist in independent practice.
Background and approach
Before that she worked for many years in mental health and education, and spent a long time mentoring teams and advising on mental health at senior level. Her background means she brings both front-line experience and a coaching mindset to sessions. Her approach is flexible and tailored.
She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot patterns of thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and move towards them, and attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. She also uses client-centred listening and elements from dialectical work where emotion regulation is needed. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
Rachael aims to make conversations straightforward and practical. She works with each person to set steps that feel achievable between sessions. People can expect calm, direct guidance and coaching-style support alongside therapeutic exploration.
Rachael encourages honest conversation and helps people build skills to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
What Rachael works with
How Rachael works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and situations where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting and changing patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and helps people build healthier ways of relating and regulating emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means the plan can be adjusted over time if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let conversations feel most like in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, paced reflection, or people who like writing their thoughts instead of speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family responsibilities and daily life while still using ACT, CBT or attachment-focused work effectively.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
