Rachael Holden
Positive, client-centred counselling for practical change
About Rachael
Rachael Holden works from a client-centred foundation that aims to help people feel heard and supported. She offers empathetic, non-judgemental counselling to help people make clearer decisions and build emotional resilience. Rachael is based in the United Kingdom and speaks English.
She meets people where they are and moves at their pace. Sessions focus on identifying simple, realistic goals and strengthening everyday coping strategies. Rachael draws on client-centred therapy alongside cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to help manage stress, anxiety and depression.
Background and approach
Rachael has three years of professional experience and uses a trauma-informed lens when addressing abuse, grief and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, neurodiversity questions such as autism and ADHD, and work-related difficulties like burnout and compassion fatigue. Practical tools form a core part of her work.
That includes thought‑behaviour patterns from CBT, grounding and breathing from mindfulness, and collaborative reflection from psychodynamic ideas. Rachael uses short-term solution-focused methods when someone wants quick changes or clearer next steps. Her wider focus covers body image, parenting challenges, chronic illness and caregiver stress, career and self-esteem issues, and longer-term concerns such as bipolar management and grief.
People who want a positive, empowering approach to therapy may find her style helpful.
What Rachael works with
How Rachael works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that fit into online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement. It helps people clarify what they want from life and make their own decisions, which can be useful for issues like low self-esteem and relationship doubts.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical exercises and simple techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful behaviour patterns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches basic attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve sleep. Short, regular practices can support emotional regulation and help with rumination and worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the individual about their needs, goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods together in a collaborative way.
Online therapy brings flexibility to this process. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer to write or want ongoing, brief contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family life 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
- 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
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
