Rachael Hough
Practical counselling for stress and trauma
About Rachael
Rachael Hough offers practical, evidence-based counselling to help people make sense of difficult times. She presents as calm and direct, and focuses on breaking problems into small, manageable steps so conversations feel useful from the start. Rachael works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem.
She draws on three years of experience supporting people with complex mental health issues and has previously worked for two mental health charities.
Background and approach
In sessions she avoids giving simple advice. Instead she helps people find their own answers through guided reflection and practical tools. This approach suits people who want to understand their reactions and try realistic changes between sessions.
Rachael is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which she uses as a professional framework for her work. She offers one-to-one conversations tailored to each person’s situation and pace. People can expect a supportive, straightforward style and a focus on what is most pressing right now.
Rachael aims to help clients recognise what feels normal for them, and then build steps toward clearer thinking and small improvements.
What Rachael works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-based approaches and accessible online care
Rachael uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One approach focuses on helping people understand and reduce anxiety by identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with small, realistic experiments. Another approach helps process trauma and emotional pain by working at a pace chosen by the person, using grounding and stabilising strategies before addressing difficult memories.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Rachael will discuss different methods during early sessions and tailor what she offers to the person's goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family life, or mobility limits. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on steady progress and usable tools.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
