Rachael Walker
Supportive counsellor for anxiety and life changes
About Rachael
Rachael Walker helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, stress or life transitions. She works with adults on issues such as self-esteem, grief, relationship difficulties and coping with change. Rachael is introduced by name at the start of the relationship and aims to make the first steps straightforward and calm for someone worried or unsure about counselling.
Rachael is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has five years of professional experience.
Background and approach
She draws on practical, everyday conversation to help people understand their thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and building small, manageable skills to cope better day to day. Her approach is collaborative and person-focused.
Rachael listens without judgement and encourages people to find their own answers rather than handing out advice. This way of working aims to strengthen a person’s confidence to make changes that feel right for them. Rachael uses elements of Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to suit the needs of the individual.
She picks approaches that fit the person’s goals and tailors what happens in sessions to help them move forward. People can expect clear, plain talk and practical tools alongside time to make sense of their feelings. The work is paced to the individual, with an emphasis on small steps that add up to meaningful change.
What Rachael works with
How Rachael works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and supporting the person to lead the conversation. It helps when someone needs acceptance and time to make sense of feelings without being told what to do. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and teaches practical techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviours. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress where patterns can be identified and worked on.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Rachael will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then tailor sessions so the method fits the person rather than the other way round. This choice is reviewed as progress is made so the plan can be adapted when needed.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone sessions can be easier with low bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports shorter ongoing contact. These options help people fit counselling around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
