Rachel Challans
Supportive counsellor for relationship and trauma concerns
About Rachel
Rachel Challans is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and mood swings, and supports those coping with addiction and grief. Rachel also addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns alongside family and parenting strains.
She approaches people as the experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer understanding rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Rachel aims to make the first steps feel manageable and to create a supportive, hopeful space. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse and a focus on attachment and relationship dynamics. She draws on methods that centre the client, pay attention to bodily responses, and address traumatic memories when they are present.
This mix helps when emotions feel overwhelming or when patterns repeat in relationships. Rachel is comfortable talking about identity and LGBT concerns, body image and eating difficulties, and complicated family histories such as adoption and foster care. She also works with people dealing with anger, control issues, codependency and communication problems.
Sessions are offered in English and Rachel accepts international clients. She uses a subscription model for sessions which can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to her availability.
What Rachel works with
How Rachel works
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Sessions & fees
How attachment and trauma approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work looks at where people feel safe or stuck in relationships and supports changes in how they connect with others.Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the process. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what is said, and helps clients make their own choices about next steps.
Somatic Therapy pays attention to the body's responses to stress and trauma. In sessions this can mean noticing breath, tension or posture and using gentle techniques to help people feel more regulated and grounded.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client's needs, goals and preferences so the plan fits the individual. This is a collaborative process that can change over time.
Online formats make sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in, while live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer typing or need short, frequent contact. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
