Rachel Huyton
Calm, practical support for difficult times
About Rachel
Rachel Huyton is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional practice. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or difficulties in close relationships. Rachel aims to make sessions calm and respectful so people can speak honestly and begin to feel steadier.
She adapts each session to the individual's needs and works collaboratively to set clear goals. Sessions can include practical relaxation and meditation techniques Rachel has used alongside talking therapy.
Background and approach
That combination is intended to help with low mood, panic, intrusive thoughts, and periods of feeling empty or isolated. Her background includes frontline counselling work and more than ten years of management experience in a mental health service, which shaped her understanding of how mental health issues affect daily life.
She draws on that experience when helping people face complex issues such as abuse, dissociation, addiction, and separation. Rachel uses client-centred and existential approaches to focus on what matters to the person in front of her. The client-centred style centres the person's own experience, while existential ideas help explore meaning, choices, and values.
Together these approaches are used to address concerns like attachment, body image, and life purpose. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Rachel asks people to suggest days and times when they contact her, and she will arrange an appointment to suit their schedule.
What Rachel works with
How Rachel works
Listed by Rachel among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred and existential approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens without judgement and responds to what matters most to the client, helping them find their own way forward. This approach can be useful for anxiety, low mood, grief, and relationship worries.Existential Therapy focuses on meaning, choice, and personal values. It helps people who feel stuck, aimless, or overwhelmed by big life questions to consider what matters and make deliberate choices. This style can be helpful when facing loss, identity concerns, or issues around purpose and belonging.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor and client will talk about goals, try methods that suit the person, and adjust if something does not fit. That collaborative process means the style of sessions often changes as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is close to a face-to-face meeting, phone can be shorter and needs less bandwidth, live chat allows typed reflection in the moment, and messaging works for ongoing check-ins or when people prefer not to use voice or video. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or mobility needs and to sustain regular contact over time.
| 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
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
