Rachel Hamilton
Calm person-centred counselling for life challenges
About Rachel
Rachel Hamilton offers a person-centred, integrative approach to counselling. She aims to make the first step easier by creating a calm space where people can talk about what is worrying them. Rachel listens without judgement and works at a pace that feels comfortable for each person.
Her work focuses on day-to-day pressures like stress and anxiety, and on longer-term issues such as grief, relationship concerns and trauma. She also supports people dealing with depression, low self-esteem, addiction and challenges linked to identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
Rachel draws on a range of therapeutic ideas to match the session to the need. She uses practical conversations to help people make sense of difficult feelings and to build coping strategies. Sessions often involve exploring patterns in thoughts and behaviour, naming emotions, and finding steps that feel achievable.
The aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to manage life’s demands. Rachel has five years of counselling experience and has volunteered with organisations supporting victims of abuse. That work gave her direct experience helping people recover from emotional abuse, domestic and sexual violence, and other traumatic events.
She holds the COSCA Diploma in Counselling and a COSCA Certificate in Counselling, and is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, the Person Centred Therapy Scotland group, and the National Counselling Society. Rachel works with English-speaking clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Sessions & fees
How Rachel’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily routines. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleeping and eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT or a person-centred direction suits the issue and the pace the person prefers.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or be chosen when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and work well for people who prefer writing or need brief check-ins. Registered and accredited professionals provide these formats so people can choose what fits their routine and access support from different locations.
| 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
