Rachel Sprunt
Compassionate online counselling for major life challenges
About Rachel
Rachel Sprunt offers calm, down-to-earth online counselling for people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or not quite themselves. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and non-judgemental, meeting clients where they are and moving at their pace. Rachel uses simple, clear language and a warm presence to help people untangle what feels difficult right now.
Her work focuses on common life stresses such as anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to areas like abandonment, attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, caregiver strain and challenges related to neurodiversity. Sessions are practical and conversational rather than overly clinical. Rachel trained as a counsellor and holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP.
Before counselling she spent more than a decade in leadership and business roles, and she brings that straightforward, focused way of working into sessions. Her life experience includes surviving cancer, navigating divorce, motherhood and step-parenting, which she says informs her empathy and direct style.
Therapy with Rachel typically involves listening closely, reflecting back what she hears, and helping people notice choices and next steps. People can expect regular check-ins and gentle challenges when those feel helpful. The aim is clearer thinking and more manageable daily living.
Sessions take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Rachel works in English and sees people based in the United Kingdom.
What Rachel works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that shape online counselling
Rachel describes a person-centred approach that focuses on listening, reflecting and supporting a person to find their own answers. This way of working helps when someone needs a steady, non-directive space to untangle feelings like grief, anxiety or low self-esteem.She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to structure sessions and support practical change. These techniques often involve setting small goals, practising coping strategies and using focused conversations to shift unhelpful patterns. That can help with everyday stress, mood difficulties and adapting to life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will work with each person to decide which ways of working fit best with their needs, goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video suits longer sessions where face-to-face contact helps, phone can be good when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility and make regular support more accessible for people in the United Kingdom.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
