Rachael Walker, BACP

Rachael Walker is a counsellor with five years' experience who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She works with people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and a range of life changes. Rachael aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can start to talk through difficult feelings and build practical coping skills.

Rachael is a BACP member, which means she follows the professional standards set by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. She uses a blend of approaches and adapts them to each person rather than offering one fixed method. That lets her focus on what will help a particular client most.

Her approach is collaborative. She listens first and avoids giving direct answers or advice. Instead she helps people notice patterns in their thinking and behaviour, and encourages them to try different ways of responding to problems.

Rachael often draws on elements of person-centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help clients make sense of their moods and reactions. She prioritises practical tools that people can use between sessions to manage anxiety, low mood, and relationship worries.

Over time she supports clients to build self-awareness and new habits. The emphasis is on learning to recognise unhelpful thinking, developing coping strategies, and taking small steps towards change.

How Rachael uses talking therapies online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on offering a respectful, non-judgemental space. It helps people feel heard and to explore emotions at their own pace, which can aid work on self-esteem, grief and relationship worries.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It offers practical exercises and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful thinking patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachael will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. She adapts techniques to fit the individual rather than using a single formula.

Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and avoid travel. They can also be useful for shorter check-ins or for using worksheets and exercises together. The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available formats before booking. Overall, online work aims to offer the same collaborative focus on practical skills and self-understanding as face-to-face work, while making sessions easier to fit into everyday life.