Rachel Shaw, NCPS

Rachel Shaw, NCPS, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in relationship patterns. She works with worries about stress, low mood, grief, intimacy, addiction, ADHD and the fallout from past trauma. Rachel uses a person-centred stance that treats the client as the expert on their life and aims to create calm and clearer thinking.

Rachel draws on a pluralistic way of working, which means she mixes techniques to suit each person. Sessions focus on noticing what’s happening now and understanding how earlier experiences affect current choices. Practical tools are offered alongside reflective conversations to help manage panic, mood dips and stress in day-to-day life.

Her background centres on healing childhood trauma while considering mind, body and spirit. The NCPS credential appears with her name as a recorded qualification. Rachel has three years of experience in the field, and she practices in the United Kingdom.

In sessions she encourages people to name what they need and to try small changes that fit their life. Discussions often cover attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, communication and commitment issues. Work can also address body image, guilt and shame, infidelity and substance concerns.

Therapy aims to help people reconnect with themselves and act in line with their values. Rachel supports exploration at a steady pace and helps clients build practical coping strategies. If you want to understand how the past shapes the present, she offers a reflective, person-led approach to that work.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Rachel uses a person-centred method that focuses on the client’s own goals and lived experience. This approach emphasises listening, reflecting and helping people find their own answers, which can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and relationship confusion.

She also works pluralistically, combining techniques from different evidence-based methods to suit the person. That might mean pairing reflective dialogue with practical exercises for managing panic, building self-esteem or changing unhelpful patterns such as codependency.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss different options with the client and agree what feels most useful. Plans are reviewed as work progresses so methods can change if something is not helping.

If you are considering online therapy, check the session formats offered before booking so you know what is available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time and keep continuity when life is unpredictable. It also allows shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling when needed, which can help maintain momentum between face-to-face meetings when those are possible.