Rachel Shaw
Helpful support for emotional overwhelm
About Rachel
Rachel Shaw helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, grief and issues around intimacy. She also supports people facing career changes, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and the challenges of ADHD. Rachel's approach aims to make difficult feelings easier to understand and manage.
Rachel holds NCPS, which indicates a professional registration in counselling. She has three years of experience working with adults who are seeking clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as reflecting on past experiences that still affect day-to-day life. In sessions Rachel works in a person-centred way that treats the client as the expert in their own life. She brings a pluralistic outlook too, drawing on different therapeutic techniques to match each person's needs.
This means conversations can move between exploring feelings, learning coping tools, and trying new ways of relating. Therapy often begins with identifying immediate problems to make life more manageable. From there Rachel helps clients notice patterns that come from earlier relationships or childhood experiences.
Together they build strategies for clearer communication, healthier boundaries and steadier moods. Practical concerns are part of the work. Rachel provides tools for anxiety, anger and addiction, and supports people through grief, relationship ruptures and separation.
The focus is on small, achievable changes that add up to better day-to-day functioning and greater self-understanding.
What Rachel works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Rachel uses a person-centred approach that focuses on understanding the person's experience and strengths. This method involves listening closely and helping people make sense of their feelings so they can choose the changes they want to make. She also follows a pluralistic way of working, which means drawing on different evidence-based techniques depending on the issue at hand. That might mean practising grounding and breathing exercises for anxiety, working on communication skills for relationship problems, or addressing patterns that stem from early attachment for people with abandonement or attachment issues. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their preferences and needs. If one technique does not feel helpful she will adapt the plan so the work remains practical and relevant. Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of formats to suit different days and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and live chat or text messaging can fit into busy schedules or provide easier, shorter check-ins. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while fitting therapy around work, parenting or other commitments.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
