About Rachael
Rachael Bentovim-Gill is a counsellor with four years of practice in personal settings and a long background in mental health and education. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, mood difficulties such as bipolar and depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around parenting and family life.
Rachael also supports people with eating or sleeping problems, grief, career pressures and coping with life changes. She draws on a mix of therapy styles to suit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions often use cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns of thinking and behaviour. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people make room for difficult feelings while moving towards their values. Attachment-Based and client-centred work are used to improve how people relate to themselves and others.
Rachael describes her approach as collaborative and practical. She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings. Sessions are adapted to the individual rather than following a fixed script.
Before independent practice she spent many years in mental health and education roles, plus senior positions mentoring teams and advising on wellbeing. That background informs her coaching and therapeutic style, especially for people juggling professional responsibilities and personal challenges. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Sessions are delivered in English and operate through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps towards them, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Online CBT sessions commonly include practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms of anxiety, low mood or phobias.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachael will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods might suit you. The choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you use visual cues similar to in-person sessions, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can provide shorter check-ins or ongoing written support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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