Rachel Challans, BACP

Rachel Challans is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and the after-effects of trauma and abuse. Rachel frames clients as the experts in their own lives and aims to support people as they make changes.

She uses a gentle, person-focused style that values each person’s strengths. Sessions are aimed at making space to talk, to notice patterns, and to try small, practical changes. Rachel listens for the concerns that matter most and works together with clients to set clear, manageable goals.

Her background includes work around grief, parenting strains, addiction, eating concerns, mood conditions such as depression and bipolar, and challenges linked to attention differences. She also pays attention to issues like body image, attachment, and alternative sexual cultures including BDSM and kink when these come up in therapy.

Rachel uses approaches that centre relationships and the body. She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. Somatic and trauma-focused ways of working help when past experiences are held in the body or feel overwhelming.

Her professional affiliation is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. Sessions are available in English and international clients may be accepted; readers should confirm current arrangements before booking.

How Rachel’s approaches translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can be used to notice repeating patterns in relationships and to practise new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-centred therapy emphasises listening and the client’s own pace; this helps people feel heard and to set goals that matter to them. Somatic approaches pay attention to bodily signals and simple grounding techniques to reduce overwhelm and tension.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Rachel works together with clients to pick methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts as work progresses so that sessions remain relevant and manageable.

The therapist’s profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, cut down travel, allow brief check-ins between commitments, or make sessions possible when people are living in different places. Registered or accredited professionals can offer this flexibility while helping clients try practical strategies from attachment, client-centred and somatic approaches.