Rachel Kilburn

Rachel Kilburn is a BACP-registered counsellor in the United Kingdom with ten years of practice. She works with adults on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, bereavement, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Rachel also supports people who want coaching around life purpose and those affected by trauma and abuse.

She uses an integrative style, bringing together Client-Centred approaches, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic ideas, Solution-Focused work and Trauma-Focused methods. That means she adapts the way she works to suit each person’s needs rather than applying a single method to everyone. Sessions often involve talking through recent problems, looking at patterns from the past and trying practical steps to reduce day-to-day distress.

Clients can expect short, clear conversations about what is causing the struggle and what might help next. Rachel names relationships, caregiver stress, control issues, guilt and isolation as common topics she addresses. She also works with workplace pressures, panic attacks, social anxiety and women’s issues.

Her approach aims to make emotional experience easier to put into words. She sometimes uses creative ways to help people express feelings that are hard to say aloud. Rachel emphasises moving at a pace that feels manageable and helping people try different ways of relating to past events.

The first meeting focuses on gathering information and beginning a working relationship. Practical steps and reflective conversation can follow, with options explored collaboratively as therapy continues.

Approaches Rachel Uses and how online work can fit

Rachel draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT is often useful for anxiety, panic and low mood because it offers clear strategies to test and shift patterns that keep problems going.

She also uses Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on careful listening and working at a pace the person can manage. This approach is helpful when someone needs time to make sense of feelings linked to loss, relationship difficulties or life transitions.

Finding the right fit is part of the process. Rachel will discuss different approaches and decide together with the client what to try first based on personal goals and how they prefer to work. That collaborative planning can be revisited as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it straightforward to continue sessions after a move or when schedules change, with choices about how to work agreed with the therapist.