Rachel Lockwood, BACP

Rachel Lockwood offers a calm, person-centred way of working for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. She keeps the pace gentle and follows each person’s lead so conversations can unfold naturally. Rachel is named here as a BACP counsellor with five years of practice in the United Kingdom.

She meets people who bring worries such as anxiety, low mood, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, and identity issues. Rachel also supports those coping with sleep and eating difficulties, chronic illness or pain, and major life changes. The first part of the work is about feeling heard and understood.

Rachel uses a mix of approaches that match what a person needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and client-centred principles that keep the conversation focused on the person’s experience. She can also apply cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small practical changes.

Sessions can be used to talk through practical problems, process painful events, and practise new ways of responding. Rachel aims to be non-judgemental and straightforward in conversation so people can say things they have not said before.

Her background includes work across different counselling settings using narrative and psychodynamic influences alongside solution-focused tools. Rachel welcomes international clients and conducts work in English.

How Rachel’s approaches work online

Rachel uses client-centred work to focus on the person’s own experience, offering steady, non-judgemental listening and helping clients find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs a space to be heard and to make sense of difficult feelings.

She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at recurring patterns in close relationships and how earlier connections affect present reactions. That can help when relationship trust, intimacy, or fear of abandonment are causing distress. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test small behavioural changes that can ease anxiety or low mood.

Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different ways of working, and adapt methods to match what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.

Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging make therapy more flexible. Video lets you meet face to face, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing, and different formats can be combined to fit work and family schedules.