Ilona Rakauskaite , BACP

Ilona Rakauskaite is a UK-based counsellor, coach and hypnotherapist with seven years of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and a range of life challenges. She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates her adherence to professional standards for counselling practice in the United Kingdom. Ilona works with issues including self-esteem, motivation, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, career concerns and compassion fatigue, and she also offers focused support around abandonment, attachment struggles, autism and Asperger syndrome, codependency, communication problems and other co-morbid presentations.

She approaches therapy from the view that each person is the expert of their own story and brings strengths that can be cultivated to navigate change. Ilona combines counselling, coaching and hypnotherapy techniques to help clients build insight, resilience and practical coping strategies tailored to their goals. She offers services in English and Lithuanian and is available to work with international clients when arrangements allow. Ilona is not currently accepting new clients, and she aims to provide a supportive, empowering environment for those she works with.

Attachment, Client-Centered, and Hypnotherapy Online

Ilona uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns - this approach helps people understand connection and trust issues and supports work on attachment wounds and relationship dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy is delivered with a focus on empathy and the client's own pace - it emphasizes active listening and helping people access their own strengths to make meaningful changes. Hypnotherapy is offered as a complementary technique to support relaxation, enhance focus and work with habits or deep-seated patterns that clients wish to change.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Ilona collaborates with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences. The work is tailored and reviewed together so methods can be adjusted as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for scheduling and make it possible to continue therapy from different locations. These formats allow licensed professionals and therapists to deliver consistent support while accommodating varied lifestyles and accessibility needs.