Benjamin Raffles
Compassionate integrative counselling for practical change
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About Benjamin
Benjamin Raffles is a counsellor with eight years of practice since qualifying, based in the United Kingdom. He began his career running an independent counselling practice and helped set up a low-cost service so counselling could be more accessible. His work aims to centre the person who comes to therapy and to treat their experience with empathy and respect.
Benjamin uses an integrative approach that adapts techniques to fit each person.
Background and approach
He draws on ideas from person-centred work, Gestalt and transactional analysis alongside modern philosophical ideas such as existentialism. This mix means sessions can feel different from one person to the next, shaped around what helps most. In sessions he treats the client as the expert on their life while offering guidance and new ways of looking at things.
Conversations can be straightforward and practical or more exploratory, depending on the issue. He says therapy can be both empowering and challenging, and that change often comes from steady effort. Benjamin helps with everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression.
He also supports people facing relationship issues, panic attacks, phobias, loneliness and major life changes. Additional focus areas include guilt and shame, grief around abandonment, money worries and midlife questions. Sessions are run from his independent practice in Somerset and he works in English.
His professional credential is NCPS. If someone wants to begin, they can use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule a session.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 8
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Registration number
- NCS17-04175
- Languages
- English
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Benjamin's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Benjamin works with
Everything Benjamin lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
How Benjamin works online
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Benjamin will work collaboratively to identify which methods feel most useful for the person's goals and preferences. That may mean trying different ways of working early on and agreeing what to keep or change as sessions progress.
Practical benefits of online therapy depend on the formats offered, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around day-to-day commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to use techniques together with the counsellor in ordinary settings, helping therapy translate into real life. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists who use integrative methods, can discuss which setup will best support the work during the first meeting.
Questions and answers
What concerns does he help with?
Benjamin works with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, plus relationship difficulties and coping with life changes.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
He takes an integrative approach, adapting techniques to suit each person and combining person-centred, Gestalt and transactional analysis ideas.
How long has he been practising?
He has eight years of practice since qualifying as a counsellor and previously managed independent and low-cost counselling services.
What credentials and location are listed?
He holds the NCPS credential and works from a practice in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can people outside the UK book sessions?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What should someone do to start therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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