Rachel | Counsellor

Registrations

• BACP - The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• The Professional Standards Authority
• TCUK - Therapycounselling UK
• ASIIP - The Adlerian Society UK Institute for Individual Psychology

Specialisations

As an Adlerian counsellor and psychotherapist, I am skilled in supporting clients to gain insight into their "private logic", our view of life usually formed at an early age as a result of what we have experienced as young ones. These experiences shape us, sometimes for the best, but sometimes leaving us with fear, a sense of isolation, shame, uncertainty, poor self-image and mistaken notions of how we need to be in the world.

Through the exploration of early recollections, family atmosphere, birth order and parenting styles, we can make sense of how you have become you and get to a place of clarity, self-belief, pride in identity and increased confidence.....encouragement and strength-building also being key features of Adlerian therapy.

The number of sessions required depends on many things. Some clients feel a real improvement within 10 sessions, whilst for others lifelong struggles are likely to need longer-term support. I will never encourage a client to stay in therapy for longer than we both feel is necessary. Often, a client and I will arrange a tapering-off in frequency of sessions as we work towards our ending.

It's worth bearing in mind that what you initially bring to therapy may not prove to be the thing we end up talking about! Humanity is complicated and many of the issues below will arise, and have arisen, for the same client:

* Relationships - within the family and outside the family
* Understanding generational dynamics - attitudes, adverse experiences and ways of being which may affect several generations of the same family. Do you have the feeling you might be the change-maker?
* Parental resentment
* Attachment - understanding today's difficulties in the light of yesterday's childhood uncertainty
* Anxiety - finding the root cause
* Autism - what it means for you, coming to terms, building pride, confidence and assertiveness
* Feeling "less than"
* Functional Neurological Disorder / psychogenic non-epileptic seizures / dissociative seizures - working out if there are links with life experiences
* Bereavement
* Recovering from narcissistic relationships - partners or parents
* Understanding immature parenting
* Fall-out from separation
* Understanding enmeshed / controlling families
* Being the different one
* Feeling alone
* Exploring pleasing behaviours
* Polyamory 
* Over-spending
* Setting healthy boundaries
* Reclaiming confidence after poor treatment
* Addiction - understanding what happened and moving away from shame
* Never feeling heard....

.....and many more.


Please feel assured that I will meet you with compassion, empathy and, most importantly, humility in the face of all you have lived through.

Most common issues I support people with:

Understanding self in terms of the impact of relationships within and outside families, including recovery from narcissistic relationships, understanding immature/poor parenting, generational patterns, adverse childhood experiences, neglect, attachment issues, enmeshed and controlling families

Anxiety - finding the causes

Autism - understanding and acceptance of self, building confidence and pride 

Functional Neurological Disorder / psychogenic non-epileptic seizures / dissociative seizures 

Boundaries

Fees

£50 per hourly session over Zoom, WhatsApp or audio phonecall, to include a few minutes at the end of each session for booking the next. Arrangements for payment are set out in my contract, which is emailed or posted once a first session has been arranged.

Availability (Opening hours)

Monday	-
Tuesday	Morning, afternoon, evening - check availability with me
Wednesday	Morning, afternoon, evening - check availability with me
Thursday	Morning, afternoon, evening - check availability with me
Friday	-
Saturday	-
Sunday	-