Rachael Thomas - UKCP reg. Core Process Psychotherapist

About me

I am an experienced psychotherapist offering a warm, accepting and down to earth approach to support people  through life's difficulties and challenges.

Psychotherapy can help to develop a greater awareness of our life difficulties and struggles, our feelings, our relationships, our patterns of behaviour and also how past experiences and relationships have shaped who we are today. When this is done within a therapeutic relationship that is supportive and compassionate, we have the potential to understand ourselves better,  work through painful feelings, let go of patterns of behaviour that no longer serve us and create the possibility of healing and change. In doing so, we can  reclaim more of the happiness, wisdom, creativity and well-being that underlies all of our difficulties.

I have supported people (age 16 plus) to work through many different issues including anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and sexual difficulties, issues with self esteem, grief and loss,  personal and spiritual crisis, eating disorders, parenting issues and post-natal depression.

I also offer Eco-therapy, a form of therapy that involves working outside in nature - please see my website for more details.

I currently teach on the MA Mindfulness - Based Core Process Psychotherapy training at the Karuna Institute, Devon. I am also the Lead Counsellor within a local Art College counselling service, working mainly witih young adults. Past work includes running creative therapeutic groups for women with post-natal depression within Children's Centres.