Rachel Nguyen-Thi

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BA (Hons), MBACP
Nottingham NG1 & Bristol BS8

About us

Life takes us through changing landscapes. Whether you're navigating overwhelming anxiety, persistent depression, relational stuckness, or the heavy weight of trauma, you don't have to travel alone.

The most important thing to me is our relationship.

I provide a compassionate therapeutic space where you can safely untangle complex emotional patterns and move forward with renewed clarity, skills and hope. 

Healing isn't a straight path, but I'm here to walk beside you as you find your way home to yourself. 

There are no prerequisites to the right to invest in your journey, to move towards an authentic and joyful life.

Are you ready to take the next step in your healing journey?

My Approach: 

My therapeutic approach is humanistic, relational, embodied, trauma-informed and culturally sensitive. I put our relationship and your emotional safety at the centre of my care.

Many of our woundings occur in relationships. Therefore, relational healing and repair happens in connection - not in isolation. I won't be a blank, neutral slate nodding silently at you. I'm a companion on your journey, I bring my full, engaged human self into the room: warm, curious, gently challenging, and deeply present. In our work together, you’ll have agency and choice. We’ll go at your pace, guided by what feels safe and meaningful for you.

We live in a world that places constant pressure on us: to perform, to please, to hold it all together. With me, you'll be offered a space to be with your experience, just as it is, and exploring what healing and growth might look like for you. 

Therapy can make space for your truth to emerge without judgement. You deserve that space and time

Together, we'll explore the formative chapters of your story and explore the layers of your experience, cultural, familial, and systemic, that shaped who you are today and begin writing new ones filled with self-compassion, empowerment, and meaningful growth.

Training, qualifications & experience

  • 1st Class Degree (Ba) Hons Humanistic Counselling Practice.
  • Introduction to Counselling Certificate, 2009
  • Nearly 10 years experience across private practice, educational institutes and community settings
  • Accredited Registrant Member of the National Counselling Society
  • I adhere to their ethical standards and am on a Register that has been accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

(membership number: NCS23-00349)

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Registered / Accredited

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NCPS
National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

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Areas of counselling we deal with

Other areas of counselling we deal with

Cultural identity
Parentification & enmeshment
Co-dependancy

Fees

£75.00 - £105.00

Additional information

  • Free initial discovery call - 20mins
  • Sessions are weekly for 50mins
  • I invite all clients to self-select a fee within the indicated range.
  • I also accept Aviva Health Insurance

Further information

Recent Additional Trainings:

  • Trauma Treatment Certification, PESI 2025 - Treating trauma 
  • Working with Inherent Relational Complications - PESI 2020 
  • Healing the Fragmented Self After Trauma - Janina Fisher, 2021
  • Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) - PESI 2019
  • Expanded Living - Somatic Experiencing. Still Point, London 2017
  • Working with Survivors of Sexual Violence, City Literary Institute, 2015
  • Person-Centred Approaches to Trauma, Critical Incidents and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Online Events, 2012

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1

Bristol, City of Bristol, BS8

Type of session

Online
Rachel Nguyen-Thi
Rachel Nguyen-Thi