Rah Rivers

Hello, my name is Rah (Rebekah) and I see clients in Dartington, Totnes or online. Whatever you are experiencing, if you are looking for support, I’d like to encourage you and I hope this invitation might help.

My experience is that exploring together therapeutically can be a creative, relieving and freeing process. I’d like to help you to discover more choice in how you respond to situations and more room for movement in those places where you get stuck. Even when life feels difficult, our meeting together can be a nourishing experience so that more becomes possible.

A little about my approach
I like to accompany people by giving attention to what most wants expression right now and noticing what happens as we do this. I can help you to listen more closely and with kindness to your experience, because possibilities open up from here. I find this is best supported by paying attention to present experience, including what is naturally being expressed through the body. I trust this is more fruitful and informative than working hard to try to figure things out. It gets below the rounds of thinking you have probably got caught in if you’re struggling.

Together we can better understand your particular ways of responding or trying to cope, which may be limiting and causing pain, both for yourself and those around you. We can bring awareness to more of your experience, to recognise and respect even contrasting parts within yourself, or aspects that have been too difficult to so far include. I would like to support you to feel closer to yourself, more resourced and steady, and able to connect in ways which are more deeply satisfying.

My influences
My meeting with people is inspired and greatly resourced by a few key influences. These are Hakomi (a mindfulness-based, somatic psychotherapy), Focusing and Zen practice. Each of these support bringing attention to present, embodied experience, to listen inwardly, with respect and receptivity.

Hakomi and Focusing both recognise the clarity that we can all find within our own experiencing. Both see the practitioner as someone who accompanies you closely to find this connection with yourself and to follow it.

Hakomi is a creative way of exploring what is already naturally being expressed, beyond the words we use, which is often outside of awareness and not attended to. When we listen to the body, we have ready access to better understand what we are doing that limits possibilities. Once we become aware of what we do habitually, then we open the way to more choice in how we respond to life and more satisfying experiences and connections.

A note about meeting online
I am confident that meeting online offers an effective alternative to in-person sessions, where it is really possible to develop a good connection. I hadn’t imagined this before the covid situation, but I am greatly encouraged. For some people it is preferable and more convenient. If you’re not sure it’s for you, why not try a free introductory session to get a feel for what might be possible.

Interested to find out more in a free session?
Whatever you are experiencing, if you are interested to make contact, I would like to hear from you. We can arrange an initial free meeting to explore how it might feel to work together, after which you can take your time to decide if you’d like to give it a try.

I aim to meet you in your experience of being alive, whatever that includes.

I offer a free introductory session for 30 minutes.
After that the cost is £55 for a one hour session.
I hold some concessionary places for people who are unable to meet the full cost.