~ Queensland Counselling Association
~ Bachelor of Arts
~ Graduate Diploma in Psychology
~ BBehavSc (Hons Psychology)
~ Master of Counselling & Psychotherapy
Rachel believes that people sometimes get stuck and have difficulty moving forward in their lives, and that being in an empathetic counselling relationship can allow them to access their own inner strengths and solutions.
Rachel has done specialist relationship therapy training, and uses the principles of Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT). Rachel is also interested in depression, anxiety, parenting issues, spirituality, learning disabilities, couple and family relationships, grief and loss, and clients who are/have someone going through medical crises. Rachel works within a Christian framework and uses a range of therapies and techniques to assist clients to grow and change, including Dynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-Centred Therapy and Positive Psychology and Mindfulness.
Rachel considers that each client comes with their own individual therapeutic needs, and so she adapts therapy in response to those needs. Rachel works with individual adults and couples.
Psychotherapy There is sometimes a little bit of a difference between how a psychologist and a psychotherapist works with you to resolve the issues that you bring to therapy. Generally, when you see a psychologist, you will focus on a particular current issue, and work together to find some great strategies that will help relieve you of current symptoms and allow you to move on with your life.
Psychotherapists will do that too, but often, the focus will be not only on your current issues, but also on how your present has been shaped by your past. There is the idea that your ways of ‘being’, which have developed over the years, will be impacting you now. A goal of psychotherapy is that you reach a consciousness and understanding of those patterns in your life, and to perhaps find ways of accepting, or changing any unhelpful patterns. Sometimes you have obvious reasons to be feeling down, but other times you may have periods of depression, or anxiety, or are puzzled at why you seem to have unhappy experiences that are repeated- psychotherapy is often helpful in unravelling these types of things.
A focus of the current model of psychology is to assist you to find some really good ways of dealing with your current issues within an allocated number of sessions. On the other hand, because psychotherapy works more on understanding long-term patterns in your life, the length of treatment will vary, depending on individual needs. |
