Rachel is a thoughtful and compassionate clinician who has been working for 15 years with parents, couples, families and babies in and outside the NHS. Most recently Rachel has worked as Consultant Clinical Psychologist for a large specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service in the NHS, working with mums with complex needs and diagnoses.

Experienced across the breadth of issues that can arise for people in the perinatal period, Rachel has a special interest in working with:

• parents whose past experiences mean that pregnancy, childbirth and parenting can feel anxiety-provoking, stressful or distressing
• women and birthing people after traumatic birth, including consideration of, and through subsequent pregnancies
• the changes that parenthood brings to couple and family relationships
• the relationship between parents and their babies, particularly after traumatic birth- sometimes referred to as attachment or bonding issues
• distress associated with pregnancy loss, particularly termination of pregnancy

As a clinical psychologist, Rachel is trained in several therapeutic modalities (CBT, EMDR etc). She has an MSc which specialised in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, as well as Mentalisation-Based Therapy training, and has completed specialist parent-infant work training.

Rachel places the trust and safety of the therapeutic relationship right at the heart of therapy.

Her practice centres around acknowledging both the wonders and the challenges of infancy, of pregnancy and parenting, and how they impact and shape our lives, sometimes in ways we haven’t realised. She has found that thinking these through in a safe, supportive environment helps empower parents, giving them newfound choice and agency- and crucially the opportunity to feel lightness and joy pregnancy, birth, parenthood and beyond.

She is based in Glasgow where she works online and in-person and is registered with the HCPC.