Rachel Kaye

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Hi, I’m Rachel (she/her), a counsellor and online therapist based in Shipley.

I specialise in working with LGBTQ+ clients and those who have always felt different in some way. I set up my practice to use my lived experience and training to provide high-quality, trauma-informed therapy to my community. You might not be coming to therapy to talk about your identity, but that doesn't mean you want to spend your session time educating your therapist about it.

I offer LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy that can help you

- Learn to manage anxiety so it doesn’t stop you living, working and making friends.

- Stop sabotaging your relationships through your fears of getting close or constantly asking for reassurance.

- Improve your confidence so you can feel more sure of your decisions and stop holding yourself back.

Sexual identity:

Queer

Gender identity: Female

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Unsure

Personal pronouns: She/Her

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Postgraduate Diploma - Counselling and Psychotherapy (Leeds Beckett University)

BACP member - 388130

Qualifications - Additional:

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Experience and approach:

Are you LGBTQ+ and struggling with anxiety or relationship difficulties? Worrying constantly and being your own worst critic can really hold you back from working at your best, having successful relationships or doing other things that are important to you.

I offer LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy that can help you

- Learn to manage anxiety so it doesn’t stop you living, working and making friends.

- Stop sabotaging your relationships through your fears of getting close or constantly asking for reassurance.

- Improve your confidence so you can feel more sure of your decisions and stop holding yourself back.

I create a welcoming space to explore your experiences with you and use my knowledge of attachment, how trauma impacts our nervous system and insights and hope from my lived experience, to help you find what might help you feel better. I strive to make my practice as anti-oppressive as possible, providing therapy that is queer affirmative, trauma informed and neuro-affirming. My approach comes from the perspective of being more interested in what happened to you than what’s ‘wrong’ with you.

We might be a good fit if you’ve had therapy before but didn’t see lasting change, or you’ve previously felt misunderstood in therapy that wasn’t queer-affirming and don’t want to spend your session educating your therapist. My lived experience brings understanding of how anxiety and low self-esteem can make you feel like you’re broken, and my own journey has brought me hope that change is always possible. Over the years I’ve had the privilege of working with many people to help them move through the things that have been holding them back.

My counselling draws from a range of therapy models, include Relational Psychotherapy, Attachment-informed, Compassion and polyvagal/somatic (body-focused) approaches.

I am committed to examining my own areas of privilege and am educating myself as I strive to make my practice as anti-oppressive as possible – including undertaking training on the impact of racism, neurodiversity, class and disability.

I understake regular training and CPD to keep my skills and knowledge up-to-date, with a focus on self-compassion, embodied mindfulness approaches and working with LGBTQ+/GSRD clients.

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