Rachel Kaye
About the Therapist
Hi, I’m Rachel (she/her), a counsellor and online therapist based in Shipley. I mainly work with LGBTQ+ clients and those who feel like their identity and experiences might mean other therapists don’t get them.
I will explore your experiences with you and use my knowledge of attachment, self-compassion and trauma-informed polyvagal theory to help you better know, understand and accept yourself.Â
Working with me can help you
- Process your feelings so you don’t get so overwhelmed and stay more connected to yourself and others
- Overcome your challenges and difficult past experiences so you can feel comfortable, live a more fulfilling life and bring your genuine self to the world
- Improve your relationships, set boundaries and stand up for yourself and what you need
- Better know, understand and accept yourself
- Recognise and use your existing strengths and to create new and more effective ways to navigate your life
We might be a good fit if:
- You value a compassionate approach, which can also be gently challenging
- You want a down-to-earth therapist, who will be real with you and answer any questions you might have. You don’t like long silences or cold, clinical therapists.
- Your identity and experiences make you worry that most therapists out there wouldn’t get you. This may not be the reason you’re coming to therapy, but you don’t want to have to spend your session time educating your therapist about it.
- You would like a therapist who is more interested in what happened to you than what’s wrong with you.
- You are ready to try something new and are aware that therapy can take work and time.
- Queer
Postgraduate Diploma - Counselling and Psychotherapy (Leeds Beckett University)
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I create a welcoming space to explore your experiences with you and use my knowledge of attachment, self-compassion and trauma-informed polyvagal theory, along with insights and hope from my lived experience, to help you better know, understand and accept yourself.Â
Together, we will explore patterns in your relationships, how your past might be affecting your present and what to do about it.  Working relationally means I’ll be keeping an eye on how your patterns might play out in the therapy room and looking out for opportunities for us to practice doing things differently, so you can grow the confidence to make the changes you want in the real world.Â
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.
Alongside my work in private practice, I currently work with Yorkshire MESMAC, one of the oldest and largest sexual health organisations in the country.
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.
- Attachment theory (Psychodynamic)
- Body psychotherapy
- Compassion-focused therapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Feminist therapy
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Relational
- Ace | Asexual
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Trans
- One to one
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Young adults (16-24)
- Online
£55 full, £50 students/those receiving benefits/on low income.
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