Rachel Neil

Life can be hard, lonely, feel cruel or empty. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or stuck. Therapy can ease your suffering, enable release and grant insight. It can help you cope more easily and move forward.

I can offer you a safe, caring space to be heard and will explore with you, without judgement, the things that feel difficult for you. 

I am an experienced, professionally qualified counsellor and my approach is integrative-relational, which means I draw on different theoretical models to support my work.

I believe past events and relationships impact you; they influence how you view yourself and others and can cause destructive thoughts and patterns of behaviour. I also believe that the relationship between you and your therapist is fundamental to enable change.

A warm, respectful, trusting relationship will help you to feel safe enough to examine painful, difficult issues. It is a relationship that can enable you to expand your awareness, gain greater insight into yourself and your relationship with others and find new ways forward.

I work in private practice and my consulting room is in Kew, minutes from Kew Gardens station.

I have experience working in an NHS environment, I also worked for the counselling team of a local authority, I was an associate counsellor at a leading London university and until recently I worked as a volunteer counsellor for the charity Mind.

I have worked with clients with a wide variety of issues including anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, bereavement, low self-esteem, divorce, sexual abuse, domestic abuse, neglect and gender dysphoria.

I have experience of working with adults of all ages, ethnicities and sexual orientations. I welcome working with clients age 18 + irrespective of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, cultural/religious background or nationality.

I understand how daunting it may feel to start therapy and the choice of therapist is an important one, so I offer a no-commitment initial consultation for you to get a sense of me and decide whether my way of working feels right for you.