Rachel is a Registered Psychologist and Supervisor with over a decade of experience working with eating disorders, attachment difficulties and self-harm. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Behavioural Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Science. She has also completed specialist training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Enhanced, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Rachel’s background is in both public and private mental health working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders, personality disorders and a variety of other mental health concerns. Rachel has worked as the Clinical Manager of Treatment Programs at the Butterfly Foundation for Eating Disorders where she led the therapeutic team and provided group and individual therapy to those struggling with an eating disorder and their families. She is also currently working as a Senior Project Manager at Inside Out Institute for Eating Disorders.
Rachel’s approach is individualised, holistic and collaborative. Rachel believes in creating strong therapeutic relationships and supports her clients to create a healthy relationship with food and their bodies through skill development, value-based goal-setting, role-modelling and instilling hope that full recovery is possible.
She is fully registered with the Psychologists Board of Australia as a practitioner and supervisor, is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders and sits on the Eating Disorder Steering Committee for the Northern Sydney Local Health District.