Rachel Eastop

I am available Monday - Thursday 1pm - 6pm

Hello, I'm Rachel, a counselling psychotherapist with over 20 years' experience working with children, young people and adults. I offer individual therapy online for young people aged 12 and up, as well as adults, in a warm, unhurried space where you can bring whatever you're carrying.

I work integratively, drawing on attachment theory, trauma-informed practice and creative approaches, adapting to what each person needs. Clients often come to me around early life trauma and relationship issues, and I also offer parent/carer consultation sessions if you'd like support understanding, communicating with, or helping your child.

Alongside my private practice, I work as a Consultant Psychotherapist at Barnardo's and am a Clinical Supervisor and EMDR Practitioner. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based approach that helps the brain process distressing or traumatic memories so they lose their intensity and stop feeling so present in daily life. I often draw on it with clients who feel "stuck" — where talking alone hasn't quite shifted how a difficult experience is still affecting them.

If it's important for you to be sure we're a good fit, I'm happy to have a short initial conversation first. All sessions are online, making it easy to fit therapy around your life.

I'd love to hear from you.

When you get in touch, we'll start with a short, free introductory call. This gives us both a chance to talk about what's brought you to therapy and to check that we feel like a good fit, with no obligation to book anything further.

If we decide to work together, sessions are 60 minutes, usually weekly, held online via Zoom at a time that fits your life. I find a regular weekly rhythm helps build the trust and consistency that good therapeutic work needs, though this can be reviewed together as we go.

Each session is your space. I don't come with a fixed agenda — instead, I follow what feels most alive or pressing for you that week, while holding an awareness of the wider patterns and history we're working with. You can expect me to be warm, honest and attentive, and to gently challenge as well as support when that feels useful.

I ask for 48 hours' notice if you need to cancel or rearrange a session, so the time can be offered to someone else if needed.

As a Â鶹ԭ´´-accredited member, I work within their Ethical Framework, and I'm committed to ongoing supervision, training and professional development, so you can be confident you're working with someone who takes their practice seriously.

If anything about how I work raises a question for you, please just ask — I'm always happy to talk it through before we begin.

I am available Monday to Thursday 9am - 6pm

Hello, I'm Rachel, a counselling psychotherapist and Â鶹ԭ´´-accredited Clinical Supervisor since 2011, with over 20 years' experience working with children, young people and adults. I offer 1:1 and group supervision online to counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults as well as children and young people, in a warm, reflective space where you can bring your whole caseload, your doubts and your growth edges.

I work integratively, drawing on attachment theory, trauma-informed practice and creative approaches to help supervisees think more deeply about what's happening for their clients, for themselves, and between the two.

Alongside supervision, I work as a Consultant Psychotherapist at Barnardo's, am an EMDR Practitioner, and am a CPCAB Approved Trainer, directing a training centre delivering the Level 5 Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People. This keeps me closely connected to frontline practice.

Supervision works best when it feels like a good fit, so I'm happy to have a short initial conversation first. Sessions are online, making it easy to fit supervision around your practice.

I'd love to hear from you.

When you get in touch, we'll start with a short conversation to talk about your work, what you're looking for from supervision, and to check that we feel like a good fit before committing to anything.

For 1:1 supervision, sessions are 90 minutes, usually monthly, held online via Zoom at a time that fits around your practice. For group supervision, I run small groups of 3-5 supervisees, also meeting monthly, offering a space to learn from each other's cases as well as your own.

I work integratively and reflectively, rather than to a single fixed model. Sessions are shaped by what you bring — a case that's staying with you, a dilemma, a pattern you're noticing in yourself, or simply wanting space to think. I hold both the clinical and the relational: how you're working with your clients, and how the work is landing in you.

I ask for 24 hours' notice if you need to cancel or rearrange a session.

As a Â鶹ԭ´´-accredited member and qualified supervisor, I work within the Â鶹ԭ´´ Ethical Framework, and I'm committed to my own ongoing training and development, so you can be confident you're bringing your practice to someone who takes supervision seriously.

If anything about how I work raises a question for you, please just ask, I'm always happy to talk it through before we begin.

Course Dates - See Website - www.thewellbeingacademy.co.uk/diploma-course

The Wellbeing Academy is an independent, CPCAB-approved training centre based in Fife, Scotland, delivering the Level 5 Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People (4-25 years) — a bespoke course, written from scratch by centre director Rachel Eastop, a consultant psychotherapist with over 20 years' clinical experience working with children, adolescents and adults.

This course is for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and art therapists ready to specialise in working with children and young people. We teach live online in small cohorts, so every trainee gets real individual attention, discussion and feedback.

Teaching is genuinely experiential as well as academic: alongside theory, trainees work hands-on with creative and play-based interventions — sand tray, storytelling, art and symbolic work — that they can take straight into their own therapy rooms. Each module comes with a comprehensive companion e-book rather than just slides, building a real professional reference library as the course progresses.

We take training seriously: this is a CPCAB-approved qualification, assessed by portfolio, reflective journal and a written case study, with practice hours and supervision built in.

We'd love to hear from you if you're considering this next step

Applications are reviewed individually, usually including a short informal interview, so we can make sure the course is the right fit before you commit.

The course runs over 8 months: 16 training days in Friday-Saturday pairs, 7.5 hours each, 120 taught hours in total, delivered live online via Zoom. You'll need a laptop or computer rather than a phone or tablet, as sessions include breakout discussion and creative, experiential work. The next course starts Friday 4th September 2026. The 2027 intake starts 12 February 2027.

The course fee is £1,800, plus a CPCAB registration fee of £252. A £100 deposit secures your place, and the remaining balance can be paid in full or spread across monthly instalments through the course. We're happy to talk through what works for you.

Assessment is by portfolio: reflective journal, group exercises, creative interventions and a written case study, alongside 20 hours of practice hours with child/young person, 12 hours of supervision (personal therapy is recommended, although not essential).

We keep cohorts small so training stays personal, and we're always happy to answer questions before you apply.