Rachel holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Liverpool and is a Chartered Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and a practitioner psychologist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

For the last 20 years, Rachel has been dedicated to improving the psychological well-being of others, providing a range of psychological assessment and treatment services within the NHS and private sector. Prior to becoming fully independent, she was the Clinical Manager for an NHS Primary Care Psychological Therapies service of around fifty staff in Merseyside, ultimately responsible for the safety and effectiveness of therapy provided.

Clinically, she has significant experience in working with people with the full range of difficulties, including anxiety and depression based-problems, adjustment to substantial changes in life, obsessive-compulsive problems, substance misuse, self-esteem, relationship problems and body image difficulties.

Rachel has particular expertise in treating trauma-related disorders, such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, especially in people who have sustained personal injury and psychological trauma in the workplace. Rachel is an Accredited Practitioner with EMDR Association of UK and Ireland. EMDR is a recognised, highly-effective psychological therapy for trauma, PTSD and increasingly, other anxiety-based problems. Since establishing her independent practice in 2007, Rachel has helped hundreds of people to overcome debilitating fear, to regain their confidence and to return to a fulfilling work and home-life.

Rachel is an accredited practitioner of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), approaches which are proved to minimise the psychological impact of critical, traumatic events involving groups of people, and to reduce the negative operational and economic consequences for the organisation concerned.

Whilst building her own career in Clinical Psychology, Rachel supported her husband, Andrew, in his own career at sea and subsequently in the maritime industries ashore. She understands, through her own experience, some of the challenges of being at home, whilst a loved one is away, often for many months at a time, sometimes in politically sensitive areas of the world, with only fleeting contact possible. Rachel spent time on-board with Andrew during some of his trips on oil-tankers and light-house tenders. She has witnessed the psychological strengths and qualities that are important in sea-farers and the communities they forge as a crew, whilst they work in safety-critical environments, for often lengthy periods of time away from home. 

Rachel has attended the excellent “At The Sharp End”  course on merchant shipping and operations, organised by maritime consultants, Brookes Bell.  Rachel supports the work of the Liverpool Seafarer’s Centre, welcoming and assisting the visiting international seafaring community.

Rachel combines first-hand experience and insight into the shipping industry with a strong track record in providing the best care for each of her clients, as individuals, groups and organisations. Rachel has a strong commitment to providing  effective, sensitive and non-stigmatising interventions, steering clients towards recovery from traumatic circumstances, meaningful change and resilience to on-going and future challenges.

She is delighted to be able to collaborate with Andrew Glynn-Williams, combining their wealth of individual experience and qualification, to offer expert psychological services to the maritime industries, at sea, on-shore and to those supporting sea-farers at home.