Personal profile

Research interests

  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Moral injury/distress
  • Occupational trauma
  • Major and healthcare-related trauma, including Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stays
  • Conflict/war/military-related trauma
  • Leadership and traumatic experiences
  • Trauma-informed teaching and training

Teaching interests

  • Post-traumatic stress
  • Moral injury/distress
  • Occupational trauma
  • Major and healthcare-related trauma, including Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stays
  • Conflict/war/military-related trauma
  • Leadership and traumatic experiences
  • Trauma-informed teaching and training

Other responsibilities

Clinical work

Rachel is an HCPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist, BABCP Accredited CBT Practitioner and trained in systemic and EMDR therapy.

Rachel has spent substantial time working with military veterans with highly complex health, mental health and social needs across a range of settings. She has experience providing psychological assessments and interventions to other specialist populations exposed to trauma (e.g. in-patient groups, first responders, healthcare staff, government agency staff, and students).

Rachel provides clinical supervision to psychological therapists, practitioner psychologists and trainees working across a range of settings (e.g., health, mental health and forensic) and primarily now works clinically in an acute intensive care unit (ICU) with patients, families and staff, and on wider responses to critical and major incidents.

Background

Rachel has previously led and/or managed national projects and programmes including, national clinical audits in mental health (National Clinical Audits | Royal College of Psychiatrists (rcpsych.ac.uk)); NHS patient safety incident reporting and response and other quality and service improvement initiatives. She authored the Royal College of Psychiatrists' original e-learning module on Patient Safety in Mental Health (Quality improvement module 4: Patient safety in mental health (rcpsych.ac.uk)). 

Pedagogical research and improvement

Rachel is using her work in the field of psychological trauma to understand and drive improvements in pedagogical practice in higher education. Her work aims to better enable those with trauma experiences to strive to thrive in higher education, and guide the higher education community and systems to better facilitate this.

https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/trauma-informed-pedagogy-in-higher-education

Other roles

Clinical Psychologist, Intensive Care Unit, Royal United Hospitals, Bath

Author, e.g. An Illustrated Guide to Clinical Psychology | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK (jkp.com)

Steering committee member for the Scar Free Foundation Centre for Conflict Wound Research project 'Understanding the Needs and Interventions for the Treatment of Scarring', being undertaken at the University of the West of England by the Centre for Appearance Research. 

One of 30 'future research leaders' brought together in the GW4 Crucible 2022 to collaboratively explore 'Building back better: Interdisciplinary approaches to mental health wellbeing research'.

Advance HE's Aurora 2022 women in higher education leadership development programme participant. 

External examiner and peer reviewer.

Roles on the Bath DClinPsy

  • Academic Director
  • Director of Studies
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Clinical Tutor
  • Research Supervisor
  • Lead for BABCP Accreditation in CBT (previous)
  • Convenor for the final year Specialist and Advanced Psychology (including health and forensic) Unit (previous)
  • Lead for Practitioner Psychologist Supervisor Training and CPD (previous)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Psychological Research Methods, Master in Science, Birkbeck, University of London

Clinical Psychology, Doctor of Clinical Psychology, University of Bath

Psychology, Bachelor of Science, University of Surrey

External positions

External Examiner, Cardiff University

Author: Patient Safety in Mental Health e-Learning Module, Royal College of Psychiatrists

External Examiner, University of Exeter

External Lecturer, University of Exeter

External Examiner, University of Oxford

Keywords

  • Trauma
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Complex PTSD
  • Military
  • Veteran
  • Patient Safety
  • ICU
  • Intensive Care
  • TRiM
  • Military Culture
  • Moral Injury
  • Moral Distress
  • Staff Support
  • PTSD
  • CPTSD
  • Healthcare
  • ITU
  • Pedagogy
  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
  • Higher Education

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