• Post-traumatic stress
• Moral injury/distress
• Occupational trauma
• Major and healthcare trauma
• Conflict/war/military trauma
• Forensic trauma
• Trauma-informed teaching and training

• Post-traumatic stress
• Moral injury/distress
• Occupational trauma
• Major and healthcare trauma
• Conflict/war/military trauma
• Forensic trauma
• Trauma-informed teaching and training

Rachel is a Senior Lecturer on the Forensic Psychology Team at Bath, as Deputy Director of Studies on the MSc in Forensic Psychology with Placement and working on the development of further training programmes in Forensic Psychology. She is also an appointed Committee Member of the Division of Forensic Psychology, British Psychological Society. 

Clinical work

Rachel is an HCPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist, BABCP Accredited CBT Practitioner and is also trained in systemic, EMDR, CFT and ACT approaches. She most commonly works clinically with psychological trauma, including interaction with other difficulties such as mental and physical co-morbidity.

Rachel has been working clinically primarily with acute hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, families and staff and military veterans with highly complex health, mental health and social needs. She also has experience providing psychological assessments and interventions to other specialist populations exposed to trauma (e.g. first responders, healthcare staff, government agency staff, and students). She is an experienced research and clinical supervisor of psychological therapists, practitioner psychologists and trainees working across health, mental health and forensic settings. 

Background

Rachel was the Director of Studies and Academic Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Bath and Clinical Psychologist at the Royal United Hospitals, Bath Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Prior to this she was Clinical Psychologist for the NHS South West Veterans' Mental Health Services, working alongside the charity Help for Heroes.

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)). She has authored book chapters e.g. Dealing with Anxiety and Low Mood for nurses and midwives, Chronic Pain in Ex-Military Personel, and the book An Illustrated Guide to Clinical Psychology.

Pedagogical research and improvement

Rachel is Co-Chair of the Trauma Informed Approaches to Higher Education (TIA-HE) Network Steering Group and is using her work in the field of psychological trauma to better understand, research and drive meaningful and evidence-based improvements. 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