Rachel Offers…
Individual Short and Long Term Therapy * Family Therapy.
Tibetan Buddhist Psychotherapy * Dream Analysis.
Couples Therapy * Group Therapy.
SERVICES
About Rachel Glasgow
Rachel is a qualified Clinical Psychotherapist and Tibetan Buddhist Psychotherapist, she is also a qualified Couples and Family Therapist and Dream Analyst.
Rachel is registered with The Institute of Clinical Psychotherapy, (ICP) and The Australian and New Zealand Association of Independent Dream Analysts (ANZAIDA).
Rachel has been in private practice over the last 21 years, previously in New Zealand and since 1994 in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia.
Prior to going in to Private Practice, Rachel worked in a Child Psychiatric Unit in New Zealand as a Child and Family Therapist, and then at Glenburn Centre, for Presbytarian Support Services, in Auckland, New Zealand as part of the Family Therapy team.
Rachel has completed a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Iowa State University, USA, and a Clinical Psychotherapy training, a Post Graduate training in Dream Analysis and a post-graduate training in Tibetan Buddhist Psychotherapy with the Institute of Clinical Psychotherapy, all training for working with the unconscious, the sacred and dreams.
Location
Rachel runs her private practice in the upper Blue Mountains. She has been providing counselling services for individuals, couples, and families in the Mountains over the last ten years.
What to expect in a consultation
Along with seeing couples and families, Rachel specializes in longer term individual, clinical psychotherapy, allowing for the gradual working through of the client’s issues, so that there is slow, steady, reliable change. “In a culture of quick fixes and short term solutions, people are often unaware of the option and the value of a long term therapeutic relationship and what that can offer them across time, and how the benefits of their investment will flow on in to their lives and the lives of those they love."
The main underlying theme in longer term therapy, is the movement towards a more natural, genuine, resourceful sense of self as an adult and undoing ideas of how one is “supposed to be” or “should be”. It is about having a more integrated sense of being an adult which means slowly mending core wounds and traumas, misunderstandings and hurts. It is about acquiring an understanding of one’s life in a bigger, more realistic and compassionate view of oneself and others as imperfect, and “good enough” human beings.”
“People get depressed and anxious for good reasons, it is a healthy response to something being wrong, something not going right and actually needing to be attended to in their lives. It is not, necessarily, a mental health or psychiatric issue, but rather an opportunity for deeper maturing emotionally, psychologically and relationally.
Having a safe, confidential therapeutic relationship is often the first, constructive experience of an interdependent relationship in which the client is focused on and where their deeper needs are attended to, this rebuilds and reestablishes a sense of self esteem and self regard essential for navigating the challenges of ordinary life and mending core wounds.
This is an extraordinarily worthwhile investment in your life and naturally one that takes time and effort.
I am constantly inspired by people’s courage in their lives while in therapy as they get to know themselves on a much deeper level. Dreams can be a very valuable part of therapy, as clients discover their own inner wisdom assisting them in the process of finding their own answers and their own way forward in their life”
Initial appointments include discussion of options for counselling and therapy and give both myself and the client a chance to get a feel for working together.
Rachel's work as a Tibetan Buddhist Psychotherapist integrates some of the foundational concepts in Tibetan Buddhism with clinical psychotherapy. Concepts such as impermanence, the truth of death, the uncertainty of the timing of death, compassion and interdependence offer a different quality of understanding compared to the usual western, Christian and medical paradigms. For some people seeking therapy, this integration is more beneficial, and you don't have to be Buddhist or become Buddhist to come in to therapy that has this context of understanding.
If you are interested in an initial appointment, please ring my private practice number: mobile 0402982301 and leave a message with a couple of suitable times when I can get back to yo u.
Important to Note:In therapy sessions with me, you will have the dignity of paying a professional fee for my services, this avoids the inequality that enters a therapeutic relationship if a client is not expected to pay or offered a reduced fee...Fees are $120 per hour long session for individuals, couples or families....the other benefit of a full fee paying therapeutic relationship is that you are guaranteed full confidentiality, which is not possible through the allied health system where report s are required to be written by your therapist to your GP about your counselling on a regular basis. In order for real therapy to occur certain conditions are necessary, such as paying a professional fee to reflect equality, and absolute confidentiality where no third party is involved in the therapeutic relationship. These conditions are not possible through the current mental health initiatives offering reduced costs of therapy, and yet these understandings are not generally made clear to potential seekers of good, quality therapy.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
- Psychotherapy, Dream Analysis, Tibetan Buddhist Psychotherapy - Institute of Clinical Psychotherapy - Australia.
- MSc Marriage and Family Therapy - Iowa State University, USA
- BHSc, Education, Otago University, NZ.
Counselling, Psychotherapy
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