About Rebecca

Over the years, I have become increasingly interested in what happens when someone's experience does not fit neatly into one explanation.

A person may arrive feeling anxious, exhausted, overwhelmed, disconnected or simply unlike themselves. They may have tried therapy before, understood many of their patterns and developed useful ways of coping yet still feel that something important has not quite been accounted for.

Sometimes the missing piece is psychological.

Sometimes it is physiological.

Sometimes it sits within the person's relationships, work, health, responsibilities or environment and often, several of these things are interacting at once.

This is particularly important when experiences such as trauma, grief, neurodivergence, menopause, persistent pain, disrupted sleep, chronic stress or significant life change overlap. What looks like a psychological difficulty may also involve changes in capacity, nervous-system responses, physical health and the demands being placed upon the person.

The same principle applies within organisations.

An individual may appear to be struggling with resilience or coping, while the wider picture includes sustained workload, occupational exposure, cultural expectations, leadership pressures, organisational change or a system operating under considerable strain.

Context changes what we understand.

My role is not to assume that every difficulty has a psychological explanation. It is to remain curious about the different influences that may be contributing, understand how they interact and recognise when another professional perspective may also be needed.

For me, good psychological work begins there: not with trying to fit the person into a model, but with developing a sufficiently broad understanding of the person in front of me.