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Leadership Behind Mycore Psychological Consulting
Senior psychological support, grounded in lived reality,
Rebecca Downes is the Director of Mycore Psychological Consulting Ltd, a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist and Senior Psychological Practitioner.
Since retraining in psychotherapy in 2008, Rebecca has supported individuals and organisations navigating trauma, grief, burnout, health change, neurodivergence, leadership pressure and periods when capacity no longer feels as reliable as it once did.
Her work is known for calm judgement, emotional intelligence, discretion and clear professional boundaries.
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Whether you are seeking individual psychological support, case formulation or organisational input, Mycore offers a considered starting point.
A Background in People, Pressure and Complexity
Professional background
Before moving into psychological practice, Rebecca worked in strategic HR. That experience continues to inform her understanding of leadership responsibility, workplace culture and the human impact of sustained professional pressure.
Her clinical work is also shaped by lived experience of caregiving from a young age, single parenthood, complex family relationships, bereavement, health change and periods when functioning outwardly has required a great deal internally.
Rebecca brings both professional and personal understanding of neurodiversity, including ADHD and autistic traits within family life, alongside specialist ADHD pre-screening training informed by UKAAN standards and completed through King’s College London.
She understands that people may continue to lead, care for others, work, parent and meet expectations while privately managing exhaustion, pain, uncertainty, grief, sensory or executive-function demands, or the cumulative effects of prolonged responsibility.
This informs a pace of work that is compassionate but not passive: attentive to safety, capacity, readiness and the need to avoid placing further demand on an already stretched system.
The NSCF–CTA™ Framework
Rebecca is developing the NSCF–CTA™ Framework:
Neuro-Somatic Case Formulation within a Capacity–Threat–Agency Framework.
The framework helps organise complexity by considering how biological, psychological and social-contextual influences may affect capacity, perceived threat, protective responses, flexibility and agency.
It also supports careful clinical pacing: helping identify when deeper therapeutic work may be appropriate, and when the priority is first to reduce load, strengthen safety and rebuild capacity.
When load exceeds available capacity, flexibility can narrow, protection can activate and agency can reduce.
A whole-system approach
Understanding capacity, protection and the conditions that shape recovery.
Rebecca’s work is grounded in a neuroscience-informed biopsychosocial perspective.
Rather than separating experiences into purely “medical”, “psychological” or “situational” explanations, she considers how health, sleep, pain, stress, memory, relationships, work, identity and practical circumstances may be interacting.
This approach is particularly relevant where the picture is more complex than a single symptom, diagnosis or event.
Her work may integrate psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, neurodiversity awareness, sleep and capacity work, psychophysiological regulation and practical formulation.
Senior Psychological Practitioner
Current personal development
Rebecca is currently preparing to begin a Postgraduate Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine at the University of Buckingham, extending her work across health, behaviour, prevention, capacity and whole-person care.
She is also progressing an application for senior professional accreditation, reflecting her continued commitment to clinical standards, supervision, professional development and accountable practice.
A broad clinical foundation, continuously developed
Rebecca’s practice is grounded in accredited psychotherapy training and continually developed through further education in trauma, CBT, somatic approaches, neurodiversity, critical incidents, menopause-informed care, psychophysiological regulation and lifestyle medicine.
Accredited Clinical Foundation
BACP Accredited Psychotherapist; Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy; CBT training; mindfulness-based CBT; clinical supervision and couples counselling.
Trauma, Dissociation & Complex Stress
EMDR training for adults and children; trauma, dissociation and recovery; ego-state approaches; shame and trauma; critical incident stress debriefing.
Health, Capacity and Regulation
Somatic CBT; HeartMath® Resilience Coaching; neuroscience-informed biopsychosocial formulation; menopause-informed psychological care.
Neurodiversity & Specialist Practice
UKAAN-informed adult ADHD assessment and pre-screening training through King’s College London; QbCheck facilitator training; neurodiversity-aware psychological support.
Accredited foundation. Continuing development. Thoughtful clinical practice.