Dr Rachel Brown
About Rachel
Clinical Psychologist and Co-founder of Lingmell Psychology | Adults & Organisations
If you’re in a role where others rely on you, particularly if you are a helping professional, you may sometimes feel overwhelmed, depleted or disconnected from your own needs. You might be carrying the impact of your own past experiences, or the emotional weight of the people you support.
Dr Rachel Brown is a Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of Lingmell Psychology. She works with individuals, organisations and communities responding to trauma, bridging Clinical Psychology with Community and Eco-Psychology to support sustainable, values-led change. Her aim is to help people feel safe, connected and resourced, so they can move forward with a deeper sense of awareness, meaning and belonging.
BA, PGCert, DClinPsy (University of Hertfordshire, 2013) | HCPC-registered: PYL30326
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Experience
Rachel has over 23 years’ experience in health and social care across statutory and voluntary sector organisations. She spent 10 years working in health and social care services before qualifying as a Clinical Psychologist in 2013, and has 13 years’ experience as a qualified Clinical Psychologist. She has held leadership, consultancy, supervision and training roles across the NHS and the third sector, in health, education, housing and homelessness, and environmental settings, and has led the development and delivery of psychologically informed, trauma-aware strategies across a wide range of organisations.
She has additional training in Nature-Based Facilitation, Supervision, Trauma-Informed Leadership, and Internal Family Systems for Social Change. All her work is neuroaffirming and trauma informed.
Who Rachel works with
Rachel works one-to-one offering therapy to adults, particularly people who work as helping professionals and those in trauma-exposed roles. She also works with teams and organisations through consultancy, supervision, reflective practice and training.
Sessions are available face to face in Bristol and online, at times that fit around your routines and commitments.
Areas of specialism
For organisations and professionals
- Trauma-informed organisational strategy
- Reflective practice facilitation
- Clinical supervision and consultancy
- Staff support in trauma-exposed roles
- Training for professionals and teams
For individuals
- Trauma
- Anxiety and depression
- Overwhelm
- Burnout and the emotional impact of helping roles
- Coping skills and emotional regulation
Rachel's approach
Rachel offers a trauma-focused, integrative approach, drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Compassion-Based Therapy. Together you’ll explore both your inner world and the wider context of your life: the environments, relationships and pressures that shape your experience. She chooses the approach that best fits your needs, guided by what feels right for you, the evidence base and her experience.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Compassion-based therapy
- Eco-Psychology and nature-based approaches
- Trauma-focused therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-based and relational therapy
- Emotionally focused therapy
- Narrative therapy
- Somatic approaches
- Humanistic, feminist and culturally sensitive practice
How Rachel works
Rachel is a skilled reflective-practice facilitator. She offers containing, compassionate spaces where staff can process the impact of working in trauma-exposed roles and reflect on their interactions, responses and needs. Central to her work is helping people and systems reconnect with purpose, belonging and meaning, building capacity and sustainability through awareness, relationship and connection.
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If you spend your days holding space for others, this can be a space for you. We’ll go at your pace and make room for what you need.
