Rachel Rooks

I have availability - please get in touch for times/dates available

I’ve been a counsellor for over 18 years and worked in mental health for 15. I support people facing many different challenges, from everyday life experiences, anxiety and stress, through to relationship difficulties, loss and mental ill health.

​My hope is to create a safe, supportive & private environment where you can explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and develop new coping skills to navigate life's ups and downs.

I offer a range of different ways to access therapy and be inclusive to as many people as I can be.

We all want to know that we matter, we want to know that we are heard and that what we have to say means something.

Face to face - â€‹Sessions are held in a safe and comfortable therapy room which will help you to feel more at ease and open to sharing thoughts and feelings.

Walk & Talk - These sessions are held in Southend and the surrounding area​s. This approach involves you and I taking a walk on a carefully selected and safe route instead of sitting in the traditional therapy room. You may have tried face to face therapy and found it didn't work for you? It's not uncommon to struggle with finding the right words to say in therapy, and walking side by side without the pressure of making eye contact can be helpful for some individuals.

Online/video calls -  These remote sessions offer convenience, flexibility and accessibility for all, and it offers the same level of support and confidentiality as traditional, in the therapy room, sessions.  It allows you to access support from the comfort of their own home or wherever you may be.

Our first contact will be a free 15 minute phone call, where we can discuss what your needs and goals for counselling are, and what I can offer.

If we both agree that we would like to work together, we can establish when and where our first session will be. Each session thereafter will cost £55 and is 50 minutes.

During that first session we will complete an assessment, and continue onto further sessions if agreed by both.