Rachel Schofield

Rachel is available for one-to-one and group sessions in both Peer Navigation and Arts Therapy, including NDIS-funded sessions. Her approach to therapy is person-led, and integrative, using creative expression as a therapeutic intervention, alongside mindfulness, meditation, and nature therapy principles.

Lived Experience Peer Worker

As a Peer Worker, Rachel walks alongside our clients drawing from her own mental health recovery. She compassionately supports people in navigating their mental health diagnoses and any barriers to receiving support. This could include exploring goals and preferred pathways to recovery, navigating BaMH services in an approachable way, and engaging with community resources for ongoing support and connection. Rachel also understands some of the complexities and broader challenges of neurodiversity from a lived experience perspective and approaches all people from a place of empathy, understanding, acceptance, and hope.

Arts Psychotherapist

As an Arts Psychotherapist (or Art Therapist), Rachel brings several years of experience working with a diverse range of clients, including adults and young people in both individual and group settings. Her therapeutic practice encompasses working with various mental health diagnoses including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, addiction, eating disorders, and personality disorders, alongside neurodiversity and chronic health conditions.

Rachel has also had the privilege of volunteering as an Arts Therapist in a special needs school, a higher education peer support setting, and with individuals experiencing homelessness. She has extensive experience facilitating Arts Therapy groups for adults within the local community, including parents and carers of neurodiverse young people.