Blog – Rachel Kaye
A place where I write about queer-affirmative therapy and how to help anxiety, improve relationships and build confidence.
Alternative adulting milestones
When you don’t conform to conventional cis-het milestones then sometimes others (particularly parents) can keep thinking of you as a child, even when you’re a fully-fledged grown up. This feels very unfair and got me thinking what some alternative adulting...
What I wish I knew about perimenopause in my 30s – how perimenopause often first shows up as mental health symptoms
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the intertwined relationship between physical and mental health and just how inadequate a lot of information and education about our bodies is (particularly for women/afab folks). Perimenopause is an area where this comes up in...
A therapist’s thoughts on game play dynamics and repetition compulsion in The Traitors
I wasn’t going to write a blog on The Traitors, it seemed too bandwagon-y and obvious, but then I kept thinking about this particular element of the dynamics (and morals?) of the game play of the series and thought writing something might help me figure out why it...
Reclaiming exercise from diet culture and PE
New year is a lot. The ‘New Year, New You’ juggernaut springs into action on boxing day, as we’re all prompted to atone for the ‘excesses’ of Christmas (which, just the day before, we were being encouraged towards). Despite a lot of progress, diet culture and...
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I’m Rachel
I’m a therapist based in Shipley (near Bradford and Leeds). I work with people who have always felt different in some way to help them improve relationships, manage anxiety and build confidence.
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