Rachel Whitehead

Rachel Whitehead is a highly skilled counsellor with over 25 years of experience working closely with people navigating life’s challenges, traumas and major transitions to achieve true growth and lasting change. She works with children, adolescents and adults from every walk of life, across a broad range of emotional, personal and relationship concerns. Registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Rachel is a highly educated, deeply compassionate, insightful and effective therapist, with a lifelong passion for helping others.

Rachel understands that going to a counsellor for the first time can feel nerve-wracking and immediately puts her clients at ease with her warmth, care and capacity to understand each person’s unique ‘world’ and circumstances. She creates a highly supportive space where clients can openly share and explore their thoughts, emotions, patterns and life experiences with a trusted guide. Rachel is an extremely effective therapist, helping others to gain greater self-awareness and self-appreciation, and to develop the courage and skills required to navigate life. Rachel believes that counselling is not simply about managing difficulties but about helping people to develop a deeper relationship to themselves – and from that place create meaningful, positive, lasting change.

Rachel draws on a wealth of solid, evidence-based therapies and her approach is person-centred, trauma-informed and strengths-based. She believes that positive change is possible for everyone and is deeply invested in supporting her clients to grow, reconnect and enjoy life — because that is what it’s all about.

• Master of Counselling
• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registered practitioner
• Bachelor of Occupational Therapy