Rae Yates

I work with LGBTQIA+ / GSRD (Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity in counselling and clinical supervision.

I also work with people who may find it more difficult to access counselling and therapy including people who:

• experience neurodiversity such as ASD or ADHD
• hear voices
• beliefs that are distressing or others find unusual or label as paranoid.
• in emotional or psychological crisis
• in ethical non-monogamous or poly relationships
• people labelled with cPTSD, DID, schizophrenia or a personality disorder.

I work from a non-pathologising understanding of mental health issues and emotional distress.

I am an experienced counsellor within the LGBTQIA+ / GSRD / Queer community on all the issues that come with being human. I want to ensure that LGBTQIA+ people can access private counselling and therapy knowing that they will be safe, accepted and understood and not have to explain or defend their gender, sexuality or relationship choices. I also work with people exploring and questioning their sexuality and/or gender. I worked for 2 years at East London Out Project (ELOP), a specialist LGBTQ centre offering counselling and group support in Walthamstow, East London and I am now a group supervisor within the counselling service at London Friend. 

I am a qualified Person-Centred Clinical Supervisor offering individual supervision to people working with LGBTQIA+ people. I have a Certificate and Diploma in Clinical Supervision with an Intersectional Lens.

I have 20+ years’ experience working in the mental health and homelessness sector in London. I have developed and managed psychologically and trauma informed environments, offering non-medical, Person-Centred peer support to men and women with experiences of psychological crisis and distress, trauma and abuse, sex working, and using alcohol and drugs to cope. 

I have personal lived experience of chronic fatigue and a long-term health condition.

I work online - webcam (using Zoom), phone, or email, to make my practice accessible to people who are neurodivergent or have mobility or chronic fatigue issues or live in other parts of the UK and want to have therapy from home.

Professional qualifications and memberships 

Accredited Professional Member of National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (PNCPS Accred.) Membership number: NCS18-07417

Work experience

• Volunteer Counsellor, ELOP (East London Out Project) LGBTQ Centre
• Volunteer Counselling Supervisor, London Friend (LGBTQ+)
• Service Manager, St Mungo's, London (homelessness sector)

Other memberships

• Gendered Intelligence Counsellors and Therapists Network
• Hearing Voices Network, UK
• World Conference for Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (WAPCEPC)

National Counselling  & Psychotherapy Society Code of Ethics

Training

• currently - Diploma in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy - Pink Therapy
• Certificate and Diploma in Clinical Supervision with an Intersectional Lens (multi-modality), TA East, London
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling – Person-Centred Pathway, City Lit Institute, London
• Certificate in Counselling Skills – Person Centred Approach, City Lit