Rachel Counselling

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I provide a warm and non-judgemental space to explore your feelings, thoughts and experiences in either my counselling room in Cheltenham or walking and talking in local parks and countryside.

If this is what heaven is like or where your soul goes, it’s not a bad place to be…..high above the clouds, being everyw...
31/12/2025

If this is what heaven is like or where your soul goes, it’s not a bad place to be…..high above the clouds, being everywhere. An amazing place to feel connected. #

Me: Hey God.God: Hello, My love. Me: Grief keeps sneaking up on me.God: That's because grief is like a ninja. Me: When w...
28/12/2025

Me: Hey God.
God: Hello, My love.

Me: Grief keeps sneaking up on me.
God: That's because grief is like a ninja.

Me: When will it leave me alone?

God: Hopefully never. To grieve means that you have loved. Grieving is one of the truest human experiences that you will ever participate in. It often arrives without warning - like a late day summer storm - obscuring the sun and drenching you in a downpour. It's a gift, isn't it?

Me: Uh, no.

God: Grab a pen and write the following four things down:

1) Grief can come and go as it pleases. You gave it a key to your house at the exact moment you gave your heart to somebody else.

2) Bereavement is the debt you must pay for having loved. There is no getting over the loss of a beloved who is now resting in the arms of endless love. Grief has no expiration date. Despite the passing of time, the phantom pain of mourning is always one memory away from returning.

3) Of all the emotions you face, grief is the by-far stickiest. It gets all over everything. Like peanut butter, grief sticks to the roof of you soul.

4) grief Is like an
afternoon thunderstorm
in late summer.

It's the storm
that's always waiting
on the edges
of your most sunny
days to roll
across the horizon
and right over you.

The ghosts of your loved
ones who have died
are the clouds.

The webbed lightning
Illuminating the
dark canvas sky is
their reminder to you
that life is just a
a brilliant temporary flash
of time.

It’s the reminder
to live now.
to be bold.
to be electric.

The pounding rain isn't your tears.

It's the hope of eternal life that falls
on you.

It's that downpour of hope that will
help you grow deep roots in love and faith.

The gale winds
of these storms are
the messages from
those you have
lost to death that
are whispering
to you through the pines
the following psalm:

"It's okay, my love. Eternity is holding me. Death isn't an end. Death is a threshold. I'm still here. I never left. Love doesn’t die. Love doesn’t die. I remain. There is no afterlife. There is only life. I’m here with you. Love doesn’t die."

Me: Okay...great...now I'm crying.

God: I'm proud of your tears of grief.

Me: You are?

God: Yes- because it’s proof that you have loved.

Me: Well, I’ve got all sorts of proof pouring down my face right now...

God: What an adventure your life is!

(From “Upon Departure”)
~ john roedel

For anyone who needs to hear this today…..you will be ok. 💙
10/12/2025

For anyone who needs to hear this today…..you will be ok. 💙

I’m sadly not able to work for a while due to a bereavement. Even though I’m not seeing my clients, my clients are not f...
06/10/2025

I’m sadly not able to work for a while due to a bereavement. Even though I’m not seeing my clients, my clients are not far from my heart. Each person I meet changes me in a different way and our therapeutic relationship is treasured by me. The relationship is everything and I look forward to returning to work when I can.

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are...
03/05/2025

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Buddha

I love the following poem. So often we can feel too much, feeling enveloped with shame trying to make ourselves smaller ...
02/03/2024

I love the following poem. So often we can feel too much, feeling enveloped with shame trying to make ourselves smaller and not known. How wonderful to exaggerate our too muchness and share this with the world. Come sit with me by Donna Ashworth

If you are too much
too emotional
too sensitive
too loud
too honest
too deep
too loving

Come sit with me

and we can pool our too-muchness
and send it up to the moon
to scatter amongst the stars
let our too-muchness
find solace in their brilliance
expand a million times more
and shower the world with that light
of too much person
for one person

if you are too much come sit with me, my friend

I like too much
you can be too much and more
with me.

The Gift. Merry Christmas ❤️
25/12/2023

The Gift. Merry Christmas ❤️

Some reminders of where to look for extra support over the Christmas period and throughout the year.
23/12/2023

Some reminders of where to look for extra support over the Christmas period and throughout the year.

Happy Winter Solstice! Through the darkness we step into the light with an open heart.
22/12/2023

Happy Winter Solstice! Through the darkness we step into the light with an open heart.

This is a reminder to anyone who feels insignificant. You matter in ways that you could not know and touched the hearts ...
20/12/2023

This is a reminder to anyone who feels insignificant. You matter in ways that you could not know and touched the hearts of many. It’s written by Donna Ashworth and it’s in her new book , Hope. .a.difference

I dash to therapy wanting the change to happen yet change happens in its own time, at its own pace. And when I look back...
13/11/2023

I dash to therapy wanting the change to happen yet change happens in its own time, at its own pace. And when I look back the change is so subtle that I haven’t noticed the change or when it happened, yet there it is, a slight adjustment. And then I breathe out and carry along not noticing the change but yet here it comes. Trust.

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Cheltenham
GL504LR

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 12pm

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+447961627500

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