Rae Yates - Person-Centred Therapists

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

I am a qualified (Certificate) Person-Centred Supervisor offering individual online supervision to people working with LGBTQ+ people.  I am in the process of completing my 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 experience of psychological crisis and distress, trauma and abuse, sex working, and using alcohol and drugs to cope. I have trained in group facilitation skills and for 6 years have been running the ‘Westminster Unusual Beliefs Group’, a peer-led community support group for people who hear voices, and have experiences and beliefs that are distressing or others find unusual or label as paranoid.

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