About

Rachel Geary

Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours), Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Diploma of Counselling, Cert. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

Rachel is a passionate and empathetic counsellor with a special interest in working with women and children regarding issues surrounding emotional health and regulation, parenting and building quality relationships.

Rachel is also an Equine Psychotherapist who enjoys harnessing the therapeutic power of engaging with horses to enhance clients of all ages in addressing therapeutic goals regarding emotional, cognitive, behavioural, relational and spiritual issues, and improving mental health conditions.

Rachel’s counselling approach is influenced by Positive Psychology and Gestalt therapy. Positive Psychology endeavours to build human flourishing through finding personal meaning, self-esteem, personal responsibility, optimism, resilience and positive relationships. Gestalt therapy is a holistic, experiential approach to psychotherapy that is person-centred and focuses on building awareness, acceptance and integration of personal experience with the therapeutic richness of the present moment.

Rachel can help women and families adjust and feel supported during or after their pregnancy experience. She can help prepare families for parenthood and develop the skills necessary to empower, strengthen and protect quality relational connections within families during parenting.

Rachel can also assist client’s social, emotional and psychological wellbeing with the assistance of horses as co-facilitators and teachers in this process. Horses are viewed as teachers, through modelling being free from inner-critics and connected to the simplicity and power of living their authentic selves. Horses additionally provide a live relationship of emotional safety, trust with sensory, somatic and relational resources for clients to step into the work of exploring, integrating and experimenting with new ways of being and behaving in relationship. Equine therapy offers clients diverse, creative and safe therapeutic experiences where clients can explore their self-experience, experience in relationships, build self-awareness and awareness of patterns and habits that no-longer serve clients well, which can assist clients with personal healing.

Rachel recognises that no one-size-fits-all approach works and therefore strives to find what works for her clients individually; viewing them as the experts in their lives,  and seeking to help them to facilitate the changes they would like to make by utilising an array of resources and tools founded from her direct experience and training.