Rachel Pollard Psychotherapy

Dr Rachel Pollard BA (hons), Dip. Social Work, MA. Counselling Studies, Phd

I am qualified as a psychotherapist in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and registered with the UKCP. I am also a member of the BACP.

To visit the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy website CLICK HERE.

To visit the UKCP website CLICK HERE.

To visit the BACP website CLICK HERE

I have previously worked in the Probation and Divorce Court Welfare Services. Since qualifying as a therapist, I have worked as a counsellor in a University Counselling Service and as a psychotherapist in NHS adult mental health services. I have also worked in children's counselling and in psychotherapy research.

My PhD was an investigation into some of the clinical, philosophical and ethical implications of contemporary 'dialogical' currents in psychotherapy.

Recent publications and papers include:

Dialogue and Desire, Mikhail Bakhtin and the linguistic turn in psychotherapy

Karnac Books. To visit the Karnac website CLICK HERE

Bakhtin’s concept of Outsideness and the Therapeutic Alliance
( Annual Conference for Cognitive Analytic Therapy, 2008)

Using Bakhtin’s concept of Outsideness to create and recreate the ‘lost object’
(ACAT North Conference Manchester, 2008)

Some ideological implications of the ‘Dialogical Self’: Identity and Desire in a global economy,
(International Conference of the Dialogical Self, Cambridge, 2008)

Negoiating difference and acknowledging interdependency,
(The Psychotherapist, 42, summer 2009)