97. Rachel-Rose Burrell. Racism in Mental Health Work.

Rachel-Rose Burrell is a qualified and accredited counsellor/psychotherapist with a broad range of experience designing and delivering mental health awareness, counselling skills, stress management, and personal and professional development training programmes on a local, national and international level.  She is Therapy Manager at the Democratic Therapeutic Community at HMP Send, the only DTC for women prisoners in europe and possibly the world.

 

Dr Burrell has many years’ experience and a track record of developing counselling services within education, the voluntary sector and churches. She is a member of the leadership team at her local church and developed and leads an inclusive and wholistic well-being service, as a psychotherapist she is driven to empower leaders and people in general to experience life to their full potential. 

 

Dr Burrell has completed a research study investigating how faith and a church community impact mental health and well-being particularly within Black Majority churches in the UK. The products and resources are products of that research with a view to inform, educate and equip readers.