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Rae Yates
- Location: Worthing, West Sussex, BN12
- Offers online appointments: Yes
- Gender: Queer /Non-binary
- Ethnicity: British - white
- Sexuality: Queer
- Registration number: NCS NCS18-07417
- False Under Sixteen
- False Sixteen to Eighteen
- True Over Eighteen
- False Families
Practice description
I am an LGBTQ+/GSRD Person-Centred Counsellor and Supervisor. I am an Advanced Accredited ‘Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversities’ Therapist (Pink Therapy), and an Accredited Professional Member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). I offer long or short term, individual counselling online and in person in Worthing, West Sussex.
I am Queer Non Binary and use They/Them pronouns. I am neurodivergent and live with chronic health issues.
I work in Private Practice and at London Friend with individual adults (18+) who are queer, ,gay, bisexual, asexual, trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, agender, intersex, or cis / het and in some way questioning and trying to understand issues around their sexuality or gender. I work with people with all kinds of issues and concerns and in differing levels of distress. I am committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming, safe enough space where you can talk about anything you want to.
I work from a non-pathologising understanding of mental health issues and emotional distress, I will ask you what’s happened to you rather than try to find out what’s wrong with you. I also work with people who may find it more difficult to access counselling and therapy including people who:
- are neurodivergent such as ASD, ADHD, dyslexia
- hear voices, experience dissociation / DID, or have beliefs and experiences that others find unusual
- are in emotional or psychological crisis
- are in consensual non-monogamous or poly relationships
- people labelled with PTSD, schizophrenia or a personality disorder.
Therapy qualifications
Diploma in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy (GSRDT) – Pink Therapy, 2025
I am an Advanced Accredited ‘Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversities’ Therapist (Pink Therapy)
Member of TACTT – Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia
Other therapy skills
Mental Health trainer , Person-Centred Encounter Group facilitator
General skills
20+ years mental health/ homelessness work, experience in trauma, abuse and peer-support, unusual beliefs group facilitator