Specialisms
Chronic Pain, Women’s Health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Qualifications
- BSc Psychology
- MSc Health Psychology (University of Westminster)
- MSc Human Resources
- Yoga Therapy Diploma – Yoga Biomedical Trust
- Structural Therapeutic Yoga (Yoga and Ayurveda)
- Yoga for Depression and Anxiety (The Minded Institute)
- Yoga for Trauma (Boston Trauma Center)
About
Raquel works as a Chronic Pain Clinical Specialist at Pain Management Solutions, where she uses her broad-based skill set to work with patients and a multi-disciplinary team of specialists to provide effective care according to best practice and NHS guidelines. She finds her education and personal practice in yoga and mindfulness extremely useful in combination with her background in psychology in her work with chronic pain clients. Raquel has also worked as an honorary assistant psychologist with CAMHS NHS Islington, London.
She is interested in working towards the prevention of health conditions as well as helping people to develop an active role in the management of their conditions, in order to restore a sense of physical and psychological well-being.
Running alongside her academic education Raquel has been teaching yoga therapy for over 20 years. She has a gentle, friendly and open teaching style. Her main areas of work are chronic pain, back pain, women’s health (pregnancy, post-natal recovery and perinatal depression) and mental health (depression).