Raquel
Walker

I am passionate about working with people who have tried to understand themselves and still feel stuck. People who have the insight and self-awareness and yet find themselves returning again to the same patterns that once kept them safe but now feel like a cage. I find this work endlessly meaningful because I know that stuck does not mean broken; it means the nervous system is still doing its job, protecting against a threat that has already passed.

What lights me up is the moment of coherence, when a person suddenly sees why they do what they do. Not intellectually, but in the body. That moment of recognition is where I believe genuine transformation begins and I find it endlessly moving to witness.

I am particularly passionate about working with complex trauma, C-PTSD, borderline presentations, ADHD, ADD and ASD presentations that are so often misunderstood. I deeply believe that these are not disorders to be managed but responses to be understood.

I also hold a special place in my heart for neurodivergent people, particularly those with late or questioning ADHD and autism diagnoses, who have spent years being told they were too much, or not enough. I come from a neurodivergent family and bring a genuine inside-out understanding of that experience. Finding out late that you were never broken, just seen through the wrong lens, is its own kind of grief, and its own kind of liberation. 

Coherence Therapy is at the heart of my work, which I practise within a memory reconsolidation framework; the understanding that every symptom arises from an emotional learning that once made complete sense, an adaptive response to something that hurt. 

Rather than working against the symptom, we work with it, finding its internal logic, understanding what it was protecting, and creating the conditions for that learning to be updated at its source through memory reconsolidation. 

I also draw on EMDR, ACT, DBT, Parts Work, Mindfulness and Compassion Focused Therapy. 

What unites all of these approaches in my practice is a commitment to working experientially and somatically at the level of felt, embodied experience, not just cognitive understanding. I believe that insight alone is rarely sufficient for deep change. The patterns that bring people to therapy were not formed through thinking; they were formed through experience. And so it is through experience that they can most meaningfully be updated.

I see people move from a relationship of shame and confusion with their own responses, to one of genuine understanding and compassion. I see patterns that have persisted for decades shift, not because someone learned to manage them better, but because the nervous system updated the learning that was generating them. I see people who came in, believing they were broken, leave knowing they were always surviving and begin, for the first time, to truly live.

That is what I am here for. That is what I believe is possible. And I have seen it happen, which is why I show up to this work every single day with genuine hope and genuine conviction that transformational change is real.