About Rachel

Rachel is motivated by using co-design and system change methodologies to transform the UK’s mental health services. She would love to see a mental health system that works for people, where individuals are seen as whole people and practitioners are enabled to collaborate and do the work that matters to them.

Rachel started out working in inpatient mental health services in the NHS, after completing a masters in Psychology. She went on to work in a range of organisations delivering social impact, including co-creating visual storytelling tools with people with lived-experience of migration at PositiveNegatives and running large scale grant programmes for news and education at Nesta. Most recently Rachel worked on the development of Anna Freud’s strategy to better support child and family mental health across the UK.

Rachel lives in London and grew up in the USA and Wales. She has a degree in Fine Art and loves photography and painting. She likes to get out into nature whenever she can.