Rise Reclaim Recover
Specialist psychotherapy, supervision, training and consultation for domestic, sexual abuse and coercive control.
About Us
Jazz Rehal
Laura McCarthy
Laura McCarthy
Jazz Rehal CTA-P PTSTA is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She works in private practice and in corporate wellbeing.
She has over ten years clinical experience and has trained students for their CTA exams at Metanoia, The Link Centre, and TA East.
Jazz is a board member of Woman’s Trust a charity that offers free counselling to women impacted by domestic abuse.
Jazz specialises in domestic abuse recovery with a grounded, relational approach.
Prior to retraining Jazz had a long career in corporate health communications which has given her insight into systemic dynamics, wellbeing, and organisational culture
Laura McCarthy
Laura McCarthy
Laura McCarthy
Laura McCarthy CTA-P is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, supervisor, and CPD trainer working in private practice and specialist trauma services. She specialises in domestic abuse, sexual violence, and the long-term impact of coercive control with adult survivors.
She has over ten years’ clinical experience, including front line work with Kent Sexual Assault and Abuse Service (KSSAS) and as a trustee and ethics, practice, and safeguarding board member at Woman’s Trust a charity that offers free counselling to women impacted by domestic abuse.
Laura supports clients with Complex PTSD, dissociation, and developmental trauma, including experiences of grooming, ritual abuse, and sexual exploitation. Her approach is trauma-informed and power-aware, drawing on Transactional Analysis, feminist, and intersectional practice to support safety, agency, and repair.
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Before retraining, she spent over 25 years as a marketing director in the music and events industry.
POWER-AWARE SUPERVISION FOR PRACTITIONERS
Specialist, power informed group supervision for practitioners working with complex relational dynamics, domestic abuse, sexual violence and coercive control.
This is a specialist supervision space shaped by years of frontline therapeutic work, training and leadership within the violence against women and girls sector. Using a new feminist Transactional Analysis model developed specifically for work with abuse, violence and coercive control, we offer expertise rarely available within mainstream supervision spaces.
The group is suitable for practitioners working with individuals or couples.
- In individual work, we support practitioners to think more deeply about coercive control, trauma, shame, dissociation, post separation abuse and the long term impact of relational violence. We help you give clarity to your clients in making sense of complexities in their relationships.
- In couples work, we help practitioners navigate difficult and high conflict relational dynamics where power, fear, control and inequality may be present. We support practitioners to assess risk, prioritise safety and recognise coercive control, manipulation and abuse dynamics within the therapy room. Where abuse is present, we believe it is important to name it clearly rather than working from assumptions of equal responsibility.
Our approach works beyond individual formulation to include power, patriarchy, systems and structural violence within the therapeutic frame.
The group aims to be intersectional, trauma informed, power aware and politically literate. We centre solidarity with survivors, collective reflection and thoughtful exploration of the wider social and relational contexts that shape abuse and recovery.
Supervision supports practitioners to:
• deepen understanding of coercive control and gendered trauma
• strengthen power informed clinical decision making
• assess risk and work more safely with difficult couple dynamics
• recognise oppressive systemic and relational dynamics within the therapy room
• integrate feminist and trauma informed perspectives into practice
• stay resourced and connected in demanding frontline work
This is a reflective, collaborative space for practitioners seeking specialist supervision that meaningfully engages with power, oppression and recovery.
TWO ONLINE GROUPS AVAILABLE
Wednesdays 3.30pm
- 2 hours
- Every 4 weeks
- 3-6 practitioners per group
- Starting Wed 9th September
- £80
Fridays 9.00am
- 2 hours
- Every 4 weeks
- 3-6 practitioners per group
- Starting Fri 18th September
- £80
POWER-AWARE TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS
Our training moves beyond generic “trauma informed” approaches that often fail to fully recognise the realities of domestic abuse, sexual violence, coercive control and post separation abuse.
We teach a power informed, intersectional feminist approach that helps practitioners understand how patriarchy, power, gendered conditioning and systemic oppression shape trauma, relationships, coping strategies and therapeutic dynamics.
This is not simply training about trauma symptoms. It is specialist training focused on recognising coercive control, understanding the impact of chronic fear and entrapment, working safely with survivors, and identifying how abuse dynamics can become replicated, minimised or misunderstood within therapy itself.
We specifically support practitioners to work with the confusion, self doubt and reality distortion that so often accompany coercive control and gaslighting. Many clients arrive with a persistent sense that something is wrong in the relationship, while struggling to name or fully understand the abuse they are experiencing. Our training helps therapists recognise these dynamics earlier, respond more confidently and avoid colluding with patterns of minimisation, mutualisation or victim blaming.
Grounded in Feminist Transactional Analysis and liberation focused practice, our work supports therapists to develop greater confidence, clarity and ethical competence when working with complex relational trauma, domestic abuse and sexual violence in both individual and couples work.
We combine theory, clinical practice, case discussion and practical application to help therapists move beyond neutrality and towards work that is clinically robust, politically aware and survivor centred.
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Online One Day Training: Feminist TA Liberation Model
£175
Friday 4th December 2026
A focused and practical one day training introducing power informed, intersectional feminist approaches to psychotherapy, including work with:
- Domestic abuse
- Coercive control
- Sexual violence
- Post separation abuse
- Gendered trauma
- Couples dynamics and power imbalance
You do not need to be TA trained to benefit from this course.
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Catch us at one of our 2026 workshops:
- LINK CENTRE Options Weekend — 6th/7th June 2026
- LINK CENTRE CPD: Working with Couples — Date TBC
- Belgrade TA Conference — 22nd–25th October 2026
- TA Scotland — Date TBC
POWER-AWARE, PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR INDIVIDUALS
You might be here because something doesn’t feel right in your relationship.
You may be questioning yourself more than you used to. Feeling confused, anxious, or like you are “too sensitive.” You might find yourself walking on eggshells, trying to keep the peace, or struggling to explain what is happening to others.
You may not call it abuse. Many people don’t.
But if someone is controlling, undermining, intimidating, or making you doubt your own reality, it can have a profound impact on your mental health.
We offer specialist, power-informed psychotherapy for people affected by power dynamics in their relationships, domestic abuse, sexual violence, and coercive control.
Our work is grounded in intersectional feminist Transactional Analysis. That means we don’t just look at your symptoms. We help you understand what has happened to you, how power and control operate, and how these patterns take hold over time.
Therapy can help you make sense of the confusion, rebuild trust in your own thinking, and begin to feel more like yourself again.
We work with people at all stages, including those still in relationships, those leaving, and those dealing with post-separation abuse and ongoing risk.
Start Your Journey Today
The first step towards empowerment, liberation and better relationships.
Contact us today to schedule your initial consultation.
POWER-AWARE PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR COUPLES
Relationships don’t just run on communication. They are shaped by power, safety, and who feels able to be themselves.
You might be here because something feels out of balance. One of you may feel unheard, controlled, or like you are carrying more of the emotional weight, domestic labour or mental load. You may be going in circles, trying to fix things, but nothing really shifts.
In this work, we look directly at what is happening between you.
We pay attention to patterns, but also to power. Who adapts. Who leads. Who feels able to speak. Who doesn’t.
This can bring clarity.
It can also bring difficult conversations into the room, especially if things have been avoided or minimised. The aim is not to blame, but to understand what is actually happening so something different becomes possible.
Our approach is grounded in intersectional feminist Transactional Analysis. We work with the wider influences that shape relationships, including gender, culture, and lived experience, not just what is visible on the surface.
The focus is on creating the conditions for a more equal, balanced, and respectful relationship.
Where that is possible, we support you to move towards it together.
Where it isn’t, we are honest about that too.
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BUINSESS
Strategy, marketing, communications and policy
Business strategy, marketing, PR and communications
We help charities, psychotherapy training institutes and feminist or values-led businesses and organisations clarify where they are going, communicate what makes them distinctive and build the profile they need to grow.
You may be developing a new service, reviewing your strategic direction or struggling to translate strong ideas into a clear public offer. We bring together commercial thinking, marketing expertise, PR experience and an understanding of people, power and organisational culture.
With decades of senior leadership and board-level experience, we work directly with founders, leadership teams and decision-makers. Our approach is thoughtful, challenging and practical: helping you make better decisions and turn your values into a credible business strategy.
Business strategy
We help you step back from day-to-day pressures and look clearly at the direction of your organisation.
This may include:
- Clarifying your purpose, priorities and commercial direction
- Developing new services, offers or income streams
- Identifying opportunities for sustainable growth
- Reviewing how your organisation is positioned
- Aligning leadership decisions with your stated values
- Turning complex ideas into an achievable strategic plan
Marketing and audience development
Good work is not enough if the right people cannot understand, find or engage with it.
We help organisations strengthen their marketing, reach new audiences and communicate their value without diluting what they stand for.
This may include:
- Marketing strategy and planning
- Brand and service positioning
- Audience identification and development
- Campaign development
- Website and promotional messaging
- Launching new services, programmes or initiatives
- Reviewing what is and is not working
PR, media relations and public profile
We help organisations develop a stronger public voice and gain appropriate visibility for their work.
Drawing on senior PR, media and crisis-communications experience, we can support you with:
- PR strategy and media planning
- Developing newsworthy stories and campaigns
- Press releases, opinion pieces and media materials
- Media targeting and journalist engagement
- Spokesperson preparation
- Thought leadership and public positioning
- Reputation management
- Responding to difficult or unexpected media attention
- Social media strategy and content planning
The aim is not publicity for its own sake. It is to build a profile that supports your wider business objectives and strengthens trust in your organisation.
Communications, messaging and crisis response
We help you find clear, confident language for what you do, why it matters and what you stand for.
We can also support you when the pressure is on: helping you communicate accurately, respond strategically and protect the trust you have built with your audiences.
Policy and organisational development
We develop and review policies so they are clear, usable and consistent with your organisation’s values and responsibilities.
Our combined experience of business leadership, psychotherapy, equality and safeguarding allows us to recognise where organisational culture, policy and public messaging do not quite match — and help you close that gap.
Specialist expertise
We are particularly interested in working with organisations that are values-led, socially engaged or trying to create meaningful change. This may include charities, training organisations, professional bodies, therapeutic organisations, ethical businesses and organisations working with women and marginalised communities.
We also offer specialist consultation and education on domestic abuse, sexual violence, coercive control and post-separation abuse when this knowledge is relevant to an organisation’s services, policies, communications or workforce.
Got a brief, invitation to tender or need a free 15 min chat?
If you need clarity, authority and a voice that holds under pressure, we’re here.
We work on an hourly and daily basis, and are uniquely placed with clinical, business, communication and media relations skills,
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Justice in Family Court
Justice in Family Court
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Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology
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Positive Psychology
Positive Psychology
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