Rachel is the co-director of Claiming Space, a Community Interest Company she co-founded in 2017 to provide support, and training for practitioners working with vulnerable populations. In 2021 Rachel co-authored the best-selling practitioner text, Vicarious Trauma in the Legal Profession: a practical guide to trauma, burnout and collective care, which outsold all other books released by its publisher, LAG, in its first year of sale.
Rachel regularly delivers training on immigration and family law matters; her journal article, ‘Immigration issues in children law proceedings’ January [2020] Fam Law 88, on the intersection between these two practice areas was endorsed in the Court of Appeal (https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2020/731.html see §35).
Rachel has spoken widely at conferences, on national radio, podcasts, and in print media, about vicarious trauma and its impact on practitioners.