Staff Profile

  • Rachel Evenden is a certified Integrative Counsellor (BACP), part-time lecturer in Psychology and Counselling and research associate within the centre for the Study of Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies (EECS) at the University of Northampton. Her research and lecturing covers a broad range of subject areas surrounding Counselling and Positive Psychology domains. Her most recent research focuses on Clinical parapsychology in the UK to investigate the range and incidence of clients seeking advice for anomalous experiences (AEs) in a secular counselling service, and the training needs of student counsellors and clinical psychologists.

  • Rachel is teaching on the following modules:

    • PSY1011 Positive Psychology
    • PSY2007 The Psychology of Well-being
    • PSY3028 Counselling in Context
    • PSYM141 Fundamentals of Counselling
    • PSYM142 Integrating counselling theory and practice
    • PSYM143 Applying Integrative Counselling Approaches
    • PSYM134 Placement and Supervision
    • PSYM086 Dissertation and Research Methods
  • Research Interests (Qualitative Methods)

    • Positive Psychology: Hope, Wisdom, Resilience
    • Counselling Specialisms: Spirituality, Bereavement, Creative therapies
    • Spiritual/Anomalous/Exceptional experiences
    • Mediumship: Therapeutic values/practice
  • For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Rachel Evenden’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.