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 PTSTA is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA), 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 is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA), supervisor, and trainer working in private practice and specialist trauma services. She specialises in trauma, domestic abuse, sexual violence, and the long-term impact of coercive control with adult survivors.
She has over ten years’ clinical experience, including 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.
Alongside her clinical work, she provides training and supervision for therapists, focusing on gendered trauma and ethical practice.
Before retraining, she spent over 25 years as a marketing director in the music and events industry.
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.
POWER-AWARE SUPERVISION FOR PRACTITIONERS
Specialist, power informed group supervision for practitioners working with domestic abuse, sexual violence and coercive control.
This is a small, focused space designed to hold complexity, risk and the realities of working with gendered trauma. We work beyond individual formulation to include power, systems and structural violence in the clinical frame.
Supervision supports practitioners to deepen their understanding of coercive control, strengthen clinical decision making and stay resourced in high risk and demanding work.
Get in Touch
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ONLINE INDIVIDUAL:
ONLINE GROUPS:
Wednesdays 3.30pm
from September 2026
2 hours
Every 4 weeks
6 practitioners per group
POWER-AWARE TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS
Our training supports practitioners to move beyond generic trauma informed approaches towards work that is power informed, system aware and grounded in the realities of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
We focus on developing confidence, clarity and skill in working with coercive control, gendered trauma and post separation abuse.
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Online One Day Training in Feminist TA
£150
Friday 4th December 2026
Focused, practical training introducing power informed approaches to individuals and couples work including domestic abuse, sexual violence and coercive control.
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Online 6 Weekends Training Certificate
2027 (Dates TBC)
In depth training exploring gendered trauma, coercive control, post separation abuse and working effectively in complex and high risk situations.
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In Person Training
LINK CENTRE Options weekend 6/7th June 2026
LINK CENTRE CPD Working with Couples (Date TBC)
SERBIAN TA CONFERENCE (22-25th October)
TA SCOTLAND (Date TBC)
Specialist teaching and workshops, embedding power informed, intersectional feminist TA into psychotherapy training.
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PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION FOR BUINSESS
For psychotherapy organisations, training institutes, charities/NFP, legal professionals.
Silence protects power. Speaking out about abuse is not a communications risk, it is an ethical responsibility.
If you are working in this space, you need to be able to name abuse clearly, understand coercive control and hold your position when it is challenged. Many organisations know this but struggle with how to say it, how to stand by it publicly and how to respond when pressure comes.
We help you find that clarity of voice and use it. We can support you to speak about abuse, power and harm in ways that are accurate, defensible and aligned with your values, while protecting your organisation and the people you serve.
With decades of board level experience, we work at a strategic level with leadership teams and decision makers. This is about direction, positioning and ensuring your work holds under scrutiny.
Business strategy
- We work with you to shape services and strategic direction so they reflect the realities of abuse, coercion and systemic harm. This includes clarifying what you stand for and ensuring your strategy, growth and decision making are aligned with that position.
Policy development
- We develop and review policy so it is clear, usable and capable of holding in complex situations. This means moving beyond neutrality and ensuring your policies actively protect survivors, address coercive control and support consistent decision making under pressure. Our policy work is firmly rooted the Equality act to present legal challenges.
Communications, messaging and crisis response
- We help you develop language that is direct, accurate and accountable, without minimising or obscuring abuse.
- We also support you in moments of risk or scrutiny, helping you respond in ways that protect your reputation, your values and those affected by your work.
Marketing, audience development and public positioning
- We support you to strengthen your external voice and reach wider audiences without diluting your stance. This includes audience development, brand positioning and high level marketing strategy so your work is visible, understood and trusted.
Additional areas of expertise
- We provide strategic consultation and education on domestic abuse, sexual violence, coercive control and post separation abuse, including for legal professionals and organisations that need a clearer, practice grounded understanding of these dynamics.
- We also offer strategic input on recruitment to support the development of values aligned, politically aware teams.
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,