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Rachel Rickayzen
Specialist Mentor (MH)
Pronouns: she/her
Rachel is an Occupational Therapist and Life Coach, who loves working with students. She has three kids, two of whom have experienced student life and she was a student herself fairly recently, going back to uni in middle age.
She is proud to be part of a widely neurodiverse family and is passionate about supporting students as they navigate life and learning. In her spare time, she feeds and cuddles Elmo, the family rescue cat, does her daily Wordle and volunteers in her local community as a Bereavement Listener.