Rachel Bannister

Rachel is a teacher by background and has recently completed a Post Grad Cert in Peer Supported Open Dialogue (POD). She works as an expert by experience in various roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych).

Rachel is co-founder and chair of the grassroots charity Mental Health – Time for Action Foundation which campaigns for fully funded, holistic and compassionate mental health care.

Rachel has written about her personal experience of addiction to prescription benzodiazapines in the British Medical Journal (BMj).