About Rebecca
Women Beyond Cancer was born from lived experience.
Rebecca Perkins is the founder — she created this programme from the inside out, drawing on her own recovery.
Her Story
The particular strangeness of being told the hard part is over
Rebecca knows what it is to finish cancer treatment and find yourself suddenly without the scaffolding that held you in place. She knows the particular strangeness of being told by the medical system that the hard part is over, while privately knowing that a different kind of hard part is only just beginning.
That experience — and everything she learned in navigating it — sits at the heart of everything Women Beyond Cancer does. The programme exists because Rebecca asked, after her own recovery, what she had actually needed. And then dedicated herself to making that available to others.
Training & Expertise
Three disciplines. One considered approach.
Rebecca trained across three disciplines that, when held together, offer something genuinely different: a way of helping women tell themselves a new story about who they are now, and find their footing in it.
Certified Therapeutic Journaling Practitioner
Creates a space where writing becomes a tool for insight rather than performance — a place to put down what is hard to say aloud, and find, through the page, something that begins to feel like clarity.
Accredited Forest Bathing Guide
Grounded in the emerging body of evidence that time in nature, guided with intention, can measurably restore the nervous system and reconnect people with themselves in ways that clinical settings rarely can.
NLP Coach
Grounded in the understanding that cancer and its treatment reshape not just our bodies, but our inner narratives. Provides practical tools to help women notice unhelpful thought patterns and begin to consciously author new stories about themselves and their futures.
Her Vision
Surviving cancer is not the end of the story. It is a beginning.
Rebecca created Women Beyond Cancer because she believes that surviving cancer is not the end of the story — and that beginning deserves proper support, proper community, and proper space to unfold.
She is committed to making core support accessible to all women. Her aspiration is that cost should never stand between a woman and access to peer community, guided journaling, and nature-based healing—the essentials of recovery. Through the partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund Wales, the programme is offered completely free to women in Wales, a step towards that vision
Rebecca leads every session herself — the journaling, the forest bathing, the peer spaces — bringing the same presence and care to each that she wishes someone had brought to her.