Rachel works with her clients to utilize their strengths and to understand and shape the ways in which our past impacts our present experience of ourselves, others and the world around us. This process entails shifting old ways of thinking and coping that are no longer serving us, and re-building the parts of ourselves that have been hurt or silenced. Rachel is passionate about holding space for this process of shifting and re-building to create safer and more meaningful internal and external relationships and experiences.

Specialties

Rachel completed her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Saint Mary’s University and is currently working towards licensure. Rachel is trained in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), AIR Network (adaptive internal relationships network), and DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) and utilizes these specialties to support her clients in trauma recovery, internal resourcing, and skill building. Rachel is also a 200 hour certified yoga instructor and brings aspects of yoga philosophy into her work with clients.

Areas of Focus

Rachel’s areas of focus include anxiety, trauma, dissociation, grief, and relationships. Rachel has experience helping people navigate attachment wounds, post traumatic recovery, the loss of a loved one, major life transitions, relationships, parenting teenagers, and finding a sense of self.

Treatment Approach

Rachel works with individuals (ages 14+), families, couples and groups. She takes a holistic, person-centered approach to therapy which means she meets her client’s where they are to find wellbeing on physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and relational levels. Rachel pulls from the EMDR and AIR-Network frameworks and narrative, and cognitive behavioral therapies to support her clients in creating safety, acceptance and change.