About Rachael
Rachael Figueroa uses a client-centered approach as the foundation of her work. She meets people where they are and builds treatment around their goals. Rachael is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in New York with 25 years of experience.
She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first steps into therapy straightforward and respectful. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, and depression with practical tools and steady support.
How Rachael works
She also addresses grief and loss, anger, low self-esteem, sleeping problems, and addiction-related concerns. Her work includes attention to compassion fatigue and ADHD, and she pays close attention to each person's priorities when planning sessions. Rachael draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot patterns of thought that keep them stuck.
She uses emotionally-focused methods to strengthen how people understand and respond to strong feelings. Mindfulness tools and motivational interviewing are added when they fit the person's aims and readiness. Sessions are shaped around individual needs rather than a fixed formula.
Rachael explains options clearly and helps people choose strategies they can try between meetings. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and practical coping skills for day-to-day life. Her background includes long-standing clinical work in New York settings and varied practice with complex concerns such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and trauma related to disasters.
Rachael aims to be direct, warm, and steady while helping people build momentum toward clearer goals.
Rachael lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Rachael works with
The areas below are the ones Rachael selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around a person's goals. Online meetings let the therapist and client choose tasks and topics that feel most useful while staying flexible about when and how to meet.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In online sessions this often looks like reviewing patterns together, assigning short practice exercises, and checking progress between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps people name, track, and respond to strong emotions. Online work can include guided conversations, exercises to notice emotional shifts, and strategies to manage intense feelings in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. Plans can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for detailed conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, coaching-style prompts, or quick coping strategies between longer sessions.
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A practical next step
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