About Rachel
Rachel Anauo offers direct, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low self-esteem. She uses clear techniques to help clients manage cravings and addiction-related struggles and to cope with major life changes. Rachel is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of clinical experience and a straightforward, caring manner.
Her sessions focus on what is happening now and what can be changed next.
How Rachel works
She blends thinking-based tools with mindfulness practices so clients can notice unhelpful patterns and try something different. Motivational interviewing is used to help people find their own reasons to change, and narrative techniques help put painful experiences into a different story. Rachel often helps people facing relationship strain, family-of-origin concerns, or issues around intimacy and commitment.
She also works with people dealing with caregiver stress, body image struggles, guilt, shame, or isolation. Conversations typically identify one or two practical goals and simple steps to move toward them. She tailors each plan to the person's goals and daily life.
Sessions may include short skill practice, guided reflection, and planning concrete next steps to try between meetings. Progress is reviewed regularly and plans adjusted as needed. Rachel provides services online using a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions operate through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is handled after a short matching process.
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What Rachel works with
The areas below are the ones Rachel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Rachel commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to notice stress in the moment and respond differently.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify their own reasons for change and to build commitment one step at a time. These methods are practical and can be adapted to short skill practice, journaling prompts, or brief behavioral experiments between meetings. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins, and practicing skills in real-life moments.
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A practical next step
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