About Rachel
Rachel Anthony is an AASW social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and self-esteem concerns. She works with individuals facing life changes and relationship difficulties, offering a calm and steady presence as people sort through painful experiences. Rachel uses a gentle, trauma-informed style that focuses on the person in front of her.
Sessions often start with practical ways to manage distress, then move at a pace the client feels comfortable with.
How Rachel works
She aims to help people feel safer in their bodies and kinder to themselves. Her background includes seven years supporting people after sexual assault, childhood trauma and family violence, as well as helping those struggling with depression, confidence and major life transitions. That experience informs how she structures sessions and what strategies she suggests.
Rachel draws on compassion-focused ideas, mindfulness, somatic practices and EMDR to help reduce the hold of painful memories and anxious patterns. Treatment is tailored to what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. People can expect a collaborative process that balances practical coping skills with opportunities to process deeper issues.
Rachel encourages small, achievable steps toward greater resilience and self-trust. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into daily life and works with each person to set realistic goals and a pace that suits them.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Rachel commonly uses compassion-focused methods to help people reduce self-criticism and build a kinder inner voice. This approach focuses on developing self-compassion skills and practices that ease shame and harsh self-judgement.She also works with mindfulness and somatic practices, which help people notice bodily responses to stress and learn simple ways to calm the nervous system. These techniques suit anxiety, trauma symptoms and ongoing tension in daily life.
Where appropriate, EMDR is used as a targeted method for processing distressing memories and reducing their emotional intensity. This can be helpful for people who find certain memories continue to trigger strong reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that feel comfortable, and adjust plans based on the client's goals and preferences. Clients take an active role in deciding pace and focus.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to engage from different locations.
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