About Rachel
Rachel Bentley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of post-licensure practice in Arizona. She draws on a long clinical background to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, addiction, and life changes. Rachel writes plainly about strengths and practical steps that lead to change.
Rachel trained in marriage and family therapy and has worked in schools, group homes, addiction programs, and residential care. That variety gave her exposure to many kinds of concerns and everyday ways people cope.
How Rachel works
She uses ideas from attachment and object relations theory to show how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions Rachel helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication.
Her work emphasizes building on existing strengths while introducing new, healthier coping strategies. Therapeutic approaches Rachel uses include cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused ideas, and attachment-based work. These methods are applied in straightforward ways to problems like depression, grief, intimacy issues, parenting stress, anger, and substance concerns.
Rachel describes therapy as a collaborative effort. She helps clients identify goals, test small changes between sessions, and track progress. Outside of work she is involved in her children’s activities and has long personal ties to military communities.
Rachel lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early caregiving shapes current relationship patterns. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and learn new ways to connect and respond.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it breaks problems into concrete skills and steps.
Rachel treats choosing the right approach as a team effort. She discusses goals and tries methods that match a person's needs. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging adds flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for relationship work. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill practice easier between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep steady momentum toward their goals.
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