About Rachel
Rachel Black is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. She works with concerns like self-esteem, coping with life changes, addiction, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and intimacy-related issues. Rachel practices from Florida and offers a warm, direct approach that aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first to understand what matters most and then helps set clear, reachable goals.
How Rachel works
Sessions focus on short-term strategies and longer-term patterns so people can feel steadier day to day while working on deeper change. Rachel uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s needs and preferences.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness techniques are combined when helpful to build skills for emotion regulation, communication, and problem solving. Over two decades she has helped people facing grief, trauma and abuse, career transitions, parenting stress, chronic illness, and complex family issues. She pays attention to how shame, abandonment, and family of origin dynamics affect decision making and relationships.
Rachel also offers coaching-style support for career and life goals when that is the best fit. Therapy with Rachel can include practical homework, skills practice, and gentle exploration of painful memories. She aims to make sessions feel like a steady, trustworthy place to notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Rachel lists 12 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online work
Rachel draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns influence how a person connects and reacts; it helps with trust, intimacy concerns, and repair after hurt. Client-centered therapy means sessions follow the person’s pace and priorities, offering a space where thoughts and feelings are listened to without pushing a set agenda. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match goals, symptoms, and everyday life. That collaborative planning can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, reminders, or practicing short tools between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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