About Rachel
Rachel Grant is an AASW social worker with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem and depression. Rachel uses practical, down-to-earth language in sessions and aims to make each appointment feel manageable and focused.
Her work draws on approaches that pay attention to the nervous system and attachment relationships. She blends bottom-up strategies that help calm the body with talk-based methods that look at how past experiences affect current feelings.
How Rachel works
This means sessions often include breathing and grounding exercises alongside conversation about life patterns. Rachel has a particular interest in abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and the effects of family of origin problems. She also provides support around caregiver stress, blended family issues, dissociation and post-traumatic stress.
People who feel isolated, ashamed, or stuck in cycles of control or guilt may find her practical focus helpful. She describes her approach as trauma-informed and neuro-affirming, aiming to meet each person where they are. Sessions are paced to suit the client and often include simple exercises to practise between meetings.
Rachel works in Australia and conducts sessions in English. Her background as a social worker informs a practical, advocacy-minded stance in sessions. Rachel helps people make small, achievable changes that can reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | AASW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Rachel’s approaches work online
Rachel uses evidence-based techniques that focus on calming the body and rebuilding stable connections. One approach centres on nervous system regulation and grounding exercises; this involves simple practices to lower arousal and reduce anxiety symptoms, which can help with stress, panic and post-traumatic responses. Another emphasis is attachment-informed work that looks at patterns in relationships and helps people develop safer ways of relating and stronger self-support, which is useful for self-esteem, abandonment concerns and family of origin issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Rachel will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the pace based on how someone responds. This means techniques can be tried, reviewed and changed across sessions to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video can allow face-to-face connection and guided exercises, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, while live chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to access for people with busy lives.
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