About Rachel
Rachel Hayes uses a client-centered approach to guide people through difficult life moments. She is an LPC and an LCPC and brings eight years of counseling experience to her work. Rachel focuses on building a respectful, practical working relationship so people can tackle problems step by step.
Rachel helps people facing addictions, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also supports those dealing with eating and body image concerns, intimacy-related issues, relationship and communication problems, and anger.
How Rachel works
Her practice includes work around trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with EMDR when appropriate. She uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change.
Sessions focus on real skills and small shifts that make daily life easier. Rachel has worked in a range of clinical settings over eight years. That experience has shaped a straightforward, interactive style that centers the person in the room.
She listens for practical patterns and then helps people try new ways of reacting and relating. People who come for help can expect a collaborative plan. Rachel works with each person to set short-term goals, practice coping skills, and track progress.
The aim is clearer choices and steadier days.
Rachel lists 6 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.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the person to find their own solutions; it helps when someone wants a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and mood swings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills, which can help with intense emotions and relationship struggles.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on progress and preferences. Together they choose what feels most useful for the problem at hand.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people see and hear the therapist for in-depth work, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, and messaging allows brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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