About Rachel
Rachel Lahasky is a licensed clinical social worker in Mississippi with 17 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and issues that affect self-esteem. Rachel centers work on the person in front of her and builds on strengths people already have.
She uses straightforward conversations to help people cope with life changes and career stress. Sessions often include practical steps to reduce anxiety and build confidence.
How Rachel works
Rachel supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and the emotional impact of loss. Her approach also addresses relationship concerns such as communication problems, commitment issues, jealousy, and intimacy-related challenges. She assists people working through infidelity, anger, and forgiveness when those issues affect daily life.
Parenting topics she addresses include postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and caregiver stress. Rachel draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered methods to follow the person’s lead, and cognitive-behavioral tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy help with emotion regulation and impulsivity. People can expect a warm, down-to-earth tone and a focus on clear steps they can try between sessions. Rachel encourages small, manageable changes and celebrates progress along the way.
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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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Practical approaches you can use online
Rachel regularly uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's priorities and strengths. This approach means the therapist listens first and follows what matters to the person, making sessions feel directed by the client's goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify thought patterns that worsen anxiety or low mood and offers concrete techniques to change those reactions and behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, provides skills for managing intense emotions and impulsivity and can be useful for anger, relationship turmoil, and self-control.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques match their needs and goals. That may mean trying a skill-focused CBT exercise for a few weeks, then adding mindfulness or DBT skills as needed to support emotion regulation and daily coping.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging supports more flexible, ongoing communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on goals between sessions.
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