About Rachel
Rachel Malvaez is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with five years of clinical experience. She offers a compassionate, person-centered approach and aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, grounded in kindness and practical conversation.
Rachel supports adults and young adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She helps people who feel stuck, want clearer communication, or are trying to understand patterns that get in the way of relationships and goals.
How Rachel works
She also addresses concerns around self-esteem, social anxiety, and isolation. Her work often focuses on attachment issues, codependency, avoidant personality patterns, and commitment struggles. She guides people through relationship communication problems, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose.
Pregnancy and childbirth concerns and women's issues are also within her focus areas. Sessions emphasize direct, open communication. Rachel uses an integrated, evidence-informed approach and centers the client’s own knowledge about their story and strengths.
She brings warmth and a touch of humor alongside deeper emotional work. Before training as a therapist, Rachel worked in tech and shifted careers after finding a stronger pull toward human connection. That background informs her practical style and interest in meaning and independence during transitions.
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
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Support
Rachel uses an integrated, evidence-informed approach that centers the person and their goals. Person-centered work focuses on listening and building trust so people feel understood and can choose the changes they want. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and life transitions.She also draws on techniques that address attachment patterns and communication. These methods help people notice repeating relationship habits, try new ways of connecting, and practice clearer, more direct communication when needed. That work is useful for codependency, commitment concerns, and social anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Decisions about techniques are collaborative and guided by the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for more in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging work for quick check-ins, reflection between sessions, or shorter, flexible exchanges.
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