About Rachel
Rachel May is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and a history of work in psychiatric settings to her sessions. Rachel focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship or parenting concerns.
She listens without judgment and offers practical guidance tailored to each person’s goals. Rachel draws on several therapy approaches to build a plan that fits each person.
How Rachel works
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult feelings while moving toward what matters. She also applies cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thought patterns and practice different behaviors. Her style is direct and compassionate.
Sessions include problem-solving, skill practice, and conversations about values and priorities. Rachel offers suggestions and resources, and she checks in on what is or isn’t working as therapy continues. Clients can expect practical steps alongside space to talk about painful experiences.
Rachel has experience with trauma, grief, eating and intimacy-related issues, codependency, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She also helps people facing issues related to identity, family strain, and compassion fatigue. Therapy sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Rachel works collaboratively to set goals and adjust the plan as progress is made, so care stays focused on what the person needs next.
Rachel lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Rachel's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps toward a meaningful life. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns that contribute to distress and practicing different behaviors to change outcomes. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problems with coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of relating when old patterns cause pain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will talk with each person about their goals, strengths, and preferences, and then try approaches that fit those needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods over time so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while adapting to everyday life.
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