About Rachel
Rachel Wilson-Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 23 years of experience. She brings a warm, collaborative style and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, chronic illness, and identity concerns.
Her practice emphasizes practical skills. She helps people set realistic goals and build routines that fit everyday life. Sessions may cover time management, problem solving, conflict resolution, parenting strategies, and ways to improve self-esteem.
How Rachel works
Rachel draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to strengthen how people relate to others and to themselves. She also uses cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies to untangle anxious thoughts and manage mood. Existential ideas are used when people want to find meaning after big life changes or loss.
She has worked across varied professional settings and with diverse needs over two decades. That experience informs a flexible, individualized approach rather than one fixed method. She also has personal experience as a parent of a child with autism, which shapes her understanding of neurodiversity and caregiver stress.
Consultations aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Conversations are practical and focused on next steps, while still allowing time to process emotions. Rachel partners with people to build plans they can use outside of sessions, then reviews progress and adjusts as needed.
Rachel lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How Rachel’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in connection and learn new ways to relate that reduce conflict and increase closeness. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the client, helping them identify next steps and build confidence to act on them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It offers practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and mood changes. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or blend methods that fit. She approaches this as a collaborative process and reviews progress to adjust the plan when needed. Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to consistent care. Video calls let people use visual cues and do deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share updates and get support between longer sessions, which helps keep momentum while working on goals.Start online instead of waiting
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