About Raquel
Raquel Colbert-Dawson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people sort through life’s layers to build clearer goals and healthier habits. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at people ready to make changes and try new ways of thinking.
Raquel works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges around self-esteem. She also helps with coping through life changes such as divorce, midlife transitions, and end-of-life concerns.
How Raquel works
Other areas she focuses on include panic attacks, social anxiety, body image, smoking or vaping cessation, and finding life purpose. Her style centers on listening to each person and adapting methods to what the person needs. She uses client-centered work to focus on the person’s experience and cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to teach practical tools for day-to-day life. Sessions are aimed at building emotional skills and self-value over time. Raquel emphasizes small, achievable steps and clear skills people can use between sessions.
She encourages commitment to the process and openness to trying new coping strategies. Raquel is licensed in Oklahoma and works in English. People who do best with her are ready to engage in change, willing to practice new skills, and looking for straightforward guidance toward healthier habits and relationships.
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What Raquel works with
The areas below are the ones Raquel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Raquel frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, panic, and low self-esteem. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding each person’s experience so goals and pacing match the person’s needs.She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set practical goals and teach quick skills people can try between sessions. Finding the right approach is treated as a collaboration. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and workable for the person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when a camera isn’t needed, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity between appointments.
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