About Rachael
Rachael Morgan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania with 22 years of experience. She offers a straightforward, nonjudgmental approach and meets people where they are. Her style is conversational and focused on practical skills that can be used day to day.
She practices client-centered care and draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies. Mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas also shape her work. These approaches are used to help people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and stress, and to develop stronger coping skills for life changes.
Background and approach
Rachael has worked with a wide range of concerns, including addictions, relationship and family stress, grief, eating and body image issues, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication problems. Her background includes individual and group formats as well as skills training.
Sessions focus on building practical skills, boosting self-esteem, and creating safer, healthier choices. She encourages small, manageable steps toward change rather than dramatic overnight shifts. Rachael helps clients make concrete plans and practices that can be used between sessions.
The tone in her work is empowering and hopeful. She positions herself as a guide rather than an expert with all the answers. People who want a calm, skills-based, and empathetic counselor may find her style useful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist, using listening and empathy to shape goals and next steps. It helps when someone needs a supportive guide to sort their priorities and make choices that fit their life.Cognitive behavioral therapy is about identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping by teaching concrete exercises to practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy brings skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier communication. It can be useful for people who want step-by-step tools to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is revisited as progress is made and goals change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can work well for short check-ins, homework support, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between in-person contacts.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English