About Rachel
Rachel Hayes uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, who keeps sessions focused on practical steps and clear goals. Rachel speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel doable for people under stress.
She brings eight years of counseling experience to her work and has supported people facing depression, anxiety, bipolar symptoms, and problems with self-esteem. Addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image concerns, and relationship and intimacy-related issues are also within her focus.
Background and approach
Rachel helps people cope with life changes, anger, chronic pain or illness, and family-of-origin struggles. Rachel draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and grounding techniques for trauma work.
Motivational Interviewing is included when people want support with change around substance use or habits. Sessions combine listening, skill coaching, and steps people can take between meetings. Rachel adapts tools to the person, not the other way around.
She works with individuals on communication problems, codependency, control issues, and the fallout from divorce and separation. People can expect straightforward talk, clear suggestions, and a focus on what will make daily life a bit easier. Rachel practices from Florida and offers therapy in English.
She accepts international clients and uses online formats so therapy fits into busy schedules.
How evidence-based methods work in online therapy
Rachel commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and eating-related concerns through practical homework and skill practice. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help people manage strong feelings and improve communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different techniques. Together they review what is working and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone visits can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, in-the-moment coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English