About Rachel
Rachel Humphries is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She has four years of experience and a background that includes both mental health work and emergency services. Rachel focuses on practical care that helps people manage day-to-day challenges.
Her work centers on stress, anxiety, depression, and recovery from trauma and abuse. She also supports people coping with life changes and those working through self-esteem struggles. Additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic pain, illness and disability, communication problems, first responder issues, intellectual disability, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
In session Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build skills and improve functioning. She prefers straightforward, hands-on strategies that can be tried between meetings. Sessions often include learning coping tools, practicing communication strategies, and breaking big problems into smaller steps.
Rachel aims to make sessions respectful and down-to-earth. She works to help people feel heard and to set goals that fit their daily life. Her background in emergency services informs a practical approach to stress and crisis response.
People who choose Rachel can expect clear explanations and collaborative planning. She helps clients track progress and adjust strategies as needed. Her practice offers a mix of meeting styles to fit different schedules and preferences.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in an accessible, practical way. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-informed approaches pay attention to safety and pacing while helping people process past harms and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she and the client decide on techniques and adjust them as needed so sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Intellectual disability
- Post-traumatic stress
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English