About Rachel
Rachel Jones is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 13 years of therapy experience to her work. She trained in counseling and educational psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in Black Studies. Rachel offers straightforward, calm support for people facing hard moments.
She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She also helps with compassion fatigue, addictions, self-esteem, and career questions.
Background and approach
Relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, and ADHD are part of her practice as well. Rachel uses practical, conversational methods in sessions. She leans on client-centered listening to understand each person's priorities.
She then uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try new, manageable responses. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques come into play for people who want clear goals and short-term plans. Sessions often involve setting small experiments to test what changes feel useful.
Rachel pays attention to culture and life context while working with each person. Her approach is warm and direct. She works with people who want help sorting their thoughts, healing from past hurt, or building skills to handle daily pressure.
Rachel schedules many evening hours in Central Standard Time to make sessions fit varied routines.
Approaches that fit into online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist reflects what you say, asks questions to clarify, and helps you set the pace for change. This approach is useful for people who want a safe place to sort out feelings and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. It often includes short exercises or homework between sessions and can be effective for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention skills so people can be less swept up by difficult thoughts and emotions.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they can try an approach and adjust it if something feels off or unhelpful.
Online sessions let people connect in flexible ways. Video calls work well for deeper conversations, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English