About Rachel
Rachel Knudson is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, anger, and depression. She brings seven years of clinical experience and a straightforward, supportive style. Rachel centers the person in the room and treats them as the expert on their own life.
Rachel focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and recover after hard events. She listens for patterns that keep someone stuck, then helps them learn simpler ways to cope.
Background and approach
Her work often includes practical skills for calming anxiety, handling anger, and moving through grief. She also supports people who are struggling with identity and relationship-related pain. That includes issues like attachment concerns, feelings of emptiness, codependency, body image, and navigating kink or alternative sex culture.
Rachel pays attention to how past experiences affect current relationships and choices. People who’ve had trauma, abuse, or dissociation can find a steady, patient approach with her. She can also support those dealing with substance use, domestic violence aftermath, or the aftermath of disasters.
Rachel aims to reduce overwhelm and build day-to-day coping skills. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She helps clients identify realistic goals and practice new ways of responding.
Sessions emphasize small, useful changes that add up over time. Rachel is licensed in Arizona as an LPC and provides services in English. Sessions are offered through various online formats so clients can choose what fits their life best.
Therapeutic techniques and online care that fit your life
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and healing. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and anger, such as breathing, grounding, and stepwise planning to manage intense feelings. These skills help reduce overwhelm and make daily life more manageable.She also applies trauma-informed strategies aimed at helping people process painful events at a pace that feels tolerable. This work emphasizes safety, pacing, and building capacity so memories and reactions become less disruptive over time. For grief and loss, sessions focus on creating meaning, managing strong emotions, and restoring routines that support recovery.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel works with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will check in regularly and adjust methods as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy with Rachel is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and skills practice, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work well for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy lives and choose the format that helps them engage most effectively.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English