About Rachel
Rachel Phelps is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and difficulties with relationships. She sees individuals who struggle with sleep, parenting strain, career shifts, and the fallout from trauma or addiction. Rachel writes plainly and offers steady guidance for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She uses straightforward, evidence-based tools to build coping skills and reduce symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her approach, focusing on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and geared toward skills that can be used between meetings. Rachel pays attention to attachment patterns, communication difficulties, and multicultural factors that shape a person’s experience. She also supports people dealing with impulsivity, mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Her work includes helping with substance use, post-traumatic stress, and self-harm concerns when those topics come up. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. Conversations include checking what’s working, rehearsing new responses, and adapting strategies when life changes.
Clients can expect a calm, direct style that balances empathy with action. Rachel holds LPC credentials in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and brings seven years of clinical experience. She offers help to adults navigating young-adult transitions, relationship stress, or parenting pressures.
The focus is always on practical steps toward better daily functioning and greater emotional balance.
CBT and practical strategies for online care
Rachel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions typically focus on identifying patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and on practicing new ways of responding to everyday situations. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many mood-related concerns.She also emphasizes skills-based work that clients can use between sessions, such as relaxation techniques, activity planning, and communication rehearsal. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process; Rachel will work with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level in sessions. That collaboration helps tailor pace and techniques as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is often used for full sessions and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging works well for quick check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy weeks or life transitions, while still focusing on the same practical skills and therapeutic goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English