About Rachel
Rachel Van Dyk is a licensed professional counselor who brings 12 years of clinical experience to her work in Tennessee. She spent five years supporting college students and has since worked in independent practice and via telehealth. Rachel has logged over 3,000 face-to-face clinical hours and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
She approaches clients as people with stories. Rachel listens for how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
She blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy to map how patterns started and where change could help. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Rachel helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and experiment with new ways of responding.
She uses tools aimed at improving emotional responses, self-talk, and relationship behavior. Her work addresses relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, family concerns, eating struggles, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people managing major life changes and the fallout from abuse or traumatic events.
Rachel frames goals around increased confidence and clearer choices. She helps people create steps toward a more hopeful direction and builds skills they can use between sessions. Many clients leave feeling better able to handle emotions and relationships.
Therapy is offered in English and available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Rachel works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Attachment and Emotion-Focused Work Online
Rachel uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why they respond a certain way in close relationships and offers ways to create safer emotional connections.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which helps people identify core emotions and work through them in the moment. EFT can be useful for reducing escalation in relationships and for improving emotional clarity and regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. Together they decide which techniques fit the situation and move at a comfortable pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow full face-to-face conversation when that feels most helpful. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share thoughts between sessions or fit support into a work break. These options help make regular care more accessible and easier to maintain.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English