About Rachel
Rachel Washington-Childers is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with three years of clinical experience. She focuses on straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Rachel aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear.
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals clients can try between sessions. Rachel draws on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies when clients want concrete steps and clearer momentum. Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-oriented. Rachel works to create a warm atmosphere where clients feel heard and respected.
She helps parents navigate changes around pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood, and supports people dealing with postpartum concerns and relationship strain. She pays attention to everyday issues that affect mood and self-worth, such as body image, money stress, control issues, and isolation. Rachel also addresses communication problems, commitment concerns, and questions about life purpose.
When trauma or loss is present, she helps people find manageable ways to cope and move forward. Rachel believes therapy should match the person. She partners with clients to tailor a plan that fits their needs, pace, and goals.
That plan may include learning new coping skills, practicing mindfulness, or setting small steps toward healthier routines.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this means identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing new ways of thinking, and practicing small behavioral experiments between appointments to reduce anxiety or low mood.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills for the present moment. It helps people notice stress, worry, or strong emotions without immediately reacting. Practicing brief mindfulness exercises between sessions can reduce rumination and support coping with grief or parenting demands.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That could mean blending CBT techniques with motivational interviewing to increase commitment, or using solution-focused steps to build momentum quickly.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief, flexible check-ins and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the focus on real progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English