About Raquel
Raquel Colbert-Dawson is a licensed professional counselor with 12 years of experience helping people sort through life’s challenges. She works with individuals who want to change habits, feel better about themselves, or manage stress and anxiety. Raquel speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her approach centers on listening first and then building skills together. She uses client-centered practices to understand each person’s experience. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Raquel often helps people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem problems, and big life transitions. She also supports those facing aging and geriatric concerns, end-of-life topics, and struggles like panic attacks or social anxiety. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and increase clearer decision-making.
In sessions the work is goal-focused and collaborative. She will help set clear steps and check progress along the way. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to build coping skills and to find concrete next steps between meetings.
Raquel is licensed as an LPC in Oklahoma and has spent more than a decade in clinical practice. She treats each person with respect and sensitivity and encourages commitment to growth and change. If someone is ready to take active steps, she helps map a path forward and supports them through the process.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Raquel uses client-centered work to begin each online session by hearing what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on understanding a person’s perspective and building collaborative goals, which helps guide remote conversations about coping and change.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In online sessions CBT can be used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice new behaviors between meetings, useful for anxiety, panic symptoms, and low self-esteem.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Raquel will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life to determine which methods to emphasize. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or needs change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a call fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing accountability, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English