My journey

MEET RACHEL

I believe healing is both science and soul. A remembrance and a becoming. Discovering who you were before the world conformed you, releasing false narratives that obscure your truth, and moving towards the person you are meant to become.

For years, I approached healing just through the lens of psychology, and as a therapist, I witnessed something profound:

People don’t just struggle because they lack coping skills. They struggle because they’ve been separated from themselves.

Separated from their intuition, from their voice, from their truth, from the parts of themselves they learned were unsafe to express.

My work lives at the intersection of psychology, embodiment, nervous system healing, and intuition.

I work as an alchemist, helping others to transform their experiences and emotions into meaning and purpose. I enjoy bringing  authenticity, warmth, honesty, humor, and healing into these spaces. I use intuition, creativity, perspective, and hope to identify where you are stuck, and the potential of where you could go in your healing, while offering guidance for you to confidently take your next steps forward.

I help people understand the patterns that shaped them, while encouraging reconnection with the deeper wisdom that has always existed within them. Assisting them in reclaiming their identity, peace, and returning to their own inner authority.

Because healing isn’t just about understanding your story. It’s about becoming free enough to write a new one.

My intention is to create a space where you can dismantle systems and beliefs that no longer serve you, and where healing is not just about becoming someone new, but remembering who you’ve been all along.

WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE TO WORK WITH ME

People choose to work with me when they’re ready to be deeply seen, understood, and held through authentic growth. Those ready to integrate and embody what they learn.

Clients who thrive in this work are curious, reflective, and willing to actively engage in their own growth. They are not looking for someone to rescue them, but for a guide, collaborator, and witness as they reconnect with their own wisdom, capacity, and healing.

Many of the people I work with are sensitive, intuitive, neurodivergent, high-achieving, or recovering from environments that taught them to doubt themselves and over-give.

They are often the cycle breakers. Truth tellers with clear sight. The child that had to grow up too soon. The ones who spent years adapting to emotionally immature families, high-control systems, relational trauma, narcissistic dynamics, or chronic people-pleasing.

They learned how to survive. Now they’re learning how to live.

Because there is more to healing than symptom reduction. Healing is the process of returning to yourself, reclaiming your voice, and learning to trust yourself again. Creating a life that reflects who you truly are—not who you had to become to survive.

MY APPROACH & PHILOSOPHY

My path began in traditional mental health with a degree in Psychology and Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

I was fascinated by the ways our experiences shape who we become. I immersed myself in psychology, trauma treatment, attachment theory, symptom reduction for disorders, and helping clients understand the patterns that influenced their thoughts, emotions, and relationships.

Yet over time, I began to notice something.

Many people could intellectually understand their stories, still feel disconnected from themselves, and have limited growth. Insight alone wasn’t always enough. And that realization led me into my own deeper healing journey.

Over the past fifteen years, I have explored a wide range of healing modalities— as a practitioner and a participant. My personal and professional path has included: psychology models, somatic healing, nervous system work, meditation, mindfulness, ancestral exploration, spiritual practices, body-based healing, energy work, womb-centered healing, plant- based ceremonies, and cross-cultural approaches to wellness and transformation.

My approach is integrative and eclectic, drawing from evidence-based psychological models, while tailoring treatment to each client’s unique needs, strengths, and goals.

What I discovered was that healing is rarely one-dimensional. The mind matters. The body matters. Relationships matter. Experiences matter. Intuition matters. And often, true transformation occurs when we are willing to listen to all of them.

I believe in learning through both study and experience. Before I integrate a concept into my work, I approach it with curiosity, discernment, and a commitment to understanding it deeply. I am a lifelong student of healing—someone who values evidence, honors lived experience, and remains open to the wisdom that can emerge from many different traditions and perspectives.

Today, my work reflects that integration. I don’t just teach what I’ve learned. I teach what I’ve lived. I am a student first, practitioner second, and teacher third.

My goal is not to tell you what to believe, but to help you reconnect with your own truth, inner wisdom, and capacity for healing.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Rachel is a Licensed Professional Counselor that received a BA in Psychology from the University of Arkansas and a MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of North Texas.

She has worked in a variety of settings including: non-profit, crisis intervention, group therapy, community support for financial and medical illness needs, insurance case management, group and private practice, and life-coaching. Rachel served as the Intake Director for a Psychiatric Hospital for adult and geriatric populations in addition to founding a psycho-educational group for teen girls.

Specialized training and focus areas include: adhd, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, codependency, narcissistic abuse recovery, religious trauma and deconstruction, women’s issues (postpartum, peri and post menopause), families, adolescence, holistic treatment education, and energy work.

Types of modalities used but not limited to: talk therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-informed, attachment theory, adlerian, IFS, EFT, DBT, safe and sound protocol, mindfulness, animal assisted, strength-based, solution-focused, and sand tray therapy.

Rachel believes therapy should provide an environment of acceptance, collaboration, and encouragement. She is committed in empowering others to become enlightened in who they are, achieve personal goals, and find healing in a holistic manner. LGBTQ+ Affirming.