About Rachael
Rachael Figueroa is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She draws on long experience to help people talk through grief, anger, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and problems with sleep. She takes a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions.
Conversations are shaped around what the person needs right now. Plans are practical and aimed at small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Rachael uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also supports emotional processing and helps people build compassion for themselves. Mindfulness practices are offered when they fit a person's goals and daily routine.
Across 25 years of practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including addiction, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also assists people facing adoption or foster care issues, abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and cancer-related challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish from her New York practice.
She adapts the pace and style to each person's comfort level and focuses on clear steps people can take between sessions. Rachael aims to make the first steps feel doable and to help clients keep moving forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and adapting to what each person says matters most. In online sessions this means the therapist follows your lead, helps you set goals, and adjusts pace and tone to fit your needs.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. It works well over video or messaging because you can practice short exercises between sessions and discuss results in the next meeting.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and process strong feelings and build better emotional regulation. That work can be done through conversation and guided exercises in an online setting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachael will collaborate with clients to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods when something is not working.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or days when a shorter contact helps. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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