About Rachael
Rachael Izquierdo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of clinical experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth support for people coping with stress and anxiety. Her manner is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping visitors feel steadier and more able to handle day-to-day challenges.
Rachael focuses on a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship and communication problems, parenting strain, addiction struggles, and trauma and abuse. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, anger, and the ups and downs of life transitions.
Background and approach
She works with people who are navigating adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and young adult issues. Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused methods, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. Sessions typically involve listening, practical skill building, and small steps people can try between meetings.
Rachael aims to make therapy feel useful rather than overwhelming. She practices from Florida and conducts sessions in English. Rachael values work-life balance and brings that perspective into how she helps people set realistic goals for change.
Outside of practice, she spends time practicing yoga, cooking, and with her husband, children, and two dogs. If someone wants to explore starting therapy, Rachael asks people to use the site process to match and schedule a first meeting. That initial step helps determine if her style fits the person’s needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rachael uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make small, useful changes. Client-centered work means she listens with curiosity and helps people set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy when relationship patterns or communication are causing pain. That approach helps people notice emotions and change how they respond to each other. Together, these methods aim to reduce anxiety, strengthen relationships, and build daily coping skills in a practical way.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. During the first sessions she will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and then adapt methods that fit each person. That way the plan is realistic and matches what someone can use between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to allow flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or work break, and chat or messaging can be helpful for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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