About Rachael
Rachael McKinnon is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood shifts, or life changes. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients build practical skills and steady routines.
She prefers to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard moments. Sessions use clear tools and simple language so clients can try things between meetings.
Background and approach
Rachael draws on skill-based methods that address thoughts, emotions, and behavior all at once. Her work often centers on anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, sleep problems, low self-esteem, career stress, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver strain.
Rachael pays attention to how life events and long-standing patterns interact in daily life. Therapy sessions include practical exercises for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and changing unhelpful habits. She blends mindfulness techniques with cognitive and behavioral strategies to reduce worry and improve coping.
The focus is on small steps that add up to better daily functioning. Rachael describes her style as collaborative and motivational. She helps people set concrete goals and tracks progress over time.
For those ready to try talk-based work that emphasizes skills and real-world practice, she offers steady, experienced guidance.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Rachael commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then move toward actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, daily routines, and what feels doable. The plan can change over time as progress or challenges become clearer.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow richer conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, or health demands while working on anxiety and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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