About Rachael
Rachael Mooney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and aims to help clients feel heard and understood from the first conversation.
Rachael earned a Master of Social Work from The University of Georgia and holds licensure in Georgia as an LCSW and in South Carolina as an LISW-CP.
Background and approach
She has four years of clinical experience supporting people through life changes and emotional challenges. Her approach draws on client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and mindfulness practices. In practical terms that means she listens for what matters most, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns, and teaches skills for managing intense emotions and intrusive thoughts.
Rachael also pays attention to attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and issues like obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, and seasonal mood shifts. Sessions typically focus on small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings to build momentum. She aims to make therapy collaborative and straightforward.
Goals are set together and adjusted as needs change. The overall focus is on helping people gain clearer perspective, reduce distressing symptoms, and find more steady ways of coping.
Approaches and how online sessions can help
Rachael uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes straightforward exercises and homework that target anxiety, panic, and depressive thinking patterns.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal communication. DBT-style tools can be useful for managing intense feelings and improving day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy here can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use the tools learned in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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