About Rachael
Rachael Woods is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience based in Alaska. She focuses on helping people handle anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and related challenges. Rachael listens without judgment and helps clients find practical steps that fit their lives.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts with understanding each person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work when people want to change patterns of thinking or behavior.
Background and approach
She also draws on EMDR for trauma-related concerns and uses Motivational Interviewing to support changes like cutting back substance use or quitting smoking. Rachael has worked with many people across a wide range of issues, including grief, sleeping problems, ADHD, mood disorders, panic, social anxiety, and eating concerns. She adapts tools from solution-focused therapy when clients want short-term, goal-oriented work.
Her experience includes helping people navigating adoption and foster care issues and those recovering from drug and alcohol problems. Sessions can be offered in English or Spanish, and she provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. Rachael aims to be a steady, compassionate guide while clients work toward clearer thinking and healthier habits.
How Rachael blends approaches for online care
Rachael uses Client-Centered Therapy to start by hearing what matters most to each person and to build a comfortable working relationship. This approach is about listening, reflecting, and helping clients set the goals that feel right for them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills people can use between sessions. For clients working through trauma, she may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address distress tied to specific memories and reduce their emotional intensity.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Rachael works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. That way the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging lets people check in between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent even with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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