About Rachel
Rachel Bentley is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience. She practices in Arizona and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and life changes. Rachel uses straightforward, relationship-focused work to help people feel steadier and more connected in daily life.
Rachel draws on attachment and object relations ideas to explain how early relationships shape current reactions. She helps clients see patterns that keep them stuck and learn different ways of relating.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through thoughts and behaviors and trying practical skills to change how someone responds in close relationships. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas to manage strong emotions and shift unhelpful thinking. Rachel also integrates emotionally-focused work to strengthen bonds and improve communication with important people.
She aims to help people name patterns, practice new responses, and use their strengths to move forward. Rachel's background spans school-based counseling, group homes, addiction services, and adult residential programs. Those roles gave her experience with a wide range of issues such as trauma, addiction, parenting strain, and family conflict.
This variety informs a flexible, practical approach in sessions. She prioritizes an empowering style that focuses on building coping skills and clearer communication. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is checked regularly.
Outside of work she is active in her children’s school and sports activities.
How relational approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to help people notice attachment patterns and try different ways of connecting with partners or family members. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions CBT uses clear exercises and simple skill practice to reduce anxiety, shift thinking, and change unhelpful behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative conversation helps tailor a mix of relational work and skill-based techniques so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for working on emotional connection and communication. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer a way to get quick support between sessions or to practice skills in the moment. These options make therapy more flexible and fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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