About Rachel
Rachel Carlos is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with nine years of clinical experience. She centers her work on practical support for stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Rachel emphasizes self-acceptance and helps people build stronger coping skills in everyday life.
She has a background in social work and nonprofit operations, including oversight of clinical case management. That experience shaped a calm, organized approach to care and a focus on what helps a person right now.
Background and approach
Rachel’s past roles included work with people involved in foster care and juvenile justice systems, which informs her understanding of complex life histories. In sessions she draws on Client-Centered methods and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support change and Mindfulness practices to reduce immediate stress.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make skills usable between sessions. Rachel works with concerns like grief, parenting stress, relationship friction, compassion fatigue, body image, and postpartum depression. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, and multicultural identity questions.
Conversations focus on realistic steps toward better day-to-day functioning. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are offered in English and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect people with a time that works for them.
How Rachel’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s goals guide each session. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and build trust before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions, and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and low mood because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the nervous system and reduce reactivity. These techniques can help with immediate panic, ongoing worry, and managing strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process shapes whether sessions lean more toward CBT skills, mindfulness practice, or a client-centered conversation.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit treatment into a busy life. Video calls let therapy feel most like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or managing stress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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