About Rachel
Rachel Dock is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She uses clear, practical methods to help clients feel steadier and more able to cope. Her work often centers on relationships and communication problems.
She supports people facing addiction, bipolar mood challenges, parenting strain, career concerns, anger, and low self-esteem. Sessions focus on everyday steps that make life more manageable.
Background and approach
Rachel spent several years in crisis work, including four years coordinating social services at a crisis stabilization unit. That role involved risk assessment, linking people to community resources, and short-term therapeutic intervention for adults and youth. She also has experience with foster youth and trauma-informed care from agency work earlier in her career.
Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses narrative ideas to help people reshape stories they tell about themselves.
Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. Rachel helps people set small, achievable goals and practices new skills in session. This is a straightforward space to talk through problems and build tools for handling daily stressors.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's priorities; it helps when someone needs a supportive place to sort out feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for stress, anxiety, and mood difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete strategies for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance and communication in tense moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with techniques. This may mean combining gentle listening with skill-building exercises or trying different tools and checking what helps over time.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video lets people work more like an in-person session, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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