About Rachel
Rachel Ehrhardt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices from Pennsylvania and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, grief, and life transitions. Rachel aims to be direct and practical in sessions, teaching skills people can use right away.
She frames therapy around everyday thoughts and choices. Rachel emphasizes how thinking patterns shape feelings and behavior, and she teaches ways to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused work to identify clear next steps when someone is ready to make changes quickly. Her background includes many years in substance use treatment and work in a range of settings such as inpatient units and community programs. Those experiences shaped a straightforward style and a willingness to address hard topics like addiction, anger, and family conflict.
Rachel describes herself as an educator who gives concrete tools alongside emotional support. In couples work she draws on relationship-focused approaches to help people improve communication and rebuild connection. She also addresses parenting concerns, postpartum mood changes, and issues around intimacy and self-worth.
Sessions typically mix short-term problem solving with attention to longer-term patterns. Rachel offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She speaks English and works with adults seeking practical, skills-based help for anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and life changes.
Approaches that guide online work and relationship repair
Rachel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them against evidence, and trying new thinking and behaviors to see what helps.She also uses elements of the Gottman Method and Imago ideas when working on relationships. These approaches teach specific communication skills, help partners understand recurring patterns, and offer practical exercises to rebuild trust and connection.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past, and then tailor techniques to fit those needs. She blends skill teaching and solution-focused steps with attention to deeper patterns when it helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship and emotion work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or recovery routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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