About Rachel
Rachel Kilgore is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with ten years of practice. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and life changes. Rachel aims to meet clients where they are and help them build skills they can use every day.
Her counseling style centers on the person in front of her. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Rachel also uses other evidence-based interventions tailored to each person’s situation. Rachel has worked across a range of settings, including jails, inpatient detox units, and outpatient programs. That range gives her a clear sense of how addiction, trauma, and mood concerns show up in daily life.
She brings that practical experience into sessions to help clients set achievable goals. Sessions focus on concrete steps and skill building. People often work on managing stress, coping with grief, addressing body image or eating concerns, and navigating relationship or family conflicts.
Rachel also supports people dealing with impulsivity, isolation, or the emotional fallout of separation and loss. Outside of work she enjoys exercise, time outdoors, and family activities. She encourages people to try a first session to see if her straightforward, skills-based approach feels like a good fit.
Practical approaches for online care
Rachel often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, depression, and many everyday struggles because it focuses on clear steps and homework-like practice.She also works from a person-centered stance, which means the conversation begins with what matters to the individual. That approach centers the client's goals and preferences while shaping the skills and exercises they try in sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will help clients decide which techniques match their goals, comfort level, and life circumstances. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible without changing the focus on skill building and practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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