About Rachel
Rachel Knudson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with trauma, grief, anger, and depression. Rachel emphasizes clients' strengths and works alongside them as they make changes.
She believes people know their own stories best and brings a practical, respectful approach to sessions. Conversations focus on what feels most pressing and what small steps could make life easier.
Background and approach
The tone is collaborative and down-to-earth, with clear goals and steady support. Rachel has worked with a range of concerns connected to mood and trauma, including issues such as attachment struggles, dissociation, substance use, domestic violence, and problems with control or codependency. She also addresses body image, emptiness, and relationship patterns that cause repeated pain.
Her background helps her notice patterns and offer straightforward strategies to handle them. Sessions aim to teach coping skills, create moments of relief, and clarify next steps when problems feel overwhelming. Rachel encourages people to try approaches that fit their daily life and values, not one-size-fits-all solutions.
Her work is practical and paced to each person's comfort. People work with Rachel by choosing what matters most to them and testing changes in small, manageable ways. She offers multiple ways to connect and tailors support to each person's goals and routines.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and understanding patterns. One common approach she uses teaches coping and stress-management skills to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning; this helps when worry, panic, or constant tension are getting in the way of normal routines. Another strand of her work centers on processing trauma and abuse by helping people make sense of painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life through paced, supportive conversation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel works with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts plans as people try out new skills and see what helps most in their real life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging make brief check-ins or stepwise work possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit it into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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