About Rachel
Rachel Knuehl is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Kentucky who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, parenting concerns, and ADHD. She uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people manage overwhelming feelings and day-to-day challenges. Rachel writes short, clear goals with clients and offers steady support through emotional ups and downs.
Her work often centers on helping caregivers and parents manage stress and relationship strain. She also supports people dealing with trauma, attachment struggles, mood problems, and communication breakdowns.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings to feel more in control of their reactions. Rachel brings eleven years of clinical experience to her practice and draws on proven therapeutic approaches. She focuses on small, manageable changes rather than big, sudden shifts.
Practical tools and simple routines are common parts of sessions so progress feels doable. People meet Rachel for a mix of talking, skill practice, and planning. She helps identify patterns that keep problems going and then tests new ways of coping.
Rachel encourages steady steps forward and checks in on how strategies are working over time. Her background includes work with trauma, parent-child interaction concerns, and mood disorders. Rachel keeps the work collaborative and clear, helping clients set realistic aims and track results week to week.
How her approaches work online
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills and recovery from trauma. One common approach focuses on skill building to manage anxiety and depression, teaching breathing, grounding, and structured behavioral steps to reduce overwhelm. Another approach involves trauma-focused work that helps people process difficult events and learn safer ways to respond to reminders or triggers. Both approaches use short, teachable practices that translate well to remote sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before recommending techniques. Together the client and therapist test methods and adjust the plan based on what feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face to face and practice skills in the moment. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick updates, brief coaching, and steady contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and changing workdays.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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