About Rachel
Rachel Lahasky is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of professional experience in Mississippi. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and build motivation and self-esteem. Rachel emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and sees clients as the experts in their own lives.
Rachel's work often addresses parenting concerns, workplace trauma, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles. She also helps people navigate major life changes, caregiving stress, and the emotional fallout after natural or human-caused disasters.
Background and approach
Her practice includes attention to mood concerns such as depression and postpartum depression as well as issues like impulsivity and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she listens first and then offers practical strategies tailored to each person. She draws from methods that focus on thoughts, emotions, and present-moment skills to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
The aim is to build small, useful changes that fit daily life. People who reach out can expect straightforward discussion, goal-focused work, and support as they try new skills. Rachel frames progress as a gradual process and works at a pace that matches each person's needs.
She encourages clients to use their own strengths as a foundation for change. Her background in social work informs a broad view of how life events and roles affect well-being. Rachel practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches for online stress and anxiety care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotional regulation and coping skills for intense feelings and relationship challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, needs, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. Changes are tried step by step and adjusted based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and schedule permit. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work around low bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow ongoing contact and brief check-ins between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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