About Rachel
Rachel May is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She practices in Texas and works with people facing relationship strain, grief, self-esteem struggles, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental.
She aims to help clients find practical ways to cope and move forward. Rachel spent much of her career in psychiatric hospital settings. That work exposed her to a wide range of concerns and taught her how to respond to intense situations.
Background and approach
She draws on that background when a client needs steady structure or a clear plan. She uses a mix of therapies to match each person's needs. Rachel offers treatment plans that balance skills, values-based work, and exploration of attachment patterns.
Sessions often include concrete tools clients can practice between meetings. In the room she listens first, then offers options and resources. She encourages people to name their goals, try approaches, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Her approach is practical rather than theoretical. Many clients come for help with anxiety, coping skills, and managing addictive behaviors. She also supports work on relationship dynamics, parenting strain, body image, and career stress.
Rachel provides coaching-style guidance alongside therapeutic work to help people reach daily goals and longer term changes.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them even when hard thoughts or feelings show up. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood. It’s commonly used for anxiety, depression, and managing addictive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as sessions progress to match what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction when a more conversational session is needed. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging can be easier for quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when someone wants to write out thoughts instead of speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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