About Rachel
Rachel Palmore is a licensed professional counselor in Alabama who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and mood concerns. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps that fit everyday life. Her style is warm and respectful, with an emphasis on helping clients name feelings and find what works for them.
With nearly 20 years of experience, Rachel draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape each session.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered conversation to build trust and understand what matters most to the person in front of her. She also blends cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful patterns. Rachel uses emotionally-focused methods to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships.
Mindfulness techniques are included to teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and stay on track. She has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, parenting strains, adoption and foster care issues, and identity-related stress such as multicultural concerns and prejudice.
Rachel also supports clients dealing with seasonal affective disorder, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and career or life transitions. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical. Rachel often offers tools to try between meetings and checks in on progress.
People who want clear guidance with room to explore feelings may find her approach useful.
Approach and online session options
Rachel often uses client-centered work to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s priorities guide each session. This approach helps people clarify what they want to change and feel heard while deciding next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and practice new, more effective ways of responding. CBT techniques can be useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because they break problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Rachel will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on the client’s goals and preferences. This gives people a chance to test what helps most rather than committing to a single path up front.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support, and all formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. These options help people keep momentum between meetings and access therapy from different settings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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