About Rachel
Rachel Stankus is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with three years of professional experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress and helps people handling workplace strain, relationship concerns, and major life changes. Rachel is straightforward and calm in sessions, offering practical support for day-to-day coping and problem solving.
She tailors conversations and plans to each person. In the room she listens closely, helps name patterns that cause stress, and offers steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative - she works with each person to find what actually helps them feel steadier. Rachel has worked with people facing compassion fatigue, panic attacks, and challenges tied to bipolar disorder. She also supports those dealing with social anxiety, self-esteem struggles, and first responder issues.
Her background includes helping clients with addiction, trauma and abuse, career difficulties, and depression. Sessions are intended to be practical and goal-oriented. She uses everyday language and focuses on skills that can be used right away.
Rachel emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping people build habits that reduce anxiety and improve functioning. People who reach out are guided through a short matching process and scheduling. Rachel offers several remote session formats to fit different needs.
She aims to make starting therapy as simple as possible for someone taking that first step.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach helps people identify patterns that trigger anxiety and then practice new responses over time; this is useful for panic attacks and social anxiety. Another approach emphasizes building coping tools and routines to manage stress, compassion fatigue, and workplace pressures; it teaches small changes that reduce daily overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel will ask about goals, what has helped before, and what feels doable. Together the therapist and client experiment with strategies and adjust the plan based on what works and what doesn’t, so the process fits the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how you connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick support, shorter reflections, or when writing is easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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