About Rachel
Rachel Van Dyk is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience helping people through hard seasons. She listens closely and treats each conversation with respect and care. Rachel draws on a range of approaches to support people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship strain.
She earned a bachelor's in psychology and a master's in professional counseling from Liberty University. Early in her career she spent five years counseling college students.
Background and approach
Since then she has worked in two independent practice settings and provided telehealth appointments, building more than 3,000 face-to-face clinical hours. Rachel pays attention to the stories people bring. She looks at how past experiences shape present feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
That perspective is helpful for concerns like attachment issues, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related struggles. In sessions she blends attachment-based work, emotionally-focused ideas, and narrative techniques to help people name what matters and try different ways of responding. The focus is practical: notice patterns, practice new responses, and build more helpful habits for daily life.
Her aim is to help people gain confidence in their ability to cope and make choices that lead to a more hopeful future. Rachel supports people working through eating concerns, compassion fatigue, family conflict, and other life changes.
How attachment and emotion-focused approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people relate now. Online work can help spot repeating patterns in relationships and try new ways of connecting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotional experience beneath conflict and distress. It helps people name feelings and shift interactions that keep them stuck.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the problems they face by retelling their story and finding alternative meanings. These approaches are useful for anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and difficulties tied to past hurt. Rachel draws on attachment, emotionally-focused, and narrative ideas to tailor support to each person's needs and history.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try things, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief reflections, or steady support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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