About Rachelle
Rachelle Salerno is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports individuals facing relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Rachelle aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and straightforward.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Rachelle emphasizes small, doable changes that build confidence over time.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses communication problems, workplace struggles, and the strain of divorce or separation. She also helps people coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, and questions about life purpose. Conversations are tailored to what each person needs that week.
Rachelle draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in clear, accessible language. She helps clients identify patterns, try new responses, and practice skills between meetings. The approach is collaborative and paced to match a person’s readiness.
People meet with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. These formats let sessions fit into busy lives and different schedules. Rachelle works from California and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Rachelle uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new, balanced ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach emphasizes practicing specific skills between sessions, such as calming techniques for panic attacks and exercises to improve communication in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which techniques match their needs, goals, and pace. Together they set realistic steps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations without traveling, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, and day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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