Are you chronically disappointed? Dissatisfied with your job or relationship? Bored with your life? Feeling that you are not reaching your potential? Worried all the time about getting it all done or being good enough? Is fear holding you back from being your best self and having all you want in life? Are you feeling inadequate and self-critical? Are you wondering why am I alive? What is the purpose of my life? What does my life mean? Are you wanting a passionate and purpose-filled life?

Hello! I am Rachel, and I am a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and child mental health specialist. I work with children, teens, and adults, offering both individual and family therapy. I specialize in working with clients who have autism, anxiety/panic disorder, and ADHD. I also support clients experiencing depression, sensory integration, phobias, OCD, adjustment disorders, grief/loss, and trauma. I partner with clients seeking to strengthen their stress/coping skills, skills-building, child/parent relationships, communication skills, self-care, and esteem/self-acceptance. I welcome LGBTQ+ identifying clients.

My primary goal as a psychologist is to help the client work towards reducing their suffering and enhancing their health and resiliency. I work with adults that may be experiencing a variety of challenges including increased stress, anxiety, depression, anger management, and trauma recovery. I provide psychological assessments for a variety of complaints, and ground my counseling work in scientific, evidence-based interventions such as Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Clinical Hypnosis training, and various mindfulness-based interventions.

Life can be hard. Lonely. Confusing. Painful. As woman, we are called on to do a lot and to be a lot - often at the expense of our own health and well-being. When loss or a major life transition occur, it can become too much to handle. Overwhelm floods in. We can reach a breaking point. Are you struggling to function well in your daily life, plagued by sleepless nights, physical discomforts, illness, apathy … just going through the motions of living? Do you worry your relationships are being impacted too much by nagging bad moods or angry outbursts? It doesn't have to be this way. You don't have to do this alone. I can help.

If you experience insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks, fatigue, sudden anger, anxiety or depression and feel it is time to get control back, call me. I strive to create a supportive environment and work with you to come up with a plan that addresses your concerns where you are right now. I believe everyone has strengths and that sometimes people become so overwhelmed they lose sight of themselves. I'm a guide that helps you find your way back and encourages you to keep moving forward.

As a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and long-standing patterns. With sensitivity and compassion, I help clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues.

"What is within you that longs to come forth, what waits for you to say Yes?" In my work with clients we work together as a team to create a mutual, shared space of compassion, caring and healing. In this space, problems are explored together, losses and hurts are held together. Where there is trauma, it is transformed through bodily-centered somatic therapy and EMDR. I bring a wide array of therapeutic techniques, from ancient wisdom traditions to cutting edge neurobiology, to support your healing and provide practical skills for reaching your goals. Whatever difficulties you face - healing is the rule, not the exception.

I work from a person-centered approach that draws from other theoretical techniques designed to address your individual needs and goals. The process of counseling is to understand you as a unique person; explore and gain insight into your thoughts, feelings, experiences, and behavior; and enhance quality of life by implementing parts of the counseling process into your daily living. Our therapeutic relationship will be collaborative and we will work together towards setting and meeting your counseling goals.

Life presents many challenges. Our 23 licensed clinical psychologists, social workers, marriage & family therapists and mental health counselors at Peninsula Psychological Center, Inc., P.S. are ready to assist you. We work with people from age 3-90, with experienced therapists in our multispecialty center, helping our clients and their families to clarify their specific concerns and to achieve their goals in therapy. We often help people with depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, panic, grief, insomnia & relationship problems. Individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, and psychological assessment services are available.

I counsel couples and families through a variety of life-stages, helping them find well-being in their changing roles. Dedicated to working through the entire therapeutic process with you and those you love, I create a time and place for couples and families to explore their challenges and find acceptance, appreciation and gratitude for each family member. I believe that acceptance in the face of struggle and transformation is the first step for change and healing. I offer clear and compassionate guidance to you so that you may become gentle, kind witnesses of yourselves and others.

I see individuals with anxiety, depression, phobias, and with histories of trauma, (including service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq). I use EMDR combined with other client-centered therapies. What is most important, however, is that your therapy is tailored to your individual needs and does not follow a strict set of guidelines. Using a humanistic and transpersonal approach, we explore how longstanding beliefs and values affect how you feel about yourself and about the choices you make. We will identify and eliminate your "stumbling blocks" so that you feel in control of your destiny.

I believe that all of us have the ability to be great, but there are challenges that get in the way. My passion is to help you realize who you are and what you can accomplish despite those challenges. I want to motivate and help you to do the work you need to be a better person, spouse, partner, parent, or friend. I know that we all have things going on, my goal is to be there for you through it, good or bad. Building you up or being there through a tough time that's what therapy is for.

For 25 years, I've worked with clients to support healing around trauma, marriage/partnering, sexuality, grief, depression/anxiety, addictions. Using Somatic Experiencing, family of origin, meditation/movement work, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Internal Family Systems, I work with clients to help them develop a deeper sense of self, to face life's inevitable challenges with clarity and resources. Clients can repair their marriages/partnerships. Emphasized is the capacity to stay emotionally present, to attune, differentiate, have healthy boundaries, practice dual awareness and have clarity about attachment issues.

The pandemic is imposing great stress upon us all. Accordingly, I am rededicating my practice to deal with the increase in anxiety, depression, conflict, and isolation in our homes and communities. With renewed emphasis on Jungian depth psychology and somatic therapy, I am vested in helping clients find deeper tranquility, clarity, and relief from emotional anguish and personal loss. Despite the darkness and uncertainty of our time, I believe psychotherapy can be a powerful tool in cultivating inspiration and vitality, which are essential for personal growth and healing. I am currently accepting new clients.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience working with children, teens, young adults, adults and families. I specialize in evaluating and treating clients with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety problems, and school problems. I work together with clients and their families to clarify their specific concerns and to achieve their goals, often using cognitive behavioral, behavioral, and/or family interventions.

If you are a woman in transition, or are feeling disheartened, depressed or stuck, I will give you assistance in identifying and uncovering your strengths, and recovering your joy of life! Or, if you are a member of a couple or family having difficulties, I will offer support and teach communication skills, which can deepen and enhance those relationships closest to you. It is often difficult to identify our stuck places and painful patterns. I have found that talking things through with someone with sound professional training and experience can offer new perspectives and life possibilities, allowing change to happen!

Are you getting divorced or remarried and wondering how your children will handle the changes? Are you and your spouse missing that connection that used to come so easily? Let me help. I work with couples and families in transition or crisis so that they can stabilize and establish new, healthy norms. I believe everyone is the expert in his or her own life. I will respect your life experiences and help you and your family through this challenging leg of your journey.

I meet with individuals, couples, families, and run groups. I generally work with folks who complain of depression, anxiety, grief and loss, stress management, anger management, trauma/PTSD, interpersonal conflict, parenting challenges, spiritual challenges, frustration tolerance, and some health challenges to include nicotine addiction. I also provide in-home nursing-aid care, DD respite care, and tutoring. A client is encouraged to boldly explore their own thoughts and emotions in a safe, warm and collaborative therapeutic environment and find new solutions, skills, insight and awareness around life's challenges, both within the person and the persons' life experience

The goal of psychotherapy is to make important positive changes in your life. Research demonstrates that Evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy can successfully reduce stress, anxiety, worry, anger, and depression. Positive behavioral change increases optimism by adding healthy activities and people to your life. Evidence-based treatment allows you to understand and manage how your mood/emotions, thoughts/beliefs, behavior/lifestyle, and body work together. The emphasis of treatment is learning a variety of skills to successfully manage your emotions, your behavior, feel better, and improve the quality of your life.