About Rachel
Rachel Lahasky is a licensed clinical social worker in Mississippi with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and ADHD. Rachel approaches care with respect for each person's strengths and choices.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. Over her career she has helped people navigate relationship and intimacy concerns, workplace issues, and career frustration.
Background and approach
She also assists those dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and the emotional aftermath of natural or human-caused disasters. Common problems she addresses include anger, impulsivity, jealousy, and communication challenges. Rachel uses straightforward, goal-oriented methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and dialectical behavior ideas.
She mixes mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help clients build skills and stay motivated. Sessions tend to focus on steps people can try between meetings, so progress carries into daily life. Her approach centers on listening first, then planning small, achievable changes together.
She encourages practical strategies for mood management, coping with life changes, and improving relationships. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Rachel conducts sessions in English and practices across video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Rachel blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people clarify goals and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-centered work means she listens closely and helps clients use their own strengths to guide decisions and next steps. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and testing practical strategies that can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and support daily routines.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. DBT-informed skills include ways to tolerate distress, regulate strong feelings, and communicate more effectively during conflict. Rachel works collaboratively to find which mix of approaches fits each person's goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, skill reminders, or quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work into busy schedules while trying different therapeutic approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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