About Rafaela
Rafaela DeSoto-Ray is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and the everyday problems that make life feel overwhelming. Rafaela aims to offer practical ideas each session that can be used between appointments.
She works with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleeping problems, anger, and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
She also has experience with developmental and behavioral concerns, neurological conditions, and caregiving stress. This breadth helps her tailor support to the person in front of her. Rafaela uses a flexible, client-centered style.
She listens first, then blends approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to match each person’s needs. Sessions often focus on concrete skills, small experiments, and steps that build on existing strengths. Her goal is to help people leave sessions with at least one useful idea to try.
She encourages clients to view themselves as experts in their own lives and to use therapy as a place to practice new ways of coping. Rafaela acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and she aims to make that first step feel meaningful. Rafaela practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English.
She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and daily demands.
How Rafaela Uses Talk Therapy Online
Rafaela combines client-centered listening with evidence-based tools to help people manage daily struggles and major life changes. Client-Centered Therapy means she starts by hearing a person’s story and priorities, then shapes sessions around what matters most to that person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavior changes to reduce distress and improve routines. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes practical steps and short-term goals so progress can be measured and celebrated.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rafaela will partner with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying a technique, reviewing what changed, and adjusting plans together so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online formats offer practical advantages for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief touchpoints into a busy day. These options support flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent even with shifting schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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