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Compassionately caring for yourself and others is to gently, lovingly open to the struggle or suffering you are holding as well as to the joy and awe in everyday life so you can skillfully process your emotions, build resilience, and live mindfully. Rachel holds space for rest and refuge where growth, change, grieving and healing can happen.

Rachel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years professional experience and a lifetime of dedication to nurturing the soil for all human beings to feel belonging, dignity, and flourishing. She employs a person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-sensitive approach to collaborate with adults to nourish their innate wisdom and resilience so they can show up authentically and compassionately - for themselves, in their work, in their relationships, and in their communities. Using a combination of Compassion-Focused Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reorientation (EMDR) Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rachel guides clients to discover and develop the resources they need to address unconscious beliefs and behaviors that are holding them back from living in alignment with their values and purpose.

Rachel helps to heal wounds, new and old, and to nurture the wisdom, curiosity, and love that lies within each of us. As a therapist, Rachel is warm and non-judgmental, patient and loving, with a dose of humor sprinkled in. She provides a space where healing can happen, a space where you can feel safe to open to and process difficult emotions and experiences so that you can live fully and authentically.

Insurance & Payment

Rachel is an in-network provider with the following insurance plans:

Aetna*
BCBS North Carolina
Cigna
Oscar Health
Oxford
United Healthcare
Medicare

As of 1/14/25, Rachel is not in-network with Aetna Marketplace plans but anticipates in-network coverage beginning 3/1/25.

If you would like to pay out-of-pocket, the fee is $165 for a 55-minute session. Sliding scale is offered on a limited basis.

Relevant Certifications and Trainings

Responding to a Disaster Using EMDR Early Intervention Protocols (2024)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR, 2024)
Relax and Renew® Level 1 Restorative Yoga teacher training (2023)
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Pregnancy Loss (2023)
Maternal Mental Professional Certificate Training (2023)
200-hour Trained Yoga Teacher through Lead with Compassion Yoga Teacher Training (2022)
Trained Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher (2021)
Transformative Educational Leadership (2021-2022)
Ruth King Racial Affinity Group Development Program (now called Brave Space); (2021-2022)
Co-Developer and Lead Author of the Be CALM Program and curriculums for Middle and High Schoolers (2019)
Learning to BREATHE Mindfulness Curriculum for Teens Intensive Teacher Training (2018)
Mindful Educators Essentials Course, Mindful Schools (2018)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course, Duke Integrative Medicine (2018)
Certified The Incredible Years® Small Group Dina Child Treatment Program Teacher (2017)
The Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management Training (2016)
Experienced Teacher of The Incredible Years® BASIC Parenting Program
North Carolina Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2011

Going inward requires vulnerability, trust, and patience.

I would be honored to walk alongside you on this journey.

Rachel has walked alongside people experiencing profound transitions and loss as well as hope and joy. She believes that sorrow and happiness exist on a continuum and that holding space for both is essential for living a balanced life while also recognizing how difficult and lonely it can feel to hold that space for sorrow.

She works to help people gently, lovingly open to the struggle or suffering they are holding, so they can skillfully process their emotions.

Her professional and personal experiences moving compassionately and patiently through the muck in life have revealed deep beauty on the other side.