Rachel Giles , LCSW

Rachel Giles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She has worked with people facing career challenges in the nonprofit sector and with a wide range of relationship and intimacy concerns. Rachel centers her work on respect, patience, and practical support.

Her style is warm and accepting. Sessions are interactive and nonjudgmental. She encourages curiosity and small, steady steps toward change.

Rachel mixes methods to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in front of her. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build more helpful habits.

Mindfulness and motivational techniques appear when helpful to strengthen focus and resolve. She also brings psychodynamic ideas to notice recurring patterns that affect relationships and choices.

People often come for help with self-esteem, career decisions, grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those dealing with communication problems, commitment concerns, guilt and shame, and other women's issues.

Rachel aims to make therapy practical and relatable. She helps people set clear goals, try manageable experiments between sessions, and track progress over time. The work emphasizes trust, exploration, and realistic change.

How Rachel Uses Therapy Methods Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on hearing what matters to the person and following their lead to set goals and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive, respectful space to make sense of feelings and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, self-esteem work, and coping with life changes.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase clarity. Those skills can help with stress, emotional regulation, and building new routines.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick what fits their goals, preferences, and pace. That process can change over time as needs shift.

Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exploration. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short conversations into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.