Rachel Grant , AASW

Rachel Grant is an AASW social worker with three years' experience supporting people through trauma, anxiety, depression and parenting challenges. She uses a trauma-informed, neuro-affirming style that focuses on helping people feel steadier in their bodies and relationships. Rachel speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone at a difficult moment.

Her work blends approaches that start with regulating the nervous system and then build on attachment and relationship patterns. That means practical grounding exercises, breath and movement techniques, and talk that helps make sense of past hurts. Rachel also attends to structural dissociation and the ways trauma can show up in daily life.

She often helps people who are managing low self-esteem, overwhelming shame, isolation or grief related to adoption and family separation. She also supports carers dealing with stress and the specific challenges of blended families. Rachel takes a multicultural, non-judgemental stance and adapts to each person's cultural background and life story.

Sessions aim to be paced to what a person can handle. Rachel works with clear, step-by-step goals and practical skills between sessions. People can expect a steady, approachable style that combines movement-based regulation with reflective conversation.

Rachel provides online options from Australia in English and does not take international clients. Therapy is arranged through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and session format choices include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Rachel works from evidence-based, body-focused techniques that help reduce overwhelm. One approach she uses centres on nervous system regulation - simple grounding, breath and gentle movement practices that calm intense physical reactions and make it easier to think clearly. This helps with anxiety, panic and stress responses.

She also draws on attachment-informed work that looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape feelings and self-worth. That approach is useful for improving self-esteem, addressing family-of-origin issues and working through abandonment or adoption-related themes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy journey. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and will collaborate on selecting techniques and pace. This makes the process flexible and tailored rather than fixed.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of grounding exercises. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, written reflections and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, while keeping the focus on practical, step-by-step change.