Rachel May , LCSW

Rachel May is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. She works with individuals facing mood challenges, trauma, and life transitions, and she often supports people with women’s issues, body image, and parenting strain. Rachel aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for everyday life.

Her background includes work in psychiatric hospital settings, where she helped people stabilize during intense crises. That experience shaped how she plans treatment and how she responds when someone is in distress. She draws on several well-known approaches to match the work to each person’s needs.

Rachel describes her style as nonjudgmental and down-to-earth. Sessions are a place to talk honestly about what’s happening, try new ways of coping, and get small, realistic steps toward change. She offers guidance, hands-on suggestions, and resources to support progress between meetings.

Therapy with Rachel is collaborative. She builds a plan with each person instead of following a one-size-fits-all script. That plan can include techniques for managing emotions, improving relationships, or addressing addictive behaviors depending on the concern.

People who choose Rachel often want clear tools and steady support. She works with issues such as depression, ADHD, intimacy-related problems, compassion fatigue, and eating or body image struggles. Her Texas practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help when worry, avoidance, or low motivation get in the way of daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust and is useful for intimacy issues, abandonment fears, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and problem behaviors.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative process makes it possible to blend techniques so sessions match what feels most useful for the client’s situation.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls approximate an in-person meeting and are good for deeper conversations. Phone sessions or live chat can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or to work through smaller steps between live sessions. These options let people access licensed professionals from wherever they are in Texas while keeping scheduling flexible and practical.