Rachel Palmore , LPC

Rachel Palmore is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Alabama who focuses on helping people with women's issues and other life stresses. She brings about 20 years of experience to sessions and aims to make conversations calm and straightforward. Rachel uses a warm, practical style to help clients feel heard and understood.

She listens first to learn what matters most to each person. Then she works with them to set clear goals, using simple tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle relationship or parenting strains. Sessions emphasize emotional awareness and concrete steps clients can try between meetings.

Rachel draws on approaches such as client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral ideas to reframe unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to steady attention, and emotionally-focused techniques to get at core feelings. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods when people want to make specific changes or tackle a single problem quickly.

Her experience includes supporting people coping with grief, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career or life transitions. She pays attention to multicultural concerns, adoption and foster care issues, prejudice and discrimination, and seasonal affective disorder.

Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled in formats that fit different routines. Rachel aims to collaborate so clients leave with practical skills and a clearer path forward.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy centers on listening and following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. In an online session this means the therapist reflects what a person says, asks gentle questions, and helps prioritize the issues that matter most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through short exercises and practical homework. Online formats work well for CBT because assignments and thought records can be shared between sessions and reviewed together.

Rachel aims to find the best-fit approach collaboratively. She will talk with clients about their goals, routines, and preferences, then suggest a mix of methods to try. Clients often adjust the plan as they learn what feels most helpful and what fits their daily life.

Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier around work and family commitments. Video lets therapists read facial cues and body language, phone calls use less bandwidth, chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief coaching or ongoing reminders. These choices let people keep momentum between sessions and pick the format that matches their needs and schedule.