About Kristi
Kristi Rachal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people navigate addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and parenting stress. She also supports clients facing intimacy and sexual culture questions, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, and work-related burnout. Her tone is down-to-earth and straightforward so conversations feel natural and focused.
Kristi draws on more than 23 years of experience across prisons, hospitals, home health, hospice, and independent practice. That background means she has seen a wide range of life disruption and loss.
Background and approach
She has worked with veterans and active duty military members and has provided services related to sex offender treatment, anger management, and addictions counseling. Her sessions are informal and practical. She aims to make people feel at ease while holding them accountable for change.
Therapy moves toward solutions and concrete skills rather than long, theoretical discussion. Kristi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to manage stress and Solution-Focused techniques to set and reach short-term goals.
Together these methods support clearer choices and daily coping skills. People who come to Kristi can expect straightforward guidance, skill-building, and a focus on real-world results. She works from Louisiana and conducts sessions in English using a variety of online formats.
Her credential is OR LCSW L15071 and LA LCSW 8246.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kristi uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing addictive or impulsive patterns.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve emotional regulation. Mindfulness exercises are helpful for stress, rumination, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristi will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and have a more traditional session. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break from work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to communicate when a written check-in feels most helpful. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to schedule and maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Oregon
- Languages
- English