About Rachael
Rachael Bailey greets people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She aims to make the first conversations easy to manage. Rachael listens for practical concerns and helps identify small changes that can make daily life feel steadier.
Rachael is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - and also holds the CSW credential. She has five years of professional experience and offers straightforward help for stress, anxiety, depression, and mood challenges including bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with grief, trauma, addiction, and career or relationship strain. Her approach blends concrete skill work with attention to emotions. That can look like learning coping skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, practicing emotional awareness from attachment-focused work, or building distress tolerance tools from DBT.
She explains techniques in plain language and watches how they fit into everyday routines. Sessions focus on what matters now, such as improving communication, managing impulses, or reducing overwhelming emotions. Rachael can also help with issues tied to family of origin, adoption and foster care questions, codependency, and separation or divorce.
She works with clients to set realistic goals and track progress. People who prefer practical steps paired with emotional understanding tend to find her style useful. Rachael aims to be steady and direct while keeping the goals set by the person in therapy at the center of the work.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online care
Rachael often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different responses. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and practical problems by teaching skills to change patterns that keep someone stuck.She also draws from attachment-based therapy, which looks at how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. That work helps people understand connection needs, reduce isolation, and improve how they communicate about important emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps ensure the methods feel useful and fit a client's everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, more frequent contact and can work well for tracking progress between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to match therapy to work schedules, caregiving demands, and personal routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English