About Rachel
Rachel Giles is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of experience supporting adults. She offers a calm, accepting presence and focuses on practical steps people can use in day-to-day life. She often helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, or difficult life changes.
Career concerns, compassion fatigue, and struggles with self-esteem or purpose are also common topics in her work.
Background and approach
Rachel also supports people facing addictions and trauma-related concerns. Her style is warm, nonjudgmental, and interactive. Sessions are a mix of talking through what feels hard now and trying small, doable changes between meetings.
She draws on several approaches so each plan fits the person she is working with. In practice she emphasizes curiosity and collaboration. She asks questions, listens closely, and helps clients set clear goals.
She balances supportive listening with gentle challenges to encourage growth and new ways of handling problems. Rachel brings experience from nonprofit work and understands the stresses that come from demanding jobs and caregiving roles. She works with people to build coping skills, improve communication, and reconnect with values that matter.
Her aim is to help people feel more steady and able to move forward.
How Rachel’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening-first relationship. The therapist reflects what is said and helps clients find their own answers, which can help with self-esteem, life direction, and emotional processing.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses straightforward exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, challenge unhelpful thinking, and build coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help people stay calmer and respond differently to stress. These techniques are useful for anxiety, rumination, and managing strong emotions.
Rachel treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps most. This collaborative process helps narrow in on what feels most useful.
Online sessions let people meet from different locations and routines. Video calls are a close substitute for in-person conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging fit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options aim to make consistent therapy more flexible and to fit real life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English