About Rachel
Rachel May is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twelve years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She works with adults facing mood struggles, relationship strain, and identity questions. Sessions are straightforward and focused on real problems people bring to therapy.
Rachel draws on experience from psychiatric settings and community care to shape practical plans. She blends approaches rather than using a single method, so each plan matches the person in front of her.
Background and approach
That can mean learning new ways to handle strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thoughts, or building clearer communication skills. Her style is non-judgmental and collaborative. She offers guidance and concrete tools while inviting clients to set the pace and goals.
People who prefer clear steps and real-world strategies often find this approach helpful. Rachel also pays attention to patterns that show up in relationships and attachment. She helps people understand old wounds and how those patterns affect current choices.
Working on those patterns can change how someone connects, sets boundaries, and manages closeness. Practical matters are part of the work too. Rachel discusses coping skills for day-to-day stress, strategies for managing cravings or impulsive behavior, and ways to handle burnout or compassion fatigue.
She helps clients track progress and adjust plans as needs change.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful habits and reduce distress. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships influence current connection and trust, helping people recognize patterns that affect intimacy and communication.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and what feels useful. Together they pick or combine methods, adjust the plan over time, and track what is working so sessions stay focused on practical progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and focused skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, momentary coaching, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping the same therapeutic approaches intact.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English