About Rachel
Rachel Francis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience providing one-on-one mental health care in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Rachel draws on a mix of practical strategies and steady emotional support to help clients find relief and clearer direction.
Her background includes work with people who have faced trauma, abuse, caregiving strain, cancer-related concerns, and issues linked to military service.
How Rachel works
She also addresses relationship and communication problems, codependency, commitment concerns, and problems with self-esteem or anger. This range gives her experience with both sudden crises and long-term struggles. Rachel’s style is client-centered and collaborative.
Sessions aim to strengthen what already works for a person while building new coping skills. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches alongside attachment-focused ideas to help people understand patterns and try different choices. Therapy sessions are conversational and practical.
Rachel helps clients set small, doable goals and checks progress each step of the way. She prioritizes creating a calm, steady space where people can talk through pain, make sense of their reactions, and practice new responses. People who reach out can expect direct guidance, structured skills practice, and attention to emotional experience.
Rachel supports clients as they deal with life transitions, rebuild after loss, or work to reduce daily overwhelm and grow more confidence.
Rachel lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Rachel works with
The areas below are the ones Rachel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses. It can help people see recurring habits and learn new ways to relate and respond when they feel triggered.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking through short exercises and behavioral experiments.
Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity. It can be useful for managing stress, compassion fatigue, and ongoing worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. She adjusts strategies as progress is made and as life circumstances change.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Different therapeutic methods translate well to remote work, and licensed professionals can lead skills practice, guided exercises, and reflective conversation through virtual sessions.
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