About Rachel
Rachel Lopez De Castilla Wooden is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, or major life changes. She aims to support and empower clients as they take the first steps toward change.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the room.
How Rachel works
Sessions focus on identifying those strengths and building practical steps that fit daily life. Conversations are collaborative and paced to match what the client needs right now. Her work attends to relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and communication or codependency struggles. Practical skills for coping, clearer communication, and reconnecting with purpose are common areas of focus. Rachel uses approaches that center the client’s perspective, integrate mindfulness, and draw on narrative and solution-focused ideas.
She may also use elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are involved. The goal is to make therapy useful and relevant rather than abstract. People who choose her can expect a respectful, down-to-earth style.
She encourages gentle progress and small, measurable steps. Those interested in working together are asked to begin the intake process through the site’s Start Therapy flow.
Rachel lists 5 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. In practice this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, helps clarify values, and supports choice and agency during sessions. It is useful for building self-esteem and navigating life changes.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and sensations without judgment. These short practices can help reduce reactivity to stress and anxiety and improve emotion regulation during difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Sessions can blend elements of different approaches so the plan fits the client’s needs and pace.
Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are listed during the intake flow. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices so they work in everyday settings rather than only in the therapy room.
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A practical next step
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