About Rachel
Rachel Trudell is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people through hard moments. She supports adults facing anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship challenges, and aims to help people build resilience and move forward. She offers a calm, compassionate approach and works collaboratively with each person.
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps, whether the priority is managing panic, rebuilding self-esteem, or navigating a major life change.
How Rachel works
She adapts to each person’s values, including faith-informed or secular perspectives when desired. Rachel often helps people who feel stuck by focusing on emotional awareness and small behavior changes. She addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation.
Her work includes support for divorce and separation, grief, and questions about life purpose. In sessions she guides conversations about boundaries, forgiveness, and self-love while helping people practice new ways of coping. Treatment planning emphasizes steady progress and real-world skills that can be used between meetings.
Rachel aims to help people move from shame and isolation toward connection and agency. She practices in New York and provides care in English. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking and follow the site’s instructions to begin the matching process.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches and what online work can look like
Rachel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and build skills. One common approach she employs emphasizes emotional awareness and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression; this helps people notice patterns and try small changes that make daily life easier. Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences and reducing their ongoing impact by developing coping tools and grounding skills that lower reactivity and improve sleep and daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow a shorter check-in on difficult days, and remove travel time so sessions are more consistent. Licensed professionals can also tailor session pacing to match life demands, such as scheduling around work breaks or using shorter meetings for focused problem-solving. Ask about formats when you start the matching process to make sure they match your needs.
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A practical next step
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