About Rachel
Rachel Felton is a licensed clinical social worker who centers body awareness and felt experience in therapy. Rachel combines somatic work with practical talk therapy to help people manage mood, trauma, and relationship struggles. They use clear, direct conversation and simple exercises in sessions so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
Rachel draws on 12 years of clinical experience in Washington. They have supported people facing depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Rachel also helps with concerns around identity and LGBT issues, self-esteem, and relationship patterns. Sessions are shaped to fit each person's life and goals. In practice Rachel blends somatic methods with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-focused techniques.
That means paying attention to how stress shows up in the body, clarifying values, and looking at how past connections affect present relationships. Work in sessions often includes grounding, breath awareness, and small behavioral experiments to change painful patterns. Rachel keeps language plain and avoids jargon.
They aim to make sessions feel like a steady conversation where people can try things and notice what helps. Clients set the pace and Rachel adjusts tools to match each situation. People interested in starting will find a straightforward intake process and a focus on real-life change.
Rachel respects each person’s identity and works from a place of sensitivity and practical support.
How Rachel blends body-based and acceptance approaches online
Somatic work focuses on how stress and emotion show up in the body. Rachel uses simple grounding and movement awareness to help people notice tension, regulate arousal, and reconnect with present sensations. This can help with trauma responses, chronic pain, and anxiety symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Sessions use mindfulness skills and practical exercises to reduce avoidance and build actions that fit a person’s life. Attachment-based approaches look at how early connection patterns shape current relationships and communication styles. Together these methods address mood, relationships, and identity concerns in a holistic way.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Rachel collaborates with each person to test approaches and adjust tools based on what feels effective. The goal is to create a personalized plan that fits goals and daily routines.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it possible to continue therapy from home, manage short-term check-ins, or use messaging for between-session support. The range of formats helps people fit therapy into busy lives and try techniques in everyday settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English