About Rachel
Rachel Pehrson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years of experience as a psychotherapist. She draws on years in community mental health, primary care and pain clinics, homeless shelters, and outpatient substance use treatment to help people facing complex problems. Her approach is warm and interactive, aimed at practical progress rather than labels.
She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with chronic pain, illness, or major life changes. Many clients seek help for relationship and communication struggles or difficulties with self-esteem and boundaries. Rachel uses Somatic therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, and client-centered work.
Sessions often include mindfulness practices and exercises people can use between meetings. The clinician adapts the process to each person’s needs and goals. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Long Island University earned in 2012.
She has experience building assertive communication skills and relapse prevention work in addiction settings. That range of practice informs a practical, strengths-based style in session. Rachel aims to create a respectful, empathetic space where clients can try different tools and make steady change.
She encourages people to set realistic goals and partners with them to build skills that fit daily life.
How Rachel’s approaches translate to online work
Rachel uses Somatic-informed work to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body, and then practice gentle movement or breathing to reduce physical tension. This can be helpful for anxiety, chronic pain, and trauma-related symptoms.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Client-centered techniques emphasize a respectful, supportive relationship where the person’s own goals guide the work.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about your concerns, try different tools, and adjust based on what feels useful. Together you decide which methods fit your goals and daily life.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and medical appointments, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic and mindfulness practices to an online setting so you can practice between sessions and carry skills into everyday routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English