About Rachael
Rachael Izquierdo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Florida with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and attention-related concerns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical changes that fit daily life.
Rachael uses a mix of talk-based tools and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She supports parents who feel overwhelmed and adults facing relationship or communication problems.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like low self-esteem, anger, impulsivity, eating concerns, and addiction-related challenges. Her sessions often include goal-setting and small, doable steps to make life feel more manageable. Rachael draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and build on each person’s strengths.
She adds cognitive-behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Rachael has worked with people affected by trauma, adoption and foster-care questions, attachment concerns, and the stresses of young adulthood. She brings a calm, practical presence and encourages tools that can be used between sessions.
Outside of work she practices yoga, cooks, and spends time with her family and dogs. People who want direct, steady support for everyday struggles often find her approach helpful. She aims to make therapy fit real life, with steps that feel achievable and focused on improving daily routines and relationships.
How Rachael’s approaches translate to online care
Rachael blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral and emotionally-focused ideas to guide online work. Client-centered work means the sessions start with the person’s concerns and priorities, and the therapist follows the client's pace to build trust and clarity. Cognitive-behavioral techniques focus on noticing thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines. Emotionally-focused ideas help people name and respond to strong feelings, which can improve communication and closeness in relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rachael discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. Clients and therapist decide together whether to emphasize skills practice, emotional processing, or mindful awareness based on what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations. Phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework discussion, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and follow through on small steps between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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