About Rachel
Rachel May is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are juggling stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, ADHD, and related concerns. Her approach is practical and straightforward, with support that aims to reduce overwhelm and help people take the next step.
Rachel draws on experience gained in psychiatric hospital settings and outpatient work. That background means she is comfortable with complex situations and with people who have experienced trauma or acute crises.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of therapies to match each person’s needs rather than a single fixed method. In sessions she offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what feels stuck. She listens for patterns that cause trouble and suggests skills and small experiments clients can try between meetings.
She also shares resources and concrete strategies for coping day to day. People who prefer clear guidance alongside emotional support tend to do well with her style. She helps set realistic goals and checks progress regularly.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. Rachel combines approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused perspectives to shape treatment plans. She helps people clarify values, build healthier habits, and learn skills for managing emotions and relationships.
Sessions can include goal-focused coaching alongside therapy when that fits a client’s needs. Her Texas license allows her to provide professional services within the state.
How her approaches translate to online care
Rachel combines cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in ways that people often find practical. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches straightforward skills to change behaviors and reduce symptoms. Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and learning to accept difficult feelings while taking actions that matter to the client.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel treats approach selection as a team effort and adjusts methods based on what the client needs, their goals, and what feels doable. She will explain options, try techniques together, and change course if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These formats let people access therapy from different locations within Texas and pick what works best for their routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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