About Rachel
Rachel Palmore is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Alabama. She has nearly 20 years of experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. Rachel aims to create a direct and compassionate space where parents and individuals can talk through their concerns and find practical steps forward.
She uses a mix of familiar therapy methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include listening deeply, reflecting feelings, and setting small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Rachel emphasizes self-empowerment and helps people try new strategies that can change daily routines and relationships for the better. Her background includes long-term practice with diverse populations and settings. That history informs a flexible approach that adapts to different life stages and circumstances.
Rachel pays attention to cultural factors, adoption and foster care issues, and challenges that come from prejudice and discrimination. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to reshape unhelpful thoughts, emotionally-focused work to address relationship and intimacy matters, and mindfulness techniques to reduce overwhelm and improve focus. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change or needs support finding motivation.
People choosing Rachel will find a straightforward, warm style and an emphasis on practical changes. She supports work on career stress, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood management, and coping with major life changes. Conversations are geared toward small steps that add up to meaningful progress.
How Rachel’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. In online sessions this means the therapist mirrors concerns, validates feelings, and follows the client’s lead to set goals and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; online CBT usually involves tracking thoughts, trying small experiments between sessions, and practicing new skills during calls. Emotionally-focused work concentrates on how emotions shape close relationships and intimacy issues, helping people notice emotional patterns and try different responses in real time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend methods to try. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the plan can be adjusted as needed, making the process collaborative and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer real flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and skills practice, phone calls can fit a short break at work or low-bandwidth situations, and live chat or messaging are handy for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help people maintain momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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