About Rachel
Rachel Black is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 20 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and life changes. She works with individuals facing addiction, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, sleep and eating struggles, and career or parenting stress.
Rachel focuses on what’s happening now and practical steps to feel steadier day to day. Her style is direct and warm.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to blend talking and body-centered awareness to help people notice how stress shows up physically. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive and behavioral approaches, mindfulness, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to build coping skills. Rachel also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand patterns in close relationships.
In the therapy room she helps clients identify patterns, set small goals, and practice new habits between sessions. Work may include learning grounding and self-soothing techniques, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and trying different ways to speak up or set boundaries. For people dealing with loss or trauma she combines stabilizing strategies with paced exploration of difficult memories.
Rachel explains things plainly and makes a plan that fits each person’s life. She also supports people who struggle with family of origin issues, codependency, chronic pain or illness, and feelings of emptiness or guilt. Her approach balances practical problem-solving with attention to the body’s signals.
She practices in Florida as an LMHC, license number FL LMHC MH18535, and conducts sessions in English. Rachel prefers a collaborative process that helps clients find realistic, lasting change.
How Rachel’s approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions appear in the body and use breathing, grounding, and gentle movement to reduce overwhelm. This can be useful for stress, trauma symptoms, chronic pain, and anxiety by offering tools to calm the nervous system and increase body awareness.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current reactions. It helps people learn new ways to relate, set boundaries, and feel steadier in relationships by exploring repetitive interaction styles and practicing alternatives in session.
Client-Centered Therapy creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person’s goals guide the work. The therapist listens, reflects, and supports each person to find their own solutions and build self-trust.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt methods based on needs, goals, and what feels manageable. Together they set priorities and try techniques to see what helps best.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, practice skills between sessions, and check in more frequently when needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English