About Rachel
Rachel Anauo is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to understand what feels hardest right now. Rachel aims to make the first steps feel manageable for a worried parent or an overwhelmed person seeking change.
She blends practical strategies with thoughtful conversation. Sessions often include straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help reduce distress in daily life.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas are used to set small achievable goals and keep progress moving. Rachel has 15 years of experience supporting people through relationship problems, family concerns, intimacy-related issues, and career or life transitions. She also addresses deeper wounds such as trauma, abandonment, guilt, shame, and issues around forgiveness and isolation.
Her pace is steady and adaptive to each person’s needs. Clients can expect an approach that balances skill-building with personal meaning. Rachel supports work on boundaries, codependency, body image, caregiver stress, and substance-related concerns with attention to real-world coping.
She encourages self-compassion while offering clear steps to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. Care is offered in English and delivered remotely in formats that fit busy schedules. Rachel aims to help people find greater resilience and clarity, one practical step at a time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rachel often uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices in online work. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain distress and teaching practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and increase calm, useful for overwhelm and grief.She also draws on motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck. This approach helps people clarify their own reasons for change and set realistic next steps, especially around addictions or habit shifts. Together, these approaches are used flexibly to match each person’s goals and daily life challenges.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Decisions about pacing and techniques are made together so progress fits the client’s preferences and circumstances.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging to make care more convenient. Video calls let people work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates between sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, family life, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English