About Rachel
Rachel DiPippo helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, trauma, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 22 years of experience and practices in Rhode Island. Her style is straightforward and collaborative.
She works with each person to set clear goals and chooses methods that match those goals. Sessions focus on understanding what drives difficult thoughts and behaviors and on practical steps to change them.
Background and approach
Rachel uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. That mix lets her help people challenge unhelpful thinking, practice new responses, and tell a clearer story about their lives. She also brings methods that support recovery from substance use and patterns like codependency.
In sessions she listens with empathy and offers concrete skills to try between meetings. Common skills include thought tracking, grounding and breath practices, communication techniques, and small behavior experiments to test new ways of coping. Progress is reviewed together and adjusted as needed.
Her work covers many concerns such as anger, eating and body image issues, intimacy and attachment challenges, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, divorce or separation, and fertility-related stress. Rachel aims to help people find relief and practical ways to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions; it supports people who need a nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity and build calm for those coping with trauma, stress, or intrusive thoughts.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That means approaches can be blended and refined as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can help with quick check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, family life, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English