Rachel Hayes, LPC, LCPC

Rachel Hayes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of counseling experience. She practices in Florida and speaks English. Rachel focuses on helping people navigate mood concerns, stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and the challenges that come with addiction and trauma.

Her style is engaging and collaborative. Rachel blends client-centered work with structured techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address thinking patterns, emotional regulation, and behavior change.

Rachel also brings trauma-focused tools into sessions when needed. Approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be offered as part of a tailored plan. She combines these methods with motivational interviewing when people are facing substance use or behavior change.

People who come to Rachel often want practical tools for coping, clearer communication, and a plan for handling life transitions. She aims to create straightforward goals and steps that fit into day-to-day life. Conversations focus on real situations and useful strategies rather than jargon.

Rachel’s background includes work across inpatient and outpatient settings and with diverse client concerns. That experience informs how she structures sessions and how she supports people through recovery, grief, or change. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect with her practice.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working from your goals. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you set practical next steps to try between sessions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and functioning. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing small behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding to stress and anxiety.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It is useful when feelings feel overwhelming or when someone wants tools to manage strong reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That planning can change over time as goals evolve.

Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into daily life, such as scheduling around work or caring commitments and reducing travel time. It also allows for shorter check-ins when you need them and can make accessing trauma-focused work and skill building more practical. Because specific session formats are not listed in the profile, confirm current options before booking to know what is available.