About Rachael
Rachael Izquierdo offers straightforward help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or changes at home. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps so parents and individuals can find relief and regain control.
Background and approach
Rachael is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in Florida with 26 years of clinical experience. Her sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
She listens for patterns that make day-to-day life harder and helps people try different ways to respond. That might mean learning skills to reduce anxiety, practicing new ways to talk with someone at home, or working through grief and loss after a separation.
Rachael uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally focused ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She adapts those methods to the needs you bring to the room and to what feels doable in real life.
Sessions are paced to match how someone prefers to move forward. She has long experience addressing parenting challenges, attention and impulsivity struggles, adoption and attachment concerns, and issues related to body image or eating.
Rachael also works with people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and social anxiety. Outside of therapy she values a balanced life and brings that perspective into sessions.
The aim is practical change you can use between meetings, with support along the way.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rachael often draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and emotionally focused ideas to shape online work. Client-centered therapy centers the client's experience and priorities, with the therapist following the person's lead to build insight and confidence. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to ease anxiety or depression. Emotionally focused ideas help people notice patterns in their relationships and practice new ways to connect or respond.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try methods that fit the client's life and adjust as needed, keeping progress practical and measurable.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible and manageable. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel, and make follow-up easier.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English