- CBT strategies
- Mindfulness practice
- DBT skills
About Rachael
Rachael Mooney is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice in South Carolina and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Georgia with four years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Rachael uses practical methods to help people manage day-to-day struggles and make decisions about next steps.
She works in a conversational, interactive way and often uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on client-centered principles to prioritize a person's own perspective during sessions. Mindfulness techniques are used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Rachael has experience helping people who deal with attachment issues, body image concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, and eating or food-related worries. She also addresses obsessive thoughts and behaviors, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood shifts, and feelings of isolation or low purpose.
Sessions include practical tools such as skills from dialectical behavior therapy to cope with intense emotions and thought records from CBT to track patterns. She encourages short skill practices between sessions and reviews what works for each person. Background in social work guides a focus on concrete supports and problem solving.
Rachael holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia. She provides sessions in English and works from her South Carolina licensure as well as her Georgia credential. Before booking, people are asked to confirm current session options through the service's scheduling flow.
How Rachael adapts therapeutic methods for online sessions
Rachael uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people identify and change thought and behavior patterns that increase anxiety. CBT often involves keeping brief records of thoughts and testing small behavior changes between sessions to see what helps.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach concrete ways to manage strong emotions and handle crisis moments. DBT skills include short grounding techniques, breathing or distress-tolerance strategies, and step-by-step emotion regulation practices. Client-centered principles guide how sessions are led, putting the person's goals and perspective at the core of each meeting.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Rachael will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans based on what proves helpful during early sessions.
Confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography did not list them explicitly. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or reduce travel time. Therapists and licensed professionals often use those practical advantages to help clients keep consistent appointments and practice skills in everyday settings.
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
Georgia, South Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem issues, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive concerns, and caregiving stress.
What is her therapeutic style?
Rachael uses an interactive, collaborative style that centers the client's perspective. She combines client-centered work with CBT, DBT, existential ideas, and mindfulness techniques.
How much experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience since earning a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia.
What credentials and region does she hold?
She holds LISW-CP in South Carolina and LCSW in Georgia and practices from her South Carolina credential.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can people outside the US work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact rates are provided during the signup process.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the site.