Hi, I’m Rachael.
You are the most important person in your life. That is the core of my therapeutic approach, and shapes how I show up to support your healing.
At Ember Therapy Collective, therapy isn’t about fixing you. It’s about helping you understand yourself more clearly, relate to your experiences with compassion, and deepen your connection to your emotions and needs.
Healing happens when you feel genuinely seen and understood, not judged, rushed, or reduced to a diagnosis. When you feel safe enough to be fully yourself, growth follows.
My Approach
My approach to therapy is relational and collaborative. We’ll identify your goals, and together, we’ll form a therapy team that works together to understand what modalities feel most supportive and aligned with your needs.
In our sessions, we pay attention to your head, meaning your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and your heart, or your body, to best understand how past and present experiences show up in your relationship with yourself and others.
I offer culturally responsive, identity-affirming care that considers not only what’s happening internally, but also the broader social and systemic realities that impact your life. Your identities and context are needed to understand the ways you’ve learned to cope, and are an essential and explicit piece of our work.
How We Work
My therapeutic style is warm, direct, laid-back, and contains more than the occasional swear word. I’ll bring genuine connection and a relaxed approach to therapy modalities, integrating ACT, emotion-focused DBT, and strengths-based work without making therapy feel overly clinical.
This means that therapy with me can involve building practical skills for navigating overwhelm or intense emotions, exploring patterns rooted in earlier relationships, and slowing things down enough to feel safe and reconnect with your needs and desires.
Everyone is different, so therapy is not one-size-fits-all. We’ll find the pace that allows you to establish the safety needed to heal and grow.
Who I Work With
I’m especially passionate about supporting LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent clients as they navigate identity, relationships, anxiety, and emotional attunement.
Many of the people I work with are sensitive, thoughtful, and deeply self-aware, while still feeling stuck, burned out, or disconnected from themselves. You may understand your patterns intellectually and still struggle to turn awareness into tangible shifts.
Therapy can be a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and move forward with greater clarity and self-trust. Here, you don’t have to mask, over-explain, or shrink parts of yourself to be understood.