Services
Please specify which program you are most interested in on the contact form. Thank you!
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I work with a wide range of experiences including anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief and loss. Many of my clients come to me seeking long-term satisfaction when “doing all of the things” has only led to temporary relief. People who seek out therapy with me struggle with burnout, people pleasing, difficulty relaxing, self-doubt, low self-esteem and self-confidence, trouble focusing on things that are important to them, and despite their motivation to change, they often feel like a salmon swimming upstream. On average, clients work with me for 6 months to a year; we work together to release the pressure of past experiences and meet your previously unmet needs to help you feel more in control of your life.
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Any session longer than a traditional therapeutic hour is considered extended session. It is a way to accelerate treatment outcomes and provide a “burst” of work to feel better faster. Many clients who benefit from extended session are looking to address a specific goal and may have limited availability for weekly treatment sessions.
EMDR is an evidence-based treatment that addresses how the brain and body store stress and pain. One of the barriers to effective EMDR is the limits of the 50 minute therapeutic hour. Sometimes over half the session passes while you get settled in, provide updates about the week, and prepare for EMDR processing.
If you have a high deductible or don’t plan on using insurance, extended session is a cost-effective and efficient way to heal while avoiding long-term weekly sessions. It can be available as an add-on to your work with another provider or a response to a particularly stressful event or season of life.
Learn more about EMDR extended session here
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Hungry Heart is a self-reflective program designed for people who want to cultivate a healthy and satisfying relationship with food through guided exploration and education. Participants enrolled in this program will receive individual clinical support and is designed to be integrated with the support of a licensed dietician. This trauma-informed curriculum focuses on skill development to manage underlying factors that influence your natural ability to interpret your body’s hunger and satiety indicators. This integrated service offers an opportunity to approach health in a holistic way by focusing on enhancing your natural ability to meet your own needs.
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The Self-Sufficiency program is a 6 week series of 90 minute sessions to support participants to increase confidence, optimize leadership strategies, build organization and communication skills and maximize earning potential. This program is designed for people who may have always dreamed of prosperous self-employment or may feel stuck following a milestone such as graduation from high school or college. This program is a time-limited commitment to target and process fear of failure, choice paralysis, negative self-beliefs, imposter syndrome and perfectionist ideals holding you back from moving forward. EMDR is primarily known for treating trauma, however, its potential to address emotional barriers that hinder self-sufficiency is significant.
Assessment and Treatment: Use EMDR to process and reframe traumatic or particularly stressful memories, reduce their emotional charge and develop healthier coping mechanisms.
Address Limiting Beliefs: This program helps you to identify negative beliefs that might be hindering self-sufficiency, such as “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t do it.” EMDR facilitates challenging and replacing these limiting beliefs with more positive and empowering ones.
Skill Building and Goal Setting: Focus on specific, measurable goals related to self-sufficiency, such as finding a job, managing finances or improving communication skills.'
Stress Management and Coping Skills: Use EMDR to process current stressors and develop healthier coping mechanisms
Key Benefits of this program: address root causes, enhance emotional well-being, increase self-efficacy, holistic approach to promote both internal and external observable growth.
Benefits of EMDR Extended Session
Feel better by accelerating treatment outcomes
Save money by avoiding long term weekly sessions
Avoid waitlists by getting connected to treatment faster
Ideal to address:
Anxiety
Grief and loss
Support recovery after a physical injury
Panic attacks
Phobias
And more!
“Rachel has helped with my awareness of my emotions and how they are presenting in my body. She has helped me find coping skills using EMDR practices to provide me with a space to process. She is skilled at holding me accountable in a compassionate way and challenging held beliefs that aren't serving me”
— HUNGRY HEART PARTICIPANT
I am a licensed independent clinical social worker in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Florida. I can schedule with adults 21+ living in these states.
Payment forms accepted: cash, credit or debit card, health saving account (HSA card), flexible spending account (FSA card), and EFT payments
Insurance and Rates
$165 per 50-minute session
OUT-OF-NETWORK with THRIZER: I am an “out-of-network” provider for most PPO insurance plans, which means I cannot bill your insurance directly for therapy services.
Most insurance plans offer out-of-network (OON) benefits, meaning you are billed directly by your provider and your insurance plan provides you with reimbursement for a portion of the out-of-pocket cost. However, often times there can be long waits for clients to receive reimbursement.
That’s why I work with Thrizer, a service that eliminates long waits for insurance reimbursement. You only pay your responsibility up front and Thrizer covers the rest (up to 70-80% of my fee) and THEY wait for reimbursement, so you don’t have to!
Use the Thrizer feature below to learn what to expect from your insurance plan for therapy.
Please note: if your insurance card says “HMO” this tool may not work for you.
Learn more about how to use OON benefits here
This one's for my fellow millennials
Is there a better way to explain a complex concept than with a pop culture* reference from the early 2000’s?
TLDR: In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Harry speaks to the horcrux locket allowing it to open, which then makes it possible for Ron to destroy the locket’s manipulative influence over him with the sword of Gryffindor. Ron was always capable of destroying the locket with his strength and courage, however, opening it was the only way to get to the source of the dark magic and the special sword is the only tool to truly destroy the locket once and for all.
In this analogy, your EMDR facilitator (Harry) creates the opportunity for you to access your strength and courage (your pre-existing strengths and good qualities). EMDR processing (sword) takes away the power of painful experiences that have become stuck in your body, like Voldemort’s soul in a horcrux.
*The use of this analogy does not reflect my endorsement of she who shall not be named
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