- Strengths focused
- Goal oriented
- California LMFT
About Rachel
Rachel Carlos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with nine years of clinical experience. She brings a practical, strengths-focused style and aims to make therapy feel approachable. Rachel emphasizes self-love, self-acceptance, and emotional wellbeing in her work. She frames the work around each person's goals and values.
Rachel has a background in social work and spent much of her career supporting people connected to foster care and juvenile justice systems. She currently manages operations for a nonprofit that provides clinical case management. That mix of direct clinical practice and program oversight shapes a clear, organized approach to care.
In sessions she uses client-centered methods to build trust and clarity. She often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people address mood, thinking patterns, and motivation. She also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the goals.
Rachel offers practical tools for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or parenting concerns. She supports people working through grief, life changes, career questions, and caregiver strain. She also addresses adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family issues, postpartum depression, and multicultural concerns.
Her style is warm and goal-oriented. Rachel helps people break problems into manageable steps and try new ways of coping. She encourages self-compassion while working toward realistic change.
Rachel has a background in social work and spent much of her career supporting people connected to foster care and juvenile justice systems. She currently manages operations for a nonprofit that provides clinical case management. That mix of direct clinical practice and program oversight shapes a clear, organized approach to care.
In sessions she uses client-centered methods to build trust and clarity. She often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people address mood, thinking patterns, and motivation. She also draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the goals.
Rachel offers practical tools for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or parenting concerns. She supports people working through grief, life changes, career questions, and caregiver strain. She also addresses adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family issues, postpartum depression, and multicultural concerns.
Her style is warm and goal-oriented. Rachel helps people break problems into manageable steps and try new ways of coping. She encourages self-compassion while working toward realistic change.
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