Rachel Knudson is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with seven years of clinical experience.
01About Rachel
Rachel Knudson is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, anger, trauma, and depression. Rachel speaks English and aims to make the first steps toward change less daunting.
Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and recognizing their strengths. She believes people know important things about their lives and that therapy is a place to build on those strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, finding small steps that feel doable, and practicing ways to cope between meetings. Rachel has worked with concerns that often appear together, such as addiction and mood struggles, dissociation, and the fallout from domestic violence.
She also supports people dealing with attachment or identity questions, body image, and issues related to alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink. Her experience includes helping people handle major loss and the stress that follows natural or human-caused disasters. In the room she offers steady, straightforward support.
She helps people sort out control issues, codependency, and feelings of emptiness. Rachel also addresses specific patterns like avoidant or antisocial personality features and disruptive mood symptoms when they are part of a person's difficulties. Her overall goal is to empower people to try manageable changes and to build on progress over time.
She works with a focus on what a person wants to improve and how to get there in practical steps.
02Credentials
- LPC (Arizona)
- License LPC-20808 · expires February 2026
- NPI
- 1386391712 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Rachel lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
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04Online support
How evidence-based techniques work online
Rachel draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical, skills-based work. One common approach is structured talk and problem-solving, which helps people break big problems into manageable steps and practice coping skills between sessions. This method is useful for stress, anxiety, and anger issues.Another helpful approach addresses trauma and grief through paced processing and stabilization techniques. These methods focus on reducing overwhelming symptoms and building a sense of safety before working through difficult memories or losses. They can support people coping with abuse, dissociation, or major loss.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachel will discuss options and try techniques that match a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. She collaborates with each person to adjust the plan as needed rather than prescribing a fixed route.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and live chat or text messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing processing between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and choose the format that best supports their pace and routines.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this counselor address?
Rachel helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and depression. She also works with related concerns like addiction, dissociation, body image, and codependency.
What is her general therapy style?
She listens first and then helps people identify strengths and small, practical steps to change. Sessions focus on talking through current problems and practicing coping strategies between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of professional work experience helping people with mood, trauma, and stress-related concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
Rachel holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and she practices in Arizona.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
In what formats can sessions take place?
Sessions can be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and scheduler factors and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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