Rachel Wilson-Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 23 years of experience.
01About Rachel
Rachel Wilson-Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 23 years of experience. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on the relationship between therapist and client.
She uses client-centered work to listen closely and help people name what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small, testable changes in behavior.
Background and approach
Rachel has worked in many professional settings and with a broad range of issues. She helps people facing parenting challenges, career transitions, grief, trauma and recovery from life-altering events. She also supports adults on the autism spectrum and their caregivers, and works with concerns like chronic illness, neurodiversity, and intellectual disability.
Sessions often focus on practical skill-building. Clients learn problem-solving, time management, conflict resolution, and ways to improve executive functioning and daily routines. She also helps with deeper concerns such as identity, meaning, abandonment, attachment wounds, and forgiveness.
Her style is warm, collaborative, and goal-oriented. She uses motivational interviewing and mindfulness to help people clarify values and take steady steps toward change. Rachel describes her role as joining alongside clients on their life journey, offering coaching and support as goals take shape.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC010396 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1487296729 · 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
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
Methods Rachel names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Rachel names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships; online sessions use conversation and exercises to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person as a whole, giving space for people to talk through parenting stress, identity questions, or grief while feeling heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, life situation, and what feels most helpful. That can mean combining listening-based support with practical CBT tools, or adding mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelm.
Online formats offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-based worksheets, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, balance caregiving or work, and keep momentum between meetings.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Rachel help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns. Other focuses include trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar conditions, intimacy issues, anger, career difficulties, and family of origin problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm, empowering, and collaborative. She blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 23 years of professional counseling experience across a variety of settings and client needs.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Pennsylvania and provides services based in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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