Rachel is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) in Tennessee and Georgia. She is also a teacher, author, and speaker. An Atlanta native, Rachel spent the past decade living and working in Nashville before recently returning to Georgia in 2026.

Rachel’s professional path began in education. After earning her Master’s in Education from the University of Virginia in 2015, she spent several years teaching elementary school. During that time, her passion for child development and mental health began to intersect, leading her back to graduate school. In 2020, she earned her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Play Therapy from Lipscomb University.

Rachel works with children, teens, and adults navigating eating disorders and disordered eating, trauma, anxiety, depression, and OCD. She also frequently works with individuals recovering from patterns of perfectionism and people-pleasing. Rachel considers it a deep privilege to sit with clients who are courageously choosing healing in a world that often encourages disconnection from our bodies, emotions, and embodied wisdom.

Rachel approaches therapy from an integrative, trauma-informed perspective that recognizes the profound connection between mind, body, and relationships. She believes that meaningful healing requires more than cognitive insight—it also involves helping the nervous system learn new patterns of safety and regulation. For this reason, she often incorporates somatic and nervous system–informed practices into her work with clients. Currently, she is in her intermediate year of training in Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented trauma therapy focused on resolving stored survival responses and strengthening nervous system resilience.

She is trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and has training in several evidence-based approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), I-CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and parts work (Internal Family Systems–informed).

Rachel has spent the past six years specializing in eating disorder treatment and is currently pursuing her Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) credential. Her work in this area is grounded in an Intuitive Eating, anti-diet, and weight-inclusive framework. She is particularly passionate about helping clients understand how attachment patterns, trauma, and nervous system dynamics shape their relationship with food, movement, and body image.

Drawing from her background in education and family systems work, Rachel also offers parent coaching for caregivers who want to deepen connection with their children and break generational patterns. Her work with parents is informed by attachment theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), and Conscious Discipline. She especially enjoys working with parents who are courageously re-parenting themselves while raising their children.

Rachel enjoys working with Christian-identifying clients who wish to explore the intersection of emotional and spiritual growth. She is passionate about helping individuals engage faith as a pathway toward healing rather than a means of bypassing pain. At the same time, Rachel warmly welcomes clients of all beliefs, identities, and spiritual backgrounds. Conversations about spirituality are always client-led and only incorporated when desired.

In addition to her clinical work, Rachel enjoys teaching, writing, and creating resources that make psychological and nervous system concepts accessible to everyday life. Through speaking engagements, social media, and her Substack writing, she shares insights on trauma, nervous system regulation, eating disorder recovery, connection-focused parenting, and the cultural influences that shape our relationship with our bodies and mental health.

Outside of her professional life, Rachel enjoys a slower pace of life with her family. She and her husband love spending time outdoors, going on hikes, and sharing meals together. This season of life also includes lots of time with their daughter and Golden Retriever, Ollie (affectionately known as “Ollie Man”). Rachel also loves experimenting in the kitchen with sourdough baking—her starter, Thelma, is still going strong.

If you are a Tennessee or Georgia resident interested in beginning counseling, you can learn more or submit a contact form through the Therapy page of this site.