Rachel Rankin

My communication style

I approach therapy with the objective of empowering the client to create their own success. Although I am warm by nature and approach therapy with compassion and empathy, I can be direct when needed, if the client needs to be challenged with irrational beliefs that may be limiting their success. Rapport is vital in exploring trauma and healing.

My journey to mental healthcare

After working in the fitness industry for over ten years, I became passionate about helping people recover from trauma and eating disorders upon reading "The Body Keep's the Score." I use my lived experience of overcoming my own traumas and past struggles with disordered eating to provide a safe space for clients who need true empathic support.

My goals for you

I help clients to reach their goals by working with them in a collaborative process using motivational interviewing, EMDR techniques, and Narrative exercises, such as network sketching to help the client find their adaptive stories, as well as exploring the limiting beliefs that are contributing to a maladaptive story that is not serving them.

Our first session

In the initial intake, I will work with you to create a collaborative treatment plan using motivational interviewing, as well as collect relevant information that you deem important to the process. I will likely provide a few coping skills, especially if the goal is to work through traumatic events using EMDR.

I identify as...

• Female
• Caucasian or White
• Non-denominational