Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also supports concerns such as relationship strain, sleep problems, and exploring life purpose. Rachel works in a straightforward, skills-based way. She combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused techniques. Sessions focus on practical strategies - for example, thinking patterns that keep anxiety active, simple mindfulness exercises to reduce arousal, and goal-focused steps for career or life transitions. Her background includes community work with urban youth around substance use and behavior modification work in Hawaii. She also spent time helping displaced workers build workplace skills. Over many years she moved from agency roles into private practice, where she has provided ongoing support for grief, anxiety, and transitional life issues. In sessions she will listen, ask clear questions, and offer concrete tools to try between meetings. Work may include short experiments, tracking thoughts and behaviors, and brief skills practice to break recurring patterns. Progress is discussed regularly and plans are adjusted when something is not working. Outside of counseling she enjoys nature walks, hiking, snorkeling, playing piano and flute, singing, and time with her twin sister and her cats. She notes that trauma is not an area she is trained to treat and her licenses prevent her from working with people who have had traumatic experiences.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and responding to what matters to the person in front of her. In practice this means Rachel will ask questions, reflect concerns back, and help you set goals that feel relevant to your life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online work can include tracking patterns, trying behavioral experiments, and reviewing progress together to reduce anxiety or tackle work-related stress.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills and grounding practices to reduce reactivity. These exercises can be practiced during or between sessions to help with sleep, panic, and ongoing worry.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques to use based on presenting needs, goals, and what feels workable in day-to-day life. That fit is reviewed regularly and adjusted as needed.

Specific session formats are not listed here, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when needed, and use phone or video in ways that match energy levels and focus. The emphasis is on making sessions practical and manageable within everyday life.