Rachel specializes in working with neurodiverse adolescents and adults. She listens, understands, and collaborates with each individual to identify their strengths and challenges and develop meaningful goals. Rachel takes a practical approach, recognizing that therapeutic strategies must make sense in everyday life to be effective. She emphasizes the importance of social connectedness in the healing process and helps clients develop healthy, supportive relationships with family, friends, and in communities of shared values and interests.
Rachel works with many individuals who are considered “twice-exceptional.” A twice-exceptional person has a gifted IQ and other co-occurring diagnoses. This may be a medical condition, ADHD, autism/Asperger’s, Specific Learning Disability, anxiety, etc…
“I am not broken, I am beautifully different.” -Kerry Magro
A note about young adults and “adulting”…
Working with older adolescents takes place in the context of preparing them for adulthood. This developmental stage is one of testing boundaries and establishing independence which sometimes creates resistance to parent input and guidance. Enlisting other adults can allow adolescents and young adults to think more objectively without being emotionally reactive to parents. Rachel works with ages 16-24 to develop life skills related to goal-setting, prioritizing, planning, and decision-making. She also facilitates values clarification to help young people develop a compass for navigating healthy relationships in adulthood.
