How Rachel works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Rachel
Rachel Sirek is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who emphasizes practical strategies to manage strong emotions and relationship challenges. She often uses cognitive and mindfulness-based tools to help people reduce anxiety, handle anger, and make changes that fit their everyday lives. She works with adults who want to better understand how their minds and habits affect mood and behavior.
Rachel pays special attention to neurodivergent ways of thinking, including ADHD and other learning differences, and helps people reduce self-criticism while finding approaches that match how they operate.
Background and approach
In session she uses straightforward skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. That means clients practice concrete coping skills, learn ways to notice unhelpful thinking, and try values-based actions between sessions. Her experience includes both outpatient and crisis settings, where she learned to stay curious and calm under pressure.
Those experiences shaped a direct but compassionate style that focuses on what works for each person. Rachel aims to make therapy collaborative and flexible. She helps people build better emotion regulation, improve relationships, manage grief or life transitions, and address concerns like depression, bipolar mood shifts, trauma, and anger.
She prefers clear goals and practical next steps that clients can use right away.
What Rachel works with
Everything Rachel lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Rachel's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Rachel lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take steps that match their values. It can help with anxiety, anger, and finding direction when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. CBT is useful for depression, panic, and day-to-day coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel collaborates with each person to try methods, track what helps, and adjust based on goals and preferences. That means you and the therapist decide together which techniques to emphasize and how to practice them between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill coaching, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat fits quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while using the chosen therapeutic approaches in real time.
Questions people ask about Rachel
What concerns does Rachel help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, trauma and relationship strain, plus issues like self-esteem and life transitions.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, using CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to teach skills and test changes between sessions.
What kind of experience does she bring?
Rachel has three years of clinical experience that includes outpatient work and crisis settings, where she learned adaptive coping and de-escalation techniques.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Colorado.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She is not accepting international clients and works with people located according to local practice rules.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing and starting therapy work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire.