Rachael Izquierdo

Rachael Izquierdo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who focuses on practical support for common life stresses. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and issues that often come with adoption, foster care, and young adult transitions. Her style is straightforward and person-focused, aimed at helping people find clearer ways forward.

With 26 years of clinical experience, Rachael draws on approaches that center the client's perspective. She uses Client-Centered work to build trust and to follow each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her toolkit to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that make daily life easier.

She also draws from Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. Mindfulness and Motivational Interviewing are used to increase awareness and support commitment to change. These methods are applied in plain language, with practical steps and small experiments between sessions.

Rachael has a long background helping people with family and parenting concerns, communication problems, attachment questions, and women’s issues. She also works with people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, body image struggles, and social anxiety. Her work aims to be collaborative, gradual, and focused on things that make day-to-day life better.

Outside of clinical work she practices yoga, cooks, listens to music, and spends time with her husband, children, and two dogs. Prospective clients are invited to start the intake process to see if they are a good fit to work together.

Approaches that translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals, creating space to talk through what matters most. It helps people gain clarity and feel understood before making changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and day-to-day coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change interaction habits that cause pain.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as progress is made.

For practical matters, confirm the session options before booking since specific formats were not listed in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use a work break or an evening slot more easily. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to work well in an online setting.