- Strengths-based care
- Practical tools
- Culturally aware
About Rachel
Rachel Carlos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) working in California with nine years of clinical experience. She emphasizes self-love, self-acceptance, and emotional well-being in her work. Rachel takes a strengths-based, client-driven approach and aims to make sessions feel comfortable and respectful.
Before shifting into nonprofit leadership, she spent much of her career supporting people involved with foster care and the juvenile justice system. She also has a background in social work and currently oversees a nonprofit program that provides clinical case management services.
In sessions she often uses motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people processing trauma, depression, and struggles with work-life balance. Rachel favors practical, concrete steps alongside conversations about values and goals. She works to help people notice patterns and try different habits that support change.
Her experience also includes helping with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and grief. She addresses relationship and communication problems, blended family challenges, and issues around abandonment and forgiveness.
Rachel describes her style as culturally aware and open minded, aiming to meet each person where they are. She encourages people to bring what matters most to them and to set the pace for the work. If self-esteem or life transitions feel overwhelming, she helps people break things down and find manageable next steps.
Before shifting into nonprofit leadership, she spent much of her career supporting people involved with foster care and the juvenile justice system. She also has a background in social work and currently oversees a nonprofit program that provides clinical case management services.
In sessions she often uses motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people processing trauma, depression, and struggles with work-life balance. Rachel favors practical, concrete steps alongside conversations about values and goals. She works to help people notice patterns and try different habits that support change.
Her experience also includes helping with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and grief. She addresses relationship and communication problems, blended family challenges, and issues around abandonment and forgiveness.
Rachel describes her style as culturally aware and open minded, aiming to meet each person where they are. She encourages people to bring what matters most to them and to set the pace for the work. If self-esteem or life transitions feel overwhelming, she helps people break things down and find manageable next steps.