About Rachel
Rachel Balderrama del Hierro helps people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She writes plainly and listens closely so clients can talk through immediate problems and make small changes that feel manageable. Rachel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with six years of clinical experience in school settings, Child & Protective Services, outpatient clinics, and independent practice.
She works with individuals and offers parent coaching.
How Rachel works
Her background includes supporting people with developmental differences, neurodivergence, co-morbidity, feeding and eating concerns, and sensory processing differences. She aims to consider the whole person and the many forces that affect emotional health. Rachel uses an interactive, collaborative style.
Sessions give people room to share, reflect, and practice tools that reduce distress. Techniques draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered ideas, Solution-Focused work, and Trauma-Focused approaches when relevant. She pays attention to relationships and systems that shape daily life.
That can mean talking about family dynamics, school or work stresses, caregiving roles, and cultural background. Practical skills and simple experiments between sessions are part of the process. Rachel’s approach emphasizes pacing and respect for each person’s experience.
She aims to be a partner and supporter while clients build clearer routines, better communication, and greater self-compassion. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Rachel lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Rachel works with
The areas below are the ones Rachel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
How Rachel’s approaches translate to online work
Rachel often draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-Centered work focuses on listening, validation, and reflecting what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs empathy, clearer priorities, or support making sense of feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses hands-on exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what actually helps. That process is paced to the client's needs and preferences rather than fixed in advance.
Confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when mornings or lunch breaks are all someone has. Therapists generally help people adapt exercises and homework to everyday life so therapeutic work connects directly to daily routines and responsibilities.
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