Rachel Dowell, LCSW

Rachel Dowell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with five years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She practices from a person-centered perspective, treating each individual as the expert on their own life and partnering with them to address the obstacles they face. Rachel emphasizes listening without judgment while offering honest, constructive feedback to support growth and change.

Her clinical toolkit includes Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, harm-reduction strategies, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Gottman-informed methods for couples. Rachel adapts these approaches to meet the needs of each person, drawing on structured techniques as well as relational, supportive methods to address both symptoms and underlying patterns.

She has experience working with substance use and co-occurring conditions, suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention, relationship conflict including intimate partner violence, depression, anxiety, ADHD, grief and loss, and trauma. Additional areas of focus include abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, family concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, jealousy, life purpose, and post-traumatic stress. Rachel practices in Missouri and conducts therapy in English.