Rachel Ehrhardt, LPC

Rachel Ehrhardt is a licensed counselor with a Masters in Counseling Psychology who brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work with individuals and couples. She holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and earned a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology (MSCP). Her background includes long-standing work in substance abuse treatment, including extensive experience in correctional settings, where she developed a direct, practical style that many people appreciate.

Rachel combines an educator's focus with therapeutic care, teaching skills that help clients rethink unhelpful thinking patterns and take concrete steps toward change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is central to her approach - she emphasizes examining and testing thoughts, identifying distortions, and replacing inaccurate assumptions with more evidence-based thinking. She also uses solution-focused techniques to help people find and implement workable solutions quickly when they are ready to move forward.

She works one-on-one and with couples and is in training with the Gottman Method, having completed Level 1. She is also pursuing additional training in sex therapy and planned further certification work at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Rachel has worked across diverse settings - inpatient and outpatient programs, psychiatric wards, schools, nursing homes, halfway and transitional housing, and vocational programs - and does not take on children or teenagers, staying within her scope of expertise. Her practice centers on relationship and family concerns, addiction recovery, parenting and fatherhood issues, grief and life transitions, stress and anxiety, and building self-esteem and life purpose.