Rachel Horn, LCSW

Rachel Horn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She brings four years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and life changes. She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Rachel works with people facing LGBT-related concerns, addiction, trauma, and parenting challenges. Her approach is conversational and tailored. She listens to each person's story and shapes the plan around their needs. Rachel draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change everyday habits. Sessions often focus on concrete skills. Rachel helps people break problems into small, manageable steps and practice new ways of responding. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when clients want short-term guidance or goal-oriented work. Her background includes work across stress, depression, intimacy-related issues, and a wide range of relationship topics such as communication problems, commitment issues, and codependency. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care history, attachment concerns, and aging-related issues. Rachel emphasizes collaboration and empowerment. She works side by side with people to build routines and thought patterns that fit daily life. People who want practical changes to thoughts and everyday habits may find her style direct and supportive.

How Rachel uses practical approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters. It focuses on values and small actions that fit daily life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses short, structured exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits, useful for stress, panic, and low mood.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy so people can find their own solutions. It supports self-esteem, relationship concerns, and coping with change by prioritizing the client's experience.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts those methods as progress is made. This is a shared process focused on what the client wants to change.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm which session formats Rachel currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. Therapists can also use online sessions to guide skill practice between meetings, track progress, and keep therapy focused on everyday routines and thinking patterns.