Kristi Rachal
Practical support for family and relationships
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristi
Kristi Rachal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 23 years of experience. She works with adults on family and parenting concerns as well as relationship and addiction issues. Her style is informal and direct so clients can talk honestly and feel at ease during sessions.
Kristi has provided care in many settings including prisons, hospitals, home health and hospice, and independent practice. She has also worked with veterans and active duty military members and their families.
Background and approach
That range of experience informs her practical approach to everyday problems. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused strategies. Those methods are aimed at helping clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and build coping skills they can use right away.
Sessions prioritize concrete steps and accountability. Her additional focus areas include issues such as blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, substance use, intimacy and kink-related concerns, grief and end-of-life matters, and workplace or first responder stress. Kristi helps people name their priorities and work toward manageable goals.
Clients can expect a straightforward conversation about what matters most to them. The therapist frames change as a process of learning practical skills and trying new habits. This practical focus supports families and parents wanting tools for daily life.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Kristi relies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and often includes short exercises to try between sessions, which work well in remote formats.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve focus. Mindfulness can be practiced during a video call or with short recorded prompts between meetings.
Solution-Focused Therapy is another part of her toolkit. It centers on small, achievable goals and steps that lead toward clearer family or parenting routines and improved relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the issues at hand, then recommend which methods to try first. Clients and therapist adjust the plan together as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy parents and families, allowing work on practical skills from home, between errands, or outside typical business hours. The variety of formats makes it easier to keep continuity and try techniques in real life while checking in remotely.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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