Rachel Lopez De Castilla Wooden, LMFT

About Rachel

Rachel Lopez De Castilla Wooden is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas with six years of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Rachel writes plainly and meets people where they are to help them move forward.

She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into therapy. Sessions focus on identifying those strengths, setting small goals, and practicing changes that matter.

Background and approach

Rachel supports people who are facing relationship strains, family concerns, grief, career questions, or the impact of trauma and abuse. Her work includes attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment and blended family concerns, and communication problems. She also helps with feelings of isolation, guilt, shame, and compassion fatigue that can come from caregiving or first responder roles.

Issues around body image, money, and life purpose are addressed in straightforward ways. Rachel draws on client-centered listening along with narrative and solution-focused tools to help clients tell their story differently and test new approaches. She also uses mindfulness practices and elements of the Gottman Method to support communication and connection.

Her practical style aims to make changes feel doable, one step at a time.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following a person's lead to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs support naming feelings, finding strengths, and deciding what change looks like in their life.

The Gottman Method offers concrete communication tools and step-by-step exercises aimed at improving how people talk and repair conflict. It is useful for people wanting clearer conversations and fewer repeated arguments.

Mindfulness therapy introduces short practices to calm the body and notice thoughts without getting pulled into them. This can reduce moment-to-moment anxiety and make stressful situations easier to manage.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rachel will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting tools as needed so the plan feels useful and realistic.

Confirm the current session options before booking because formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, shorten commute time, allow brief check-ins during a busy week, or avoid being on camera when that helps. Many people find remote work helps them practice new skills in real time and follow up more consistently.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Gottman Method

A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Rachel help with?

She helps with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, career questions, and related issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment, and blended family struggles.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style is client-centered and practical. She listens for strengths, uses narrative and solution-focused tools, and adds mindfulness and Gottman-based techniques to improve communication and everyday coping.

What is her professional background?

She has six years of professional experience working with people on stress, anxiety, motivation, and related concerns. Her approach emphasizes helping clients build on their existing strengths.

Where is Rachel licensed and based?

Rachel is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Texas.

Which languages are supported during sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people from other countries work with her?

Rachel does not accept international clients at this time.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin therapy with Rachel?

Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience: 6 years
Licensed: Texas
Languages: English

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