Rachel Shapiro
LPC Associate, CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach)
In therapy, I create sacred space for clients to bring compassionate curiosity to life experiences.
Therapy is a place to deepen one’s connection and relationship with the self, and to gain embodied insight about one’s personal process, dynamics, and patterning. It is also a place to explore one’s relationships to others to build more fulfilling connections and intimacy in one’s life. I offer various tools to support you in your journey, such as Internal Family Systems, mindful self compassion, guided visualization, and a somatic (body based) orientation to trauma.
Ultimately, we work together to tenderly uncover what is true for you, to make the unconscious conscious, and to hear and amplify your inner voices in areas where they long to be heard. I offer and invite radical approval for the shameful, dark and hidden. I welcome you in your full complexity, including your powerful wisdom and aliveness as well as your mystery, your shadow, and your disowned and exiled parts. It is an honor for me to participate in the depth work of psychotherapy.
Outside of the counseling room, you can find me gardening, making art, and spending time with my family and kids.
Currently, I work with adults navigating anxiety, relationships, depression, trauma, life transition, personal power and voice. I enjoy working with pregnant and postpartum birthing parents and mothers who are processing the changes and challenges that come with having a child. I am bilingual in Spanish and have worked in New York as a bilingual trauma therapist with survivors of crime and domestic violence.
I work with individuals seeking to delve deep inside and are interested in experiencing Internal Family Systems. IFS builds self compassion, insight, and healing. It also can help create movement and growth in places that have long been stuck. As a systems therapist, I see the individual as a family of parts functioning within other various systems. I frequently work with clients who are interested in including an exploration of external systems of oppression and how culture has impacted their worldviews.
I hold deep respect and curiosity for differences such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. I am an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community and am engaged in my own education about the various identities that I inhabit.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Who I Work With: Adults
While I work with a wide range of people and presenting problems, some of my most common topics of focus include:
Trauma
Pregnancy/Post Partum
Anxiety
Spirituality and Meaning Making
Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
Shame and Guilt
Career Exploration
Blended Families
Infidelity
Divorce
Emotional Regulation
Depression
Grief
LGBTQIA+
Values
Young Adults
Perfectionism
IFS
Boundary Work
Codependency
Inner Child and Individualization
Counseling Technique
I am a feminist, Internal Family Systems psychotherapist and my theoretical underpinnings are based in Integral Psychology, attachment theory, and relational approaches.
Professional Background
I am a level one trained Internal Family Systems therapist trained by the Internal Family Systems Institute. I am also a certified Co-Active coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute and have received training from ORSC (Organizational Relationship System Coaching). I am a certified End of Life/Death Doula trained by Going with Grace. I am currently enrolled in “Somatic Embodiment and Nervous System Regulation Strategies” through Collectively Rooted.
Education Credentials
I received my B.A. in Sociology from Vassar College. I hold a masters degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies. I am under the supervision of Maleigha Myers who is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Oregon.