Rachel Dufresne (She/Her)

Accepting Clients

Passionate and dedicated professional with extensive experience, ready to assist you on your mental wellness journey. Lets thrive together!

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Do you find yourself achieving outward success yet feeling inwardly unsatisfied or burdened? Despite managing daily tasks and reaching goals, you may struggle to authentically connect with yourself, impacting your relationships, work, finances, and overall happiness. It's time to break free from this cycle! I specialize in helping individuals uncover underlying hurts, pains, and traumas that often hide behind "high-functioning" depression/anxiety, perfectionism, and low self-esteem.

My Background and Approach

As a licensed clinical social worker grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with over 6 years of experience, I am dedicated to transforming negative thought patterns and behaviors. My approach is warm, supportive, and inquisitive where I integrate interests like reading, arts, crafts, and music/art into sessions.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

In our initial session, we'll delve into your motivations for seeking therapy and collaboratively establish the most effective path forward. Many of our adult behaviors can be traced back to childhood traumas. Personally, I understand the weight of feeling dissatisfied and empty due to past traumas, particularly those related to paternal influences and my interactions with men, which left me feeling undervalued. My own therapeutic journey has provided me with profound insights into these experiences. Using CBT, I focus on the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and life experiences. Together, we'll explore techniques to challenge and enhance these patterns throughout our sessions. Additionally, I've come to appreciate how our early attachments shape our adult relationships, and I've addressed these dynamics in my own therapy journey.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Attachment Theory Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Psychoanalytic
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Anger Management Therapy
  • Art Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Couples Counseling
  • Dance / Movement Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Family Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Depression Self-Esteem
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Adoption Issues
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Child Issues
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Divorce
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Eating Disorders
  • Family Conflict
  • Gambling Addiction
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Infertility
  • Insomnia
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Men's Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Racial Identity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
  • Veterans/Military Service
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Oscar
  • Optum
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
  • United Healthcare
  • AvMed
  • Florida Blue
  • Cigna/Evernorth
  • Oscar Health
  • Blue Cross blue Shield of Massachusetts
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Christianity

At A Glance

  • Experience: 2 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $150 - 250/session

Reach out to Rachel