Rachael Bailey, LCSW, CSW

Licensed in Tennessee · 5 years in practice

Rachael Bailey connects with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life’s pressures.

License and registration

LCSW, Tennessee: 8475 · expires March 2026
LCSW, Georgia: CSW008909 · expires September 2026
LCSW, Florida: SW22164 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1346848678 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English

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About Rachael

Rachael Bailey connects with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life’s pressures. She focuses on helping individuals manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and mood concerns. Rachael keeps sessions straightforward and practical so busy people can make steady progress.

Rachael uses clear, evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship and intimacy struggles.

Background and approach

Sessions often include practical skill-building, real-life problem solving, and moments to reflect on feelings and personal history. Rachael’s background includes five years of professional work and social work credentials listed as LCSW and CSW. She practices in Georgia and speaks English.

Her approach centers on collaboration - she treats each person as the expert on their life while offering guidance and skills to move forward. Typical work in sessions may include identifying triggers, practicing coping skills, and developing new ways to communicate needs. For concerns like substance use, trauma, or overwhelming emotions, she helps people break problems into manageable steps.

She also supports those coping with major life changes, career stress, or grief. Rachael aims to create a calm, goal-focused space where people can try new strategies and build confidence. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes and helps clients tailor tools to fit their daily routines.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Rachael lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Self esteem
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Anger management
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Attachment issues
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Personality disorders
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Post-traumatic stress
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sex addiction
Sexual assault and abuse
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Rachael names

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Online support

How these approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work explores how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people change patterns that cause distress. Online sessions can look at relationship stories and practice new ways of connecting and responding to others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. In remote sessions clients learn practical techniques to manage anxiety, mood shifts, and impulsive behaviors through homework and in-session coaching.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. These tools often help with intense emotions, impulsivity, and maintaining relationships, and they adapt well to coaching over video or messaging.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the early work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This lets the client shape the focus and pace of therapy.

Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or if someone prefers writing their thoughts. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent progress.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of issues does this therapist address?

Rachael works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, bipolar mood concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and related struggles such as codependency and communication problems.

How would you describe the therapy style?

Her style is practical and collaborative, blending skill practice with emotional work. Sessions focus on problem solving, behavior change, and understanding relationship patterns.

What is her professional background?

She has five years of professional experience working in clinical settings and helping people with mood, addiction, and trauma-related concerns.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

Rachael is listed with LCSW and CSW credentials and practices in Georgia.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different scheduling and communication needs.

How does payment or cost work?

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