Rachael St.Claire
Highest Degree Held: Psy.D.
Specialties: Depressive and anxious moods; worrying ruminating minds; fear/phobias, avoidance of painful emotions, trauma, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, the psychological complications of aging, chronic and life-limiting illness.
Types of Clients: Adults, Elderly
Languages spoken: English
Licensures/Certifications: Licensed Psychologist
ACT/CBS Background and Training: Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into a broad range of cognitive-behavioral interventions and psychodynamic therapy. Training: ACT Bootcamp, Healing Trauma With ACT, ACT for Anxiety Disorders, Working With Self and Anxiety in ACT, ACT-informed OCD treatment, in addition to many years of professional study and practice.
ACT/CBS Experience: Yes
Additional Information: With forty years of clinical experience, Dr. St.Claire offers psychotherapy grounded in evidence-based, scientifically informed approaches. Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), among others, the work focuses on helping people develop greater psychological flexibility which is the ability to respond to life’s challenges in ways that are more open, aware, and values-driven rather than driven by avoidance or automatic habit and learned rules.
Rather than applying a fixed treatment protocol, Dr. St.Claire works within a process-based framework that tailors therapy to the individual, targeting the specific psychological processes most relevant to each person’s experience and goals.
A long-term contemplative practice informs a therapeutic sensibility that takes seriously the relationship between thought, experience, and behavior and approaches that relationship with curiosity and detailed attention. Psychodynamic approaches to the therapeutic process play an important role in understanding the therapy relationship.
Rather than applying a fixed treatment protocol, Dr. St.Claire works within a process-based framework that tailors therapy to the individual, targeting the specific psychological processes most relevant to each person’s experience and goals.
A long-term contemplative practice informs a therapeutic sensibility that takes seriously the relationship between thought, experience, and behavior and approaches that relationship with curiosity and detailed attention. Psychodynamic approaches to the therapeutic process play an important role in understanding the therapy relationship.