Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW

I’ve been taking a series of workshops with Rachel Michelson called Energizing your Finances that involve using Energy Psychology techniques including tapping. These classes have been very transforming for me! Using the techniques has been helping me to break through a lot of old subconscious, negative patterns. I really appreciate the way Rachel leads us all through to recognize our negative patterns, particularly ones we don’t realize are sabotaging our potential and goals! Rachel leads the class with much insight and intuition.

I was seeing another therapist in 2013 and made some progress, but it was slow going. I decided to try working privately with Rachel after success in a workshop she had given using Emotional Freedom Technique.
I feel like I’ve been really reaching core issues with her these past couple of months. She is gentle and intuitive, and she seems to combine (from my experience) psychotherapy with mind-​body techniques. I like her use of EFT — releasing my old crap (past issues) or new crap (worry about the future) by touching into or tapping specific areas and making positive affirmations.
I had another mind-​body therapist years ago who really made a difference in my relationship patterns. I’m currently shifting family stuff with Rachel. I’d recommend her work highly.

I have seen Rachel twice. First as a relationship counsellor, and more recently on my own. I echo the previous reviews of her work being very professional, thorough and holistic. She is a great listener, and also will share insights and ask very, very good questions. I recommend her highly!

Rachel is a therapist who genuinely cares about her clients and is wholeheartedly invested in helping them reach their goals. She is an honest and ethical person who won’t try to pull one over you. She understands me and helps me make sense of my own scrambled thoughts and provides me with new ways of relating in relationships that make me feel better about myself. She is caring and nurturing but will challenge you got think out of the box to change your behavior. If you have emotional trauma of any sort, you should have her do energy work with you. It helps you clear those fears and anxieties that keep you stuck. I highly recommend Rachel.

I have been seeing Rachel as a counselor for many years now, and really enjoy the work we do together. She has a great warm presence, is an excellent listener, and is also super intuitive emotionally and energetically. She has incorporated some energy work into our sessions which I found really helpful in moving through some physical and emotional blockages. At the same time, she is also grounded and is very professional. As a result I really feel I can talk to her about anything, from inane daily annoyances to deep seated painful and messy emotions. She is very open minded. I highly recommend her as a counselor and energy psychology practitioner.

I recently did some work with Rachel on a specific issue and I was really satisfied with her and the progress we made. I loath therapists who are apathetic, arrogant, or just «clocking in/​out.» Rachel is quite the opposite, which in the therapy over-​saturated Bay Area is refreshing.
I asked about her background and training, and what I like is that she is truly holistic. I don’t mean that in the lame newagerwholefoods way where someone focuses just on alternative methods. She truly is holistic. She has training in traditional western therapy methods (which can be relevant and helpful, even if just theoretically), AND she has extensive training and experience is numerous other healing & therapy modalities (energy work etc) that she can appropriately incorporate into the sessions. That is true holism (in my opinion). Lastly, she’s not fake or apathetic. Absolutely worth every minute and every dime. Many thanks Rachel!