Rachel Pehrson, LCSW, CSW

Rachel Pehrson, LCSW, CSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and related concerns. Her practice draws on approaches she lists as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness work.

Pehrson's background includes community mental health centers, primary care and pain management clinics, homeless shelters, and outpatient substance use treatment programs. She earned a Master of Social Work in 2012 from Long Island University. That breadth of settings informs how she frames problems and practical steps in sessions.

Her way of working is described as interactive and respectful. Sessions focus on developing clearer communication, managing emotions, and learning skills to handle cravings, anxiety, grief, chronic pain, or mood swings. She emphasizes mindfulness exercises and skill practice alongside talk therapy.

Clients who seek help with relationship patterns, attachment or abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, or co-occurring substance use and mental health struggles will find these issues listed among her focus areas. She also notes experience with bipolar presentations, disruptive mood dysregulation, and other complex presentations.

Practical steps in therapy may include behavior change work, skills from DBT, cognitive techniques, and values-based action from ACT. She frames treatment as a collaborative process where concrete skills and communication strategies are practiced in session and applied between meetings.

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