I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a trauma-informed, integrative approach to psychotherapy.

I work with individuals and couples who want to feel more connected to themselves and more confident in how they move through their lives and relationships. My clinical work includes depression & anxiety, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, moral injury, compassion fatigue, perfectionism, and relationship concerns. Having worked in healthcare systems for the past 15 years, I have a particular interest in working with healthcare workers and other professionals. My goal is to help people come back to living a full embodied experience; allowing them to whole heartedly show up for themselves and others.

Originally from New York, I earned my bachelor’s degree in psychology from Fordham University and my master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of San Diego. For the past ten years, my clinical work has included supporting physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals through UC San Diego Health’s HEAR Program (www.hear.ucsd.edu). In my healthcare work, I am known professionally by my maiden name, Rachael Accardi.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, my work deepened my interest in approaches that attend to the connection between mind and body. I pursued additional training in Reiki and became a Reiki Master Teacher, which I may integrate into my work when appropriate and aligned with a client’s interests and preferences.

My work is also informed by introductory training in Somatic Experiencing, which has expanded the ways I think about the relationship between emotional experiences and the body. I may incorporate body awareness and somatic practices into therapy when they are appropriate and useful to the work.

When I’m not helping others, you can find me nature bathing in a national park, traveling, watercoloring, and spending quality time with my family, friends, and two cats, Icarus and Desi.