SomaWise Chicago
Counseling, Consultation, & Therapeutic Yoga
Rachel Sherron MA, LCPC, RYT
About
Rachel Sherron
Rachel (she/her) is a licensed clinical professional counselor and trauma-informed mind-body therapist who helps individuals reconnect with themselves through an integrative approach to mental health and wellness. With nearly 15 years of experience in the field, Rachel specializes in working with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions, supporting clients in building greater emotional resilience, self-awareness, and balance.
Services
Individual Psychotherapy
Sessions with Rachel involve a collaborative approach to help you improve relationships, ease your racing mind, relax physical tension, and live a more fulfilling and balanced life. Whether you are struggling with work stress, trauma, food/body image issues, challenging relationships or addictive behaviors, she will help you explore the issues you are facing and to better cope through crisis.
Therapeutic Yoga
Individual yoga sessions with Rachel include gentle movements, breathing practices, and meditation. Yoga sequences are tailored to target the need of each client and can focus on increasing body awareness while recovering from trauma or eating disorders, improving mental/emotional balance during bouts of depression or anxiety, and engaging in deeper spiritual connection with Self.
Support for Clinicians
In addition to her clinical practice, Rachel has trained clinicians nationally on integrating body-based approaches into trauma treatment and has contributed to research exploring the impact of yoga therapy in high acuity recovery settings. She is passionate about supporting other clinicians through both didactic and experiential consultation and supervision and has developed a 6-week course for clinicians looking to include somatic work into their practice. Rachel aims to create a consultation experience in which clinicians feel educated and empowered when facing difficult moments in their work.
Consultation sessions are provided on a bi-weekly or as needed basis.
The Approach
Rachel’s work blends traditional psychotherapy with body-centered approaches including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, mindfulness practices, yoga with the evidenced based frameworks of EMDR, DBT, CBT and Motivational Interviewing to help clients understand how emotional experiences are held in both the mind and the body.
Her collaborative, strengths-based style creates a supportive space where clients can safely explore challenges, develop new coping skills, and move toward meaningful, lasting change.
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She believes that healing is a dynamic process that unfolds through curiosity, compassion, and a renewed connection between mind, body, and spirit.
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Her approach is gentle and earnest. Engaging and direct. Thoughtful and even sometimes funny. Rachel enjoys working with adult clients who are engaged and interested in a collaborative process.
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Individual psychotherapy sessions are 50 minutes long on a weekly or bi-weeky basis.
The work I offer can support clients going through:
Depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic pain, relationship struggles, low self worth, grief, career struggles and burnout.
Over the past 14 years, Rachel has supported clients and professionals in a number of settings. She served as the Coordinator of Trauma Awareness and Yoga specialist at a large residential treatment center and was named as a key faculty member for their clinical training institute. She was a contributor on a research study of utilizing yoga therapy in a group treatment model for folks in recovery from opioid addiction and has developed and presented several trainings on trauma informed yoga. In 2017, Rachel co-founded and served on the board of Inner Sense Healing Arts Collective, a 501c3 dedicated to creating diversity and accessibilityaccessibilty within the healing arts. She continues to serve on the board of the Breathe Festival, an annual event dedicated to purposeful living.
Rachel has shared her passion for her work in various publications and podcasts over the years.
Professional Experience
Getting Help
Rachel is effective in treating:
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Anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse, and grief/loss and is currently accepting BCBS PPO or sliding scale clients.
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Rachel is currently only seeing clients virtually.
Virtual therapy is available for any client located within the state of Illinois.