Being part of a transformation journey with clients is deeply meaningful to me. Through our work together I've seen clients access a wholeness and place of strength and wisdom inside themselves that they didn't know was there.
Welcome
Rachel Winckel is a psychotherapist at Repose. She sees clients at our Pleasantville office in Westchester and online. Rachel works with survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault. She also works with LGBTQIA+ clients and with people moving through life changes, including pregnancy and the months after birth.
Working with Rachel is meant to feel curious and gentle. She is interested in all of you, including the parts that feel hard to show. She sees symptoms as understandable responses to what you have lived through, and she meets them with care. You can move at a pace that feels manageable.
Clinical background
Rachel Winckel's clinical background
Service Locations
- In-Person, Pleasantville New York (Westchester)
- Online in New York
Insurance Accepted
- Aetna (including PPO, HMO, Meritain Health, 1199 SEIU National Benefits Fund and Aetna Student plans)
- Wellfleet Student (NYU, School of Visual Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, etc.)
- Northwell Direct
- Out-Of-Network Benefits Reimbursement
Therapeutic Modalities
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness
Clinical Expertise
- Trauma
- Sexual Trauma
- Dissociation
- Perinatal and Maternal Mental Health
- Life Transitions
Client Focus
- Survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault
- LGBTQIA+ clients
- People undergoing life changes
Education
- Master of Social Work, New York University
- Women's Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Certifications and Training
- Basic EMDR Certification
- Trauma-Focused CBT
- Internal Family Systems, Level 1
- Integrating Internal Family Systems Across Clinical Applications
- Seleni Institute Maternal Mental Health Intensive: Perinatal Loss and Grief
- Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Clinical Training
Languages
- English
- French
Licenses
- New York Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
Working together
How Rachel can support you
People often come to Rachel for support with trauma, including sexual trauma and dissociation. Dissociation can feel like being cut off from your body, your feelings, or your surroundings. She also works with perinatal and maternal mental health, and with life transitions.
Rachel hopes clients build a stronger inner connection between the Self and their parts. In IFS (Internal Family Systems), the Self is the calm, curious core within each person. She also hopes clients come to understand their relationship dynamics and feel a growing sense of inner wholeness.
Her approach
Rachel's approach
Rachel's work is centered on IFS. This approach sees the mind as made up of different parts, each trying to help in its own way. IFS invites you to meet those parts with curiosity, from the steady place within called the Self.
She also uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a structured approach that may help with processing distressing memories. Mindfulness supports both, helping you notice what is happening inside with less judgment.
Why Rachel
Why work with Rachel
Rachel has deep experience with the IFS process. She focuses on helping clients develop a close inner connection between the Self and their parts.
She holds a non-pathologizing view of symptoms. That means she does not treat them as proof that something is wrong with you.
Curiosity guides her work. Rachel approaches each client, and each part, with genuine interest.
About
About Rachel Winckel
Rachel holds a Master of Social Work from New York University and studied Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her training includes IFS Level 1, basic EMDR certification, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), maternal mental health training through the Seleni Institute, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Gottman Method couples training. She practices under the supervision of Beenish Ansari, LCSW. Outside of sessions, Rachel loves creative writing and dance fitness.
Influences
Alice Miller, Karen Horney, Bessel van der Kolk, Mark Epstein, Pema Chödrön, Judith Herman
Rituals
creative writing, dancing, nightly meditation to spa playlist
Library
The Drama of the Gifted Child (Alice Miller); The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk); You Are the One You've Been Waiting For (Richard Schwartz); Trauma and Recovery (Judith Herman)
Areas of focus at Repose
Where Rachel can help
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Schedule a consultationRachel Winckel, LMSW, provides services in person at our Pleasantville office and online in New York.