About Rachel

Offering in person & online therapy

Rachel Bowser, MS, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Sex Therapist. She views the world as a vibrant, exciting, beautiful place that is to be explored. She also believes in standing in solidarity for inclusion, acceptance, equality, freedom, and dignity. Rachel interweaves these beliefs into her therapeutic approach and is passionate about helping others by utilizing inclusion through diversity. With that said, she does not take herself too seriously and thinks therapy can be fun, and laughter can be some of the best medicine.

She has nearly fifteen years of experience in the mental health field; Working from a mindset of acceptance and inclusion Rachel takes a collaborative holistic approach, utilizing person-centered, mindfulness, and strength-based perspectives. Her clinical style when working with you is free of judgement, she asks what has happened to you as opposed to what is wrong with you and helps you recapture a life worth living. She tries to model what it looks like to live life with a high positive energy, believing that what you put out into the world you get back.
Rachel is pan/queer identified sex positive therapist, who specializes in sexual health across the life span. She creates a safe space for the LGBTQI+ community and is trans affirming. Rachel also has experience working with individuals in non-traditional relationships, such as consensual non-monogamy/ethical non-monogamy, and is poly, kink aware.

Rachel will contend the most important piece of your journey will be the therapeutic bond you develop with her. She hopes you will find her to be a support that uplifts, empowers, and validates you throughout this process. She is confident that together with you she can help create a positive and safe place for you to not only face your challenges, but also move forward and thrive. She has experience assisting individuals who want to explore sexual pleasure, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, relationships, and sexual function. As well as those who experience difficulties related to depression, low self-worth/image, anxiety, and, trauma to become more resilient than they already are.

Rachel received her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Chatham University in 2007, and completed her undergraduate degree from Seton Hill University with a concentration in Art Therapy. She has advanced training in Sex Therapy through the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program as well as a Certificate in Political Social Work, as advocacy and activism are a priority for her.

In her personal time you can find Rachel visiting the beach, camping, kayaking, attending concerts, getting tattoos, changing her hair style/color, and ringing her cowbell while wearing a tutu at Pittsburgh Penguins games. Rachel enjoys these activities with her children, large extended family, and friends. She is also an avid traveler and loves trying new cuisine, as she holds a belief that it is important to spend time experiencing people, perspectives, and cultures that are different from her own.

About Angelyn

Offering online therapy

When I began to explore what I wanted as my career, psychology was not at the forefront of mind. I enjoyed many different things growing up such as woodwork, cooking, and art. I had passions for all. My desires changed from wanting to work in the construction field, to becoming a chef, to going to art school for design.

Once I became pregnant, my life’s journey and challenges became a fear that I had to face. I did not know the first thing about being a mother or having a family. Losing my mother as a young child, and spending most of my childhood and early adolescence in the foster care system it dawned on me that I wanted to be a beacon of hope for others who have also faced the same challenges. I did not want to become a statistic – thus changed my career perspective and drove my passion for psychology and therapy.

My motto in life is, “It's not a matter of where you start in life, it’s where you end up that matters the most”. I chose to use my disadvantages, trials and tribulations in life, as a stepping-stone to making a better future for myself and my children. Like myself and many others that can relate, with those negative experiences came a range of psychological diagnosis’, trust and abandonment issues, mood dysregulation, low self-esteem and emotional trauma. The road to healing for me, became a journey of self-discovery, finding and embracing my own identity.

My passion now encompasses helping others overcome the aftereffects of trauma so that they can live a life feeling validated and worthy. I have worked as a Master’s level therapist within a range of modalities for children and adolescents, young adults, couples, and individuals since 2019 and have been in the field of psychology for over seven years and am currently working towards licensure. Every therapeutic approach is developed based on the needs of the client/s. The therapeutic bond created between therapist and client, ultimately determines the success of therapy.

My clinical style is free of judgement, open-minded, and direct. Honesty is the best policy. If you can’t be honest with yourself or me, how can you be honest with others? You have to be willing to open those closed parts of your mind, to free yourself from the emotional prison you have created for protection, in order to heal and move forward in a positive direction.

My experience is treating individuals who experience difficulties with depression, anxiety, trauma, low self-worth/sense of image, and improving interpersonal relationship bonds with family or loved ones.

I am a family-oriented person that enjoys creating memories with my own children that I never had, experiencing all that life has to offer with them. I love the outdoors, camping, picnics, writing poetry, and cooking. Healing is a lifelong journey, I continue to do so everyday when I face challenges. I hope that you give me a chance to share my own life’s journey with you as a road to recovery and encouragement so that you can have the very life you want for yourself.