About Che'
Che' Raquel Ward is a licensed psychologist in North Carolina with 17 years of experience. She creates a calm, welcoming space where people can begin to address stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, and challenges related to ADHD. Her approach is straightforward and practical, focused on what will help each person move forward.
She believes trauma can be subtle and long lasting. Events that changed a person's sense of safety or fairness in the world can shift how they see others and themselves.
Background and approach
Che' Raquel helps people name those effects and figure out which concerns matter most to them. Work in sessions is collaborative. Clients bring honesty and feedback about what helps, and she helps identify problems and tools that fit the person's life.
Treatment plans are personalized and aim for concrete changes rather than vague goals. Che' Raquel addresses a wide range of issues beyond the main concerns, including attachment and abandonment worries, aging and caregiver stress, body image, communication and commitment issues, and challenges related to neurodiversity and alternate sexual cultures. She also supports people coping with complex or overlapping conditions.
Her practice blends clinical experience with a coaching mindset. She frames recovery as a joint effort where progress is the marker of success. The goal is clear: help people learn skills, regain confidence, and eventually feel ready to move on without ongoing therapy.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Che' Raquel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at clear, practical change. One common approach focuses on identifying how past events affect current feelings and behavior, then practicing new responses. This kind of work can help with anxiety, trauma reactions, and relationship patterns. Another useful technique emphasizes learning concrete coping and communication skills. Sessions often include practice of strategies you can use between meetings, such as breathing, grounding, or communication scripts, which helps with stress, ADHD-related challenges, and conflict in relationships. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences. That includes checking in regularly and adjusting methods if something isn't helping. Online formats make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls let people work more closely on interpersonal issues and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions and live chat can be shorter or easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Text-based messaging and asynchronous options are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers written reflection. Together these options increase flexibility and make it simpler to maintain momentum in therapy.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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