Rachele O’Hare, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Staff Therapist

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Rachele O’Hare is a licensed clinical social worker who uses trauma-informed experiential therapies including EMDR and somatic approaches, as well as CBT and DBT to help clients build safety, self-compassion, and healing within a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Rachele supports adults and adolescents with symptoms related to the effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders and negative body image, dissociation, and neurodivergence.  She collaborates with clients to examine the effects of societal expectations and systemic oppression on their self-perception, and to move toward a more authentic, embodied existence.

  • Master of Arts in Social Work with a Clinical Concentration from the Crown School of Social Work at the University of Chicago, 2015

    Bachelor of Arts in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

    Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), 2018

    Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, Basic Training, 2019

    Somatic Experiencing, Year 1 with Maureen Gallagher, 2020 

    Inference-based Cognitive behavioral therapy (I-CBT) Training for OCD, 2025

  • Rachele is a trauma therapist with a foundation in behavioral therapy, and training in EMDR and somatic therapies. Rachele weaves together a combination of cognitive, behavioral, and somatic approaches to help clients process their past and change their experience of the present. She believes in a collaborative approach, and works with clients to build safety, containment and stability. She relies heavily on the power of self compassion, validation, and attachment. She has found that creating a safe therapeutic relationship where clients can explore their experience of themselves can lead to profound healing. 

    Rachele also places emphasis on examining how societal influences impact our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world around us. She works with clients to identify the ways their self-perception has been shaped by oppressive systems and societal expectations. 

  • Rachele works with adults and adolescents who struggle with a variety of concerns including anxiety, depression, disordered eating, body image concerns, trauma, and dissociation. She enjoys working with folks who identify as neurodivergent, as well as folks who are part of the queer community. She uses warmth, humor, non-judgment and compassion to welcome all aspects of each client into the therapeutic space so that folks can work towards seeing and accepting themselves as they are, while also working towards change, growth and healing. 

  • When she’s not in the therapy room, Rachele can usually be found chasing after her three young children, singing loudly in the car, having impromptu dance parties, making arts and crafts, crocheting, or taking another training in her never-ending quest to learn everything there is to know about the human mind. She enjoys crossword puzzles (mostly on Mondays), walks in the woods, and smashing the patriarchy. 

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