Utilizing her skills as an NLP Master Practitioner, Rachel incorporates much of her training and brings her life experiences and insights into her parent and educational workshops, teleconference support groups and community adult Bible study classes.

Rachel also writes a column in The Jewish Press, Parental Perspective on Struggling Teens, under her pseudonym, Debbie Brown. You can access her archived articles by logging on to www.jewishpress.com and, in the search box on the home page, type in Debbie Brown.

Having been reared in a strictly Orthodox home, Rachel’s educational background of Yeshiva schools for girls and a religiously observant household, has equipped her with the tools she would need in her personal research project.

Rachel has always been fascinated with the operation of the human mind. And her greatest aspiration was to understand the psychological underpinnings of Torah personalities by asking certain questions such as: What made them tick? What was it like for them? What made them so great? And finally, how did they overcome their challenges? To that end, Rachel undertook a research project exploring various segments in the Book of Genesis as a way to discover answers to her questions. And many of those answers, she feels, are the key pieces we require in order to cope with our own personal challenges.  Her theme, therefore, in her writings and throughout her working with clients is “coping and growing – not despite – but because of our challenges.” 

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