Rachael Flack, AASW

Rachael Flack is an accredited Australian social worker with 16 years of professional experience who focuses on supporting women, mothers and parents through life transitions. She holds the AASW credential - Accredited Australian Social Worker - and combines clinical training with lived experience to offer practical, compassionate care. In addition to her social work practice, Rachael is a postpartum doula and women's circle facilitator and volunteers with the Pink Elephants miscarriage support network.

Rachael is a mother of three primary school aged children and has navigated a personal journey that includes infertility treatment, pregnancy loss, parenting neurodivergent children and recent amicable separation and co-parenting. Those experiences inform her empathy and understanding when working with clients facing similar challenges. Her clinical focus includes stress, anxiety, grief, parenting, depression and ADHD, with additional attention to caregiver stress, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, pregnancy and childbirth, self-love and women's issues.

She works with clients to create an open, nonjudgmental space where feelings and thoughts can be explored, and she emphasizes practical strategies that fit into busy everyday lives. While talk therapy is central, Rachael prioritizes tools and small actionable steps that help clients make tangible change. She supports people who are ready to explore authentic identity, take steps toward change and find more fulfilling and balanced ways of living.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Remote Support for Mothers

Rachael uses a blend of talk-based therapy and practical skills-oriented work to help clients manage stress, anxiety, depression and transition-related challenges. Talk therapy provides a space to process emotions, understand patterns and build insight, which is helpful for navigating grief, relationship change and parenting stress. Practical skills-focused interventions translate evidence-based techniques into everyday tools - for example, simple coping strategies, routines and communication skills that support busy parents and caregivers.

Choosing the right therapeutic approach is collaborative. Rachael works with each person to identify goals, preferences and what feels most useful in day-to-day life, and together they adapt methods so the work fits the client rather than the other way around. This process helps ensure therapy is relevant, realistic and focused on meaningful change.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to attend sessions around family and work commitments, maintain continuity during transitions, and access a licensed professional from home or another convenient location. The format supports regular contact and practical follow-through so clients can apply strategies between sessions.