Dr. Rachel Greenberg is a licensed trauma-informed Clinical Psychologist, Couples Therapist, & Teacher offering seekers from all over the world empowerment & relational practices inspired by various psychological and spiritual traditions. She’s passionate about personal and collective justice and liberation. She engages in local activism to deepen conscious engagement with the intricacies that compose our identities. She’s been active in a Bay Area based Coalition of Sacred Activists Based in Buddhism & Feminine Mystery Knowledge & also served on the leadership team for a local Questioning Cultural Conditioning mindfulness discussion sangha and served as Co-Chair on The Wright Institute’s Integrated Health Psychology Training Program’s Diversity Committee which trained doctoral psychology students in an interdisciplinary setting. She’s the Founder of The Numinous Path, her psycho-spiritual practice for Whole Self Healing & Transformation.
She’s earned two master’s degrees and a doctorate in clinical psychology. She’s influenced by her academic pursuits and rigorous clinical training in addition to her own series of profound spiritual awakenings and embodied emotional healings.
In addition to nearly 20 years of academic and clinical training in psychology, she incorporates principles from Eastern and Spiritual approaches to healing. Dr. Rachel is most strongly influenced by Buddhist psychology and is trained by Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center. Her work is infused with her immersive studies in Buddhist psychology training and the meditation practices that clarify our minds, cultivate basic goodness in our hearts, and transform patterns that perpetuate suffering.
Dr. Rachel is also notably influenced by Internal Family Systems, Imago Theory, and Emotionally Focused Therapy. With additional inspiration from Intersectional Feminist Theory, Nonviolent Communication, & Depth Psychology.
Her passion for working with couples is rooted in the belief that deep connection and intimacy are the foundation of thriving relationships. She is continually expanding her expertise through ongoing education in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a proven approach that helps couples create secure emotional bonds. In addition, she’s immersed in teacher training with John Wineland, where she explores the power of presence, masculine and feminine dynamics, sexual polarity, and conscious leadership in relationships. Her goal is to guide couples in transforming their connection, fostering trust, and building lasting love.
Healing Back To Wholeness is Dr. Rachel’s comprehensive digital course and community-based program for anyone ready to heal childhood wounding and recover their authentic self. The course is a deep dive into healing practices to direct an awakened and heart-centered life. Dr. Rachel also offers a self-study course called Connected that teaches students how to create authentic and secure relationships. For inquiry around signing up for either experience, find Dr. Rachel on Instagram or email support@heydrrachel.com
She also has a small private practice where she works with individuals and couples to heal protective patterns of relating & cultivate deep safety, connection, and intimacy with Self and Other.
Her approach combines psychology, spirituality, somatic awareness, sensuality, relational attunement, and myth. The work guides you into deeper parts of your truth so you can compassionately & confidently enhance and expand your quality of life.
The work you’ll do in Dr. Rachel’s sessions, courses, or community programs supports higher knowing and a peaceful and enriched sense of relationship to Self & others. You will be guided to uncover, unlearn, and rework distorted beliefs stemming from trauma that keep you inauthentic and in survival mode. This opens space for the awareness and agency required to create new habits and take courageous strides towards authentic expression and embodiment. Through self-connection, Dr. Rachel invites you to learn how to foster more soothing, compassion, and validation for what you go through. The work also guides you to create new narratives based in what you listen long enough to know is true for you. Dr. Rachel helps you honor your innate wisdom, trust your intuition, build skillfullness, refine expression, and turn your healing into a creative expression of artful conscious living.
The work you’ll do with Dr. Rachel supports you to heal the relationship to yourself & others. Dr. Rachel provides holistic psycho-therapeutic support specializing in healing complex developmental trauma, mindfulness, meditation, embodiment practices, inner child healing, cultivating the art of deep & healthy relating, nonviolent communication, empowerment, dating and relationship health, buddhist psychology, authentic-self recovery and discovery, and spirituality.
She uses concrete psychological, somatic, and emotionally-oriented insights for skillful living. Her passion is to support the embodied healing and transformation process and to be a guide towards awakening authentic expression intra- & inter- personally. She guides people to radically actualize an aligned life and cultivate the art of deep relating.
Dr. Rachel lives in the hills of Northern California where she devotes herself to her own process of healing and awakening through the enrichment of her ever-evolving practices. She spends time connecting to the land, meditating, feeling, practicing embodiment and sexual polarity, studying, writing, connecting to her community, and supporting her patients, clients, and students to know & love themselves more deeply. Dr. Rachel is honored to be a creative conduit for the healing work she lives, teaches, and guides.
