About
Your thoughts, feelings, experiences, the stories you tell and the connection we share, all contribute to therapy in meaningful ways!
Dr. Rachel Fallig is a licensed clinical psychologist and relational-psychodynamic psychotherapist with expertise in early and middle adulthood psychology. Her practice is based in Philadelphia, where she offers private Telehealth sessions to individuals across Pennsylvania.
Dr. Fallig believes a central part of feeling helped is finding a therapist who brings hope, humor, safety, and a sense of belonging into the room. She meets people where they are at and approaches this work with collaboration and curiosity to create meaningful, lasting change.
Approach
Therapy invites people to explore, process, and make sense of their ideas, emotions, experiences, challenges, and areas of conflict. It brings focus to how our relationships, social systems, personal histories, and development inform the ways we experience ourselves, others, and the world around us.
Dr. Fallig has a strong foundation of training in psychodynamic, relational, and systems therapies, and uses a developmental, multicultural, and ACT framework to further ground her work. These theories, a bit like a roadmap, provide an important guide for the practice of psychotherapy, and help us understand the ways we interact, connect, and move through life.
That in mind, Dr. Fallig adapts her approach in service of the things that make us each unique. These may include individual factors, upbringing, cultural context, social-relational dynamics, and reasons for seeking therapy - so the therapeutic process shifts with each person. At its core, her style is interactive, empowering, reflective, and relatable.
Background
Dr. Fallig received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Chestnut Hill College. She holds two Master’s in Psychology, and earned a BA in Interpersonal Communication & Human Relations from Purdue University.
Dr. Fallig completed her APA internship in health services psychology at the Drexel University Counseling Center, and advanced training at Haverford College Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS). Following her postdoctoral fellowship at Haverford CAPS, Dr. Fallig joined their team as a psychological counselor before moving to private practice full time. There, she sees adults of all ages with a particular focus on issues facing individuals in early and middle adulthood.
Over the years, Dr. Fallig has provided clinical supervision and consultation to a number of psychology trainees, students, and colleagues. She has taught at the graduate level, and her research on expectations in psychotherapy has been presented at several conferences. She holds an active license to practice psychology in Pennsylvania.
