About Rachel

Rachel Bowser, MS, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Sex Therapist. She views the world as a vibrant, exciting, beautiful place that is to be explored. She also believes in standing in solidarity for inclusion, acceptance, equality, freedom, and dignity. Rachel interweaves these beliefs into her therapeutic approach and is passionate about helping others by utilizing inclusion through diversity. With that said, she does not take herself too seriously and thinks therapy can be fun, and laughter can be some of the best medicine.

She has nearly twenty years of experience in the mental health field; Working from a mindset of acceptance and inclusion Rachel takes a collaborative holistic approach, utilizing person-centered, mindfulness, and strength-based perspectives. Her clinical style when working with you is free of judgement, she asks what has happened to you as opposed to what is wrong with you and helps you recapture a life worth living. She tries to model what it looks like to live life with a high positive energy, believing that what you put out into the world you get back.
Rachel is pan/queer identified sex positive therapist, who specializes in sexual health across the life span. She creates a safe space for the LGBTQI+ community and is trans affirming. Rachel also has experience working with individuals in non-traditional relationships, such as consensual non-monogamy/ethical non-monogamy, and is poly, kink aware.    

Rachel will contend the most important piece of your journey will be the therapeutic bond you develop with her. She hopes you will find her to be a support that uplifts, empowers, and validates you throughout this process. She is confident that together with you she can help create a positive and safe place for you to not only face your challenges, but also move forward and thrive. She has experience assisting individuals who want to explore sexual pleasure, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, relationships, and sexual function. As well as those who experience difficulties related to depression, low self-worth/image, anxiety, and, trauma to become more resilient than they already are.

Rachel received her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Chatham University in 2007, and completed her undergraduate degree from Seton Hill University with a concentration in Art Therapy. She has advanced training in Sex Therapy through the University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program as well as a Certificate in Political Social Work, as advocacy and activism are a priority for her. 

In her personal time you can find Rachel visiting the beach, camping, kayaking, attending concerts, getting tattoos, changing her hair style/color, and ringing her cowbell while wearing a tutu at  Pittsburgh Penguins games. Rachel enjoys these activities with her children, large extended family, and friends. She is also an avid traveler and loves trying new cuisine, as she holds a belief that it is important to spend time experiencing people, perspectives, and cultures that are different from her own.