Dr. Rachel Mock is a licensed mental health counselor and a life coach. She obtained her master’s degree from Florida State University and her Ph.D. from Regent University. Over the past 15 years, she’s provided therapy for individuals and families within a number of settings, including two hospitals, two nursing homes, several schools, a substance abuse treatment program, two outpatient mental health centers, a correctional facility, an eating disorder treatment center, a community college, and her private practice. She is also a registered art therapist, and she’s done art therapy and play therapy with many children. She lived in Guatemala for over a year, where she provided therapy through several humanitarian organizations.

She has been setting out on anthropological adventures since her childhood as a missionary kid. Growing up, she went from living in a Sound-of-Music-like Austrian mansion with dozens of other missionaries to witnessing the dramatic political changes of 1990s Russia first hand.

She’s had the opportunity to do humanitarian work in six continents: as a missionary kid in Europe, a student in Australia, an intern with a human rights NGO in Kazakhstan, a volunteer English teacher at an orphanage in Peru and a refugee camp in Algeria, and a therapist in the United States and Guatemala.

As a writer, she has worked as a correspondent for The Herald of Gadsden County and has written for several other publications, including The Pneuma Review, Tallahassee Woman, and tallahassee.com.

She hopes to continue traveling with her husband and children while learning about other people, finding ways to make a difference, and documenting what she encounters along the way.