Educational and Professional Background
Rakefet Yaakoba, PsyD, LCP, is a Washington Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Following her graduation from the Clinical Psychology Program at Indiana State University she worked at a Veteran Administration hospital in upstate New York in the Combat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinic. Her work included individual and group therapy both for veterans and their families. She has also worked in the Western Washington University Counseling Center and is currently in private practice in Bellingham.
Areas of Special Interest
Rakefet works with adults of all ages, couples and families using a variety of approaches. Her areas of specialty include:
- Combat and Sexual Trauma
- Sexual Identity Issues
- Guided Imagery and Hypnotherapy for the treatment of Anxiety Disorders
- Cross Cultural/Acculturation/Immigration Issues
- Perinatal and Postnatal Loss
Areas of special interest
- Anxiety
- Combat Trauma
- Immigration Issues
- Perinatal and Postnatal Loss
- Sexual Identity Issues
- Sexual Trauma