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Rachel Murdock

Beyond the Storm Behavioral Health


Rachel Murdock, MS, LPC, LCPC is the owner/clinician of Beyond the Storm Behavioral Health, LLC, providing mental health counseling in private practice. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Kansas. Her practice specializes in mental health counseling for first responders and individuals experiencing anxiety, mood disorders, or post-traumatic stress, and survivors of abuse.

Rachel is an adjunct faculty member with Missouri State University’s Department of Psychology, where she created a course, Psychology of Child Abuse and Exploitation, and co-authored a textbook regarding issues of compliant victimization, dynamics of child abuse, process of disclosure, and other topics related to child abuse. Rachel has taught this course for sixteen years. Prior to January 2023, Rachel was a Supervisory Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer (SCAFI) with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Victim Services Division, Child Victim Services Unit. During her career as a forensic interviewer, Rachel conducted almost 3,000 forensic interviews of alleged victims of/or witnesses to an incident. Rachel has studied forensic interviewing, children’s memory and suggestibility, process of disclosure, and trauma responses of victims for over 20 years.

Rachel has published on topics such as definitions of child abuse and neglect, the disclosure process in child abuse victims/witnesses, forensic child psychology, dynamics of compliant victimization, internet exploitation, suggestibility and trauma. Rachel has testified in state and federal hearings and trials during her career as a fact and/or expert witness.