About Chiralaine
Chiralaine Natschke is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who centers her work on practical strategies clients can use every day. She draws on many approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety, improve mood, and handle big life changes. Her tone is straightforward and focused on measurable progress.
With 18 years in behavioral health, Chiralaine has held roles such as mental health therapist, school counselor, and crisis screener. That variety shaped a flexible style for different situations.
Background and approach
She helps people navigate depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar moods, and obsessive or panic symptoms using clear tools and steady support. Her sessions typically start with a focused assessment and collaboratively set goals. Treatment plans are organized around those goals so people can see measurable steps forward.
She encourages active participation and adapts pacing to what each person needs. Chiralaine uses a mix of techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and build emotion regulation skills. She also incorporates acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas to improve values-driven living and relationships.
People who work with her can expect straightforward guidance, practical coping skills, and attention to life stresses like parenting, career pressure, and compassion fatigue. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients while practicing from Illinois. For those ready to begin, she supports a variety of online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Clients follow a simple matching and scheduling process to arrange sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that reflect personal values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, obsessive thoughts, and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that are useful for mood instability and intense distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That way sessions stay relevant and adapt as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief coaching between meetings. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from wherever you are and to match the mode to the moment.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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