About Rachael
Rachael Finstuen is a Minnesota licensed professional clinical counselor with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Rachael keeps sessions simple and focused. She listens for the patterns that make daily life harder and helps clients build small, practical tools to cope.
Background and approach
Conversations and plans are shaped to fit each person’s situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all script. She also works with people struggling with self-esteem, motivation, and major life changes. Additional areas Rachael addresses include issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, codependency, and isolation.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide the work. Clients can expect a calm, compassionate tone in sessions. Rachael emphasizes sensitivity and respect while helping people set realistic steps toward feeling better.
She encourages people to move at a pace that suits them. To begin, Rachael asks about what feels most urgent and what goals matter most to the client. From there she collaborates on a simple plan and adjusts it as progress or setbacks occur.
Her aim is to make therapy useful and practical for everyday life.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Rachael uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress through short exercises and behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing the impact of trauma and abuse at a manageable pace, using structured conversations to reduce overwhelm and build safety in daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachael will talk with each person about their goals, test different methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client choose techniques that match needs, preferences, and progress.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share thoughts in shorter bursts or between sessions. These options help people access care on their schedule and keep therapeutic work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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