About Rachael
Rachael Lustfeldt is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She supports those trying to cope with major life changes, compassion fatigue, relationship and family concerns, and issues with self-esteem. She presents a calm, straightforward approach that focuses on practical next steps.
Rachael emphasizes that each person knows their own story best. She looks for strengths you already have and helps you use them to meet current challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear ideas to try between meetings. Her practice draws on methods like acceptance and commitment work and cognitive behavioral strategies to address troublesome thoughts and feelings. She also uses narrative and solution-focused techniques to reframe experiences and identify what’s most useful now.
These tools are applied in concrete ways to everyday problems. Rachael has 11 years of professional experience and holds the credentials LCSW, CSW. She works with concerns across a wide range, including aging and geriatric issues, cancer and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, end-of-life and hospice matters, first responder issues, and isolation or loneliness.
Her background supports both short-term problem solving and longer-term growth. Sessions are offered in English and provided remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is to make therapy fit the realities of a busy life while focusing on steady, practical progress.
How Rachael’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This can help with anxiety, grief, and big life decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to change how someone feels, which is useful for stress, anxiety, and low mood.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experience, and what feels workable. Together they try methods, adjust plans, and pick techniques that fit the client’s life and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and quick problem solving between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
What is her general approach in sessions?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How are costs handled?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.