About Rachel
Rachel Bertrand is a licensed clinical professional counselor with seven years of experience based in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, or life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
She helps people name what matters to them and then take small steps toward it. Sessions commonly include practical skills for managing worry, improving communication, and building self-compassion.
Background and approach
Rachel emphasizes short, doable exercises that fit into daily life. Her background includes work with people facing relationship and family problems, grief, trauma and abuse, and identity questions such as gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. She also supports those coping with eating issues, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and career or life-purpose questions.
Rachel pays attention to how attachment and past abandonment can affect current relationships. Therapeutic methods she uses include acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, dialectical behavior strategies, and a client-centered stance. Those approaches guide practical moments in sessions rather than theoretical discussion.
Rachel offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the platform arrangements. She works in English and holds an Illinois LCPC credential. To begin, people follow the site's matching steps to schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction on what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and social phobia.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they can try an approach for a few sessions and adjust as needed to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work for quick check-ins or when writing things out feels helpful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family schedules and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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