About Rachelle
Rachelle Belott Filipiak is a licensed professional counselor who uses a flexible, interpersonal approach to help people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She draws on several therapy styles and adapts them to each person's needs. Her manner is direct and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
She earned a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Her background includes work in a domestic violence shelter for women, a college counseling center, a medium-security correctional facility for men, and outpatient mental health services.
Background and approach
Those settings shaped her ability to work with a wide range of concerns and life situations. Rachelle combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral skills. She also uses elements from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when they fit a person's goals.
In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new reactions, and build stronger emotional connections with others. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family stress, grief, parenting strain, self-esteem, and addiction-related issues. She also supports people facing career change, chronic illness, body image, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD.
Her goal is to help people develop skills they can use independently over time. Sessions focus on practical strategies, clearer communication, and small behavior changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Rachelle studies each person's situation and works with them to find a path forward.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape how people connect today and helps identify patterns that lead to anxiety or distance. It often focuses on building more reliable emotional connection and understanding how past hurts affect present reactions.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s own goals and experience, with the therapist providing attuned listening and support. This approach helps people find their own answers and build confidence in their decision making.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and depression. It includes practical exercises people can practice between sessions to reduce distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That can mean mixing approaches or trying different strategies until something clicks.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing skill practice between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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