About Rell
Rell Spickerman is a Licensed Master Social Worker with forty years of combined experience in ministry and mental health care. He brings both pastoral experience and counseling skills to sessions. He focuses on practical problem solving and helping people take small, manageable steps forward.
He has long been involved with LGBT issues and named that as an important area of his work. He also offers support around grief, end-of-life concerns, and bereavement from his hospice chaplain experience.
Background and approach
Career planning and life-work transitions are part of his background as well. Rell uses a straightforward, down-to-earth style in sessions. He listens without judgment and uses humor to lower resistance to change.
He describes himself as a guide rather than a sage and aims for solutions that are practical and useful in daily life. His clinical approach combines cognitive methods with narrative and solution-focused ideas. This means conversations often include looking at unhelpful thinking, identifying workable next steps, and reworking personal stories to support change.
He also notes experience with anger management and some brief hypnotherapy techniques. Rell works from Michigan and communicates in English. People who prefer a calm, pragmatic counselor who draws on long experience may find his approach helpful when dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, or life transitions.
How Rell's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-driven action. It supports people who feel stuck by encouraging small steps toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. It is often useful for stress, anger, and anxiety when people want practical tools. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so clients feel heard and can explore solutions at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they try strategies, see what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay focused and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send short updates or work through brief concerns between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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