About Rachael
Rachael Cutts is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 18 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She helps with life changes, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, grief, intimacy issues, and challenges tied to parenting and career. Rachael uses a calm, respectful approach and treats each person as the expert in their own story.
She focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
How Rachael works
Sessions aim to build coping tools and steady routines for sleeping, eating, and mood. Rachael draws on evidence-informed methods such as acceptance and commitment work, cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and client-centered listening to tailor support to each person's needs. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Conversations often include checking values, practicing new responses, and learning ways to notice unhelpful thinking patterns. Rachael has worked with people facing trauma, codependency, addiction, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and blended family concerns.
She also supports folks dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes helping people manage the emotional fallout of major life transitions and separation. Sessions are offered in English and take place through online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Rachael aims to make therapy practical and manageable for busy lives and shifting circumstances.
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What Rachael works with
The areas below are the ones Rachael selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening-first stance where the therapist supports the person's own insights and goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachael will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. That process may include trying techniques in sessions and adjusting them over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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