About Racheal
Racheal Pluim-Bergmann is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship challenges. Her style is warm and practical and she aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable.
Racheal uses a mix of straightforward talk and hands-on strategies. She helps people name what is happening, try small changes, and practice new ways of coping.
How Racheal works
Sessions often include work on communication, self-esteem, and handling strong emotions. Her background includes long-term work with trauma, substance concerns, and mood challenges. That experience shapes a flexible approach that can include behavior-focused techniques and skills for managing distress.
She also brings tools for trauma processing when past events continue to cause trouble. Racheal pays attention to patterns that show up across areas of life, such as work stress, eating or sleeping problems, and trouble with closeness or boundaries. She supports people dealing with shame, guilt, abandonment, codependency, and commitment worries.
Practical goals might include reducing anxiety symptoms, improving sleep, or changing problematic coping habits. Therapy sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and goals. Racheal combines listening with concrete skill-building and collaborative planning.
She aims to leave people better able to navigate life changes and day-to-day stresses.
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What Racheal works with
The areas below are the ones Racheal selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting working relationship. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people set their own goals, which is useful for long-standing self-esteem and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which helps with anger, impulsivity, and emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can be adjusted over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging lets clients write about concerns between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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