About Rae
Rae Linkous helps people feeling stuck by focusing on practical steps and honest conversation. She speaks plainly and challenges clients to face the hardest parts of their lives. Rae emphasizes personal strength and steady progress for people facing trauma, family conflict, or major life changes.
Rae uses clear explanations to show how the brain responds to stress and trauma. She blends talk therapy with techniques that help the body and mind settle.
How Rae works
Sessions often involve learning new ways to manage anger, mood shifts, or upsetting thoughts so daily life becomes easier. Her background includes work in a domestic violence shelter and therapeutic day counseling in schools. She spent seven years in residential treatment and a year in outpatient settings, working with complex trauma and self-harm concerns.
Rae now provides outpatient therapy in Virginia. Rae holds a Master of Education in Human Services and Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College and a Bachelor of Science in pre-med biology, chemistry, and psychology from Bluefield College. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with licenses in Tennessee and Virginia.
Her approach draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Rae aims to match methods to each person’s needs rather than use a single method for everyone.
Rae lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Rae works with
The areas below are the ones Rae selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Rae uses Client-Centered Therapy to put the person’s goals and experience at the center of each session. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people make choices that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches specific skills to reduce distress and improve mood and behavior.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Rae will talk with each person about their needs and goals, and then recommend techniques to try. If an approach does not feel helpful, she adjusts the plan so work matches what the person wants to accomplish.
Online therapy with Rae is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face work and teaching skills, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or need less bandwidth, and live chat or texting work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people with different schedules and needs.
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