About Raelene
Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people heal from hurts and make healthier choices in relationships and daily life. Her work is practical and straightforward, aimed at usable change rather than jargon.
Her approach starts by listening and treating each person as the expert on their life. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral ideas to help people understand patterns and try new ways of coping.
How Raelene works
Attachment-based methods are used when relationships and connection are driving concerns. Raelene has worked with a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strains, substance and behavioral addictions, and stress. She also addresses concerns such as body image, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and compassion fatigue.
She brings 14 years of experience to these topics. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and practical steps. That might include identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing small behavioral changes, or mapping how past attachments affect present relationships.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to help people find direction and momentum. People who choose Raelene often want straightforward help for real-life problems. She works in English and offers online formats.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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What Raelene works with
The areas below are the ones Raelene 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on relationships and goals
Raelene uses attachment-based work to look at how early connections shape current relationships. That approach helps when trust, closeness, boundaries, or repeated relationship patterns cause pain. Client-centered therapy is another pillar of her practice - it centers on the person’s own goals and experience and involves listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and to test new, practical ways of coping.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most useful for their goals and preferences. That plan can change over time as needs shift or progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care adaptable to daily life. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, check-ins between sessions, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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