About Raylene
Raylene Franklin helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. She supports those struggling with self-esteem, parenting strain, career transitions, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Raylene is based in Montana and brings two decades of social work experience to her practice.
She uses a person-centered style that keeps conversations practical and straightforward. Sessions focus on clear goals, coping strategies, and building skills that can be used day to day.
How Raylene works
Raylene draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and on solution-focused methods to create small, achievable plans. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when emotions and relationships need attention, and motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change. Her approach is calm and coach-like, aiming to meet people where they are and move forward together.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. With twenty years as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW, Raylene has worked in settings that include addiction care and hospice support. That background informs how she helps people manage stress, caregiver strain, and end-of-life concerns.
She pays special attention to practical steps that ease daily life. People who meet with Raylene can expect clear options and simple tools to try between sessions. She encourages steady progress through short-term goals and regular check-ins.
Her aim is to help clients regain confidence and take back control of their routines and plans.
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What Raylene works with
The areas below are the ones Raylene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
How Raylene’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s point of view. In online sessions this means conversations that follow what matters most to the client and adapt to their pace and needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by pairing discussion with practical exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Raylene will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts methods as progress is made so the approach fits the person rather than the person fitting a single technique.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are easy when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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