About Raelene
Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She frames therapy as practical help for people who want to heal from painful experiences and make healthier choices. Her work often includes concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, and ADHD.
She writes plainly and treats clients as the experts on their own lives. Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through what matters most.
Background and approach
Raelene listens for patterns in relationships and behavior, then helps people test small, doable changes. Sessions focus on skills that reduce stress, steady mood, and ease daily tasks. Her background blends humanistic values with cognitive behavior strategies.
That means she pays attention to feelings and life stories while also teaching practical tools for thinking and behavior. She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationship history shapes current problems. Raelene works with people coping with grief, addictions, identity and intimacy struggles, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and family of origin problems. When trauma is part of the picture, she moves at a pace that matches a person’s needs. Therapy with her tends to be goal-focused yet flexible.
She offers motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps to help people decide what matters, set achievable goals, and track small wins. Her style suits people who want straightforward guidance and practical change.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns. In online sessions she helps people notice how past bonds shape trust, closeness, and conflict, then practices new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying. Client-centered work centers the person in the room and values their perspective. In teletherapy this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting feelings and priorities so goals emerge from what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include homework, short skills practice, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety or mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will help you weigh what fits your needs and preferences and try different strategies when needed. That collaborative process lets goals and methods shift as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, brief coaching, and ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to work therapy into a busy life and to try methods that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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