About Raelene
Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She frames therapy as a space to heal from hurts and make healthier choices. Her work focuses on helping people notice what they need and move toward those goals.
She speaks English and sees clients internationally by online formats. Raelene commonly helps people coping with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, stress, grief, and life transitions. She also supports concerns around parenting, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, eating and body-image struggles, and issues tied to trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Additional areas she addresses include attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends somatic awareness, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered care with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational interviewing tools. That means she pays attention to how the body and relationships affect feelings, while also using practical strategies to try different ways of thinking and behaving.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Raelene describes people as the experts on their own lives, and she aims to help them learn, heal, and change. Many clients come to her wanting clearer communication, better coping skills, or help processing trauma and loss.
She invites people to bring their real stories and decides together what work makes sense. To begin, clients follow a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions online. Costs vary based on location and the subscription model used, which can be canceled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and use simple body-based awareness to calm or shift uncomfortable states. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and ongoing stress by linking bodily signals to emotions and actions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react in certain ways in relationships and practices new ways of connecting and communicating.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and trusting the person as the expert on their life. The therapist offers support and reflection while clients decide what changes to try.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort. That choice can shift over time as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, continue work during moves or travel, and use shorter check-ins when helpful. Many people find online sessions a practical way to stay consistent with their therapeutic goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- 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