About Rachael
Rachael Cutts helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with major life changes, parenting strain, grief, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Rachael works with adults who want clearer direction and more balance in day-to-day life.
Rachael approaches sessions in a straightforward, respectful way. She listens first and asks questions that help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Then she offers practical tools to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with sleep, eating struggles, anger, or workplace stress, and they leave with manageable steps to practice. Her background includes 18 years of professional experience in counseling and related work in Illinois. She holds an IL LCPC, which is the credential noted for clinical practice in the state.
That experience has included helping people with addiction, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, and caregiver stress. Rachael uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and action, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and increase flexibility, and mindfulness to build calm and focus.
She also uses client-centered and existential ideas to keep the work grounded in each person’s values and choices. Sessions are collaborative. Rachael frames goals together with each person and adjusts plans as progress is made.
She aims for clear, doable steps rather than overwhelming homework, helping people move toward the life they want.
How chosen approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps aligned with those values. It can help when someone feels stuck by fear, avoidance, or lack of motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and teaches clear skills to change both. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and behavior changes. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which supports stress, anger, and sleep concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to concerns, goals, and daily routines, then recommend techniques to try. That plan is flexible and adjusted over time so the person remains an active partner in shaping therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, quick coaching, or checking in between longer sessions. These options give practical flexibility for scheduling, follow-up, and steady progress from wherever someone is located in Illinois.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English