About Rachael
Rachael Finstuen is a licensed professional counselor clinician (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota with seven years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Rachael focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She approaches work with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a fixed formula. That means conversations and goals change as progress is made.
Background and approach
Rachael has supported people facing big life transitions and problems tied to attachment, abandonment, and family of origin issues. She also addresses body image, codependency, feelings of isolation, impulsivity, guilt, shame, and struggles that relate to adoption or foster care. Her practice emphasizes clear, down-to-earth talk and useful skills you can try between sessions.
People leave with concrete ways to manage anxiety, cope with change, and rebuild self-worth. Rachael adapts pacing and tools to fit how someone prefers to work. Many clients appreciate short, focused sessions for immediate concerns alongside longer work for deeper issues.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and communication styles. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Rachael aims to make starting easier and more approachable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many of Rachaels methods focus on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach concrete skills. One common approach emphasizes anxiety management skills such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. These techniques help when anxiety and stress interfere with work or family life.Another area targets trauma-informed care with a gentle, step-by-step process. This involves pacing conversations about difficult events, building coping strategies first, and then working toward making painful memories feel less overwhelming. That approach is often helpful for people dealing with abuse or strong emotional reactions tied to past experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to test methods, adjust pace, and pick tools that match their goals and preferences. Clients help shape what is tried and when to shift focus.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works well for ongoing brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to choose how to communicate as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English