About Rachelle
Rachelle Belott Filipiak uses a blend of approaches that center on relationships and practical skills to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin and draws on five years of clinical experience. Rachelle writes plainly and focuses on concrete steps that make daily life easier for people feeling overwhelmed.
Her background includes work in a domestic violence shelter for women, a college counseling center, a medium-security correctional facility for men, and outpatient mental health settings.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. She mixes attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. In sessions she helps people identify barriers, shift unhelpful thoughts, and try new behaviors.
She also supports parents coping with the strain of raising children and people facing grief, addictions, body image concerns, or identity questions. Rachelle uses short, practical exercises alongside deeper conversations about patterns and relationships. She sees many concerns related to family background, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism spectrum traits, and blended family challenges.
Other focused areas include chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. Her work aims to give people tools they can use long after therapy ends. Rachelle offers therapy in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She describes therapy as a collaborative process that helps people regain confidence and reduce distress.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships and early bonds shape current patterns. In online sessions this approach looks at how people connect, react to closeness, and can form healthier ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors through small experiments and homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems by giving concrete steps to change how people feel and act. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses that drive relationship patterns and personal distress; it helps people name emotions and learn new ways to respond.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals, preferences, and what feels useful in the first few sessions. That process can include trying small techniques from different approaches and focusing on what produces relief and forward movement.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice new interaction styles. Phone sessions remove the need for a camera and can be a simpler check-in when time or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to touch base between sessions, use short written exercises, or get support when scheduling is tight. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while still working on attachment patterns, thought habits, and emotional skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English