About Raelene
Raelene Faught is a licensed clinician in Illinois with 14 years of experience helping people move past hurts and make healthier choices. She frames therapy as a partnership and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Her approach centers on practical steps people can use right away.
She commonly works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and stress. Raelene also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, grief, and challenges tied to trauma or attachment.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how life transitions affect mood and behavior. Raelene blends person-centered listening with evidence-informed tools. That can look like learning new thinking patterns, practicing different ways of relating, or trying short exercises between sessions.
She aims for clear, doable strategies rather than long explanations. Her work includes addressing family of origin problems, abandonment and adoption dynamics, codependency, body image, and forgiveness. She also supports people facing first responder strain, compassion fatigue, or dissociation after traumatic events.
Sessions focus on what you want to change and on skills to get there. People who choose her often want a steady, respectful guide who listens and offers concrete steps. She helps clients set realistic goals and checks in on progress.
The goal is better coping, clearer choices, and stronger everyday relationships.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship patterns learn new ways to connect. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and emphasizes being heard and respected; this approach helps people find their own answers and build self-trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches straightforward skills for managing anxiety, depression, and mood swings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each person to identify goals and test methods that fit their needs and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to a single method up front.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, childcare, or travel schedules while staying connected with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor 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