About Rochelle
Rochelle McGhee meets people where they are and helps them find clearer footing. She listens carefully and works with each person to set practical goals. Rochelle presents a calm, patient style and focuses on skills people can use between sessions.
Rochelle holds an IL LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She brings 18 years of experience in counseling people with mood and stress-related concerns. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, panic attacks, and problems with self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and dialectical strategies. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, experiment with different behaviors, and practice simple skills for managing strong emotions. Mindfulness practices are often part of building attention and reducing reactivity.
Rochelle also draws on motivational and solution-focused ideas to help people find what matters and take small, manageable steps. She has supported people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and relationship or family conflict. Communication problems, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, loneliness, and struggles with forgiveness are additional areas she addresses.
Rochelle aims to make therapy a cooperative effort so each person leaves with tools they can use in daily life.
Online approaches that teach practical skills
Rochelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas in online sessions. CBT helps people notice patterns of thought that feed anxiety or low mood and then try different behaviors to shift those patterns. DBT focuses on building a toolbox of skills - like emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - that help in high-stress moments.She often includes mindfulness practices to help people steady attention and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness here means short exercises to bring awareness to the present moment and calm strong feelings. Rochelle treats finding the right approach as a team effort and will work with each person to decide which combination of techniques fits their needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and role play. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when video would be difficult. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when scheduling needs more flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue skill-building between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English