Chicago Counseling is a powerful mental health resource to reach real and lasting personal, professional, and relationship success through therapy. We offer premium counseling services including individual counseling, mental health telehealth, online PTSD therapy, couples counseling, child and teen counseling, family counseling, and community education seminars. Even if you’re not located in the Chicago area, it’s easy to schedule a telemental health appointment with a Chicago Counseling telehealth therapist online, so you can get help without leaving your home.
Chicago Counseling is a private practice that focuses on work with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents. All of our therapists are trained in dealing with issues relating to mood, depression, anxiety, stress management and life transitions. They specialize in EMDR therapy. We provide a wide range of services and every therapist is trained, licensed and up to date with continuing education requirements.
Rachael is the Clinical Director of Chicago Counseling. She is a Board Certified, Licensed Clinical Therapist known globally for her work in mental health, creating dozens of innovative community programs, education seminars, and intervention optimization projects.
She specializes in the neurobiology-informed practice of trauma recovery, including the treatment of PTSD, anxiety, depression, self-injury, and relationship conflict. She works with all populations including adults, children, adolescents, and couples.
Additionally Rachael is a Provider Consultant and Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and is specialty trained in Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), PREPARE/ENRICH marital and premarital counseling, Sensate Focusing for sexual problems with couples.
My goal is to help you understand yourself deeply enough that old patterns stop making decisions for you. Good therapy should increase your freedom—not your dependence on therapy. Unlike many, my practice does not measure success by retention. We measure by change, outcomes, and ensuring it continues to feel productive.
Many clients stick with me for years to address issues as life evolves over time. Others come to accomplish short-term goals and periodically return as they discover new areas of growth. Either way, the underlying goal for all the work is to become empowered in relationships, career, and personal life.
I’ve chosen to practice with full independence, away from the use of AI, virtual platforms, and insurance. After reviewing research and recieving extensive, positive feedback from clients, I've also chosen to provide exclusively online therapy.
I am a board-certified psychotherapist and certified corporate director with over 20 years of experience, who believes that exceptional therapy is built on expertise, trust, and the freedom to make clinical decisions based solely on what serves you as the client.
Every aspect of the practice reflects a simple philosophy: when therapy is protected from unnecessary layers of bureaucracy, technology, and competing interests, both the therapeutic relationship and the work itself become stronger.