Rachael Cutts
Supportive counseling for life and family challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachael
Rachael Cutts is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 18 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports those facing relationship challenges, parenting questions, and changes that come with major life transitions.
Her style treats each person as the expert on their own life and focuses on building practical strengths. In sessions she listens with warmth and curiosity. She uses straightforward conversation to uncover what is getting in the way and what already works for the client.
Background and approach
Expect clear, step-by-step ideas you can try between meetings. She emphasizes practical skills for coping, managing emotions, and improving communication. Rachael draws on a range of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods.
She blends these to match a person’s needs rather than sticking to one single method. Mindfulness practices are added when they fit the goals. Her work covers many concerns like self-esteem, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with career stress, sleep and eating challenges, and blended family or attachment issues. This breadth comes from nearly two decades of varied clinical experience. Rachael aims to make the first steps simple and manageable.
She offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence while helping clients try new ways of coping. The focus is on small, realistic changes that lead to more stability and satisfaction over time.
Therapeutic approaches in online sessions
Rachael often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter even when feelings are difficult. It helps people move toward a life they value rather than getting stuck trying to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT provides concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-centered methods guide the work as well, with the therapist following the client’s lead and prioritizing their perspective.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. This collaborative approach lets the plan change as needs evolve.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine. Clients can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what feels most convenient. These options support continuity of care and allow for flexible scheduling while using the therapeutic tools described above.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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