Racheal Pluim-Bergmann
Compassionate, practical support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Racheal
Racheal Pluim-Bergmann is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 12 years of experience in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, substance use, and other life disruptions. Her work is straightforward and practical, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Racheal centers sessions on what a person needs right now. She listens without judgment and helps clients set clear, attainable goals.
Background and approach
The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive, and she uses tools that people can put into practice between meetings. Her approach blends several evidence-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing offers a way to work through traumatic memories when they are holding someone back. Racheal also emphasizes mindfulness and a client-centered stance.
Mindfulness exercises support stress reduction and better sleep. The client-centered foundation keeps each plan tied to a person’s values and daily life. People seeking help with family and parenting concerns will find these issues among her areas of focus.
Sessions can include coaching around communication, boundaries, and coping during transitions. The overall aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and more workable routines. She practices in Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English.
Racheal uses a subscription model for sessions, which can be canceled at any time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy is about shaping sessions around what matters most to the person. In practice this means the therapist asks about priorities and adapts tools to fit daily routines and family life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with intense feelings and relationship conflicts.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about goals, try specific techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That back-and-forth helps find a combination of methods that fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from home, phone sessions can fit into busy days, and text-based messaging or live chat support brief check-ins and between-session coaching. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care during life changes, and allow licensed professionals to use the same therapeutic tools they would in person while accommodating different schedules.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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