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Online therapist

Rachel LaDuke

Calm, practical support for stressful seasons

Credentials
LPC
Experience
10 years
Licensed in
Colorado
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Rachel

Rachel LaDuke is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 10 years of clinical experience. She helps adults and teens who are coping with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or life transitions. Her approach centers on practical steps and steady support rather than labels or judgment.

Rachel works with concerns like low self-esteem, motivation struggles, anger, and depression. She also supports people facing divorce or separation, domestic violence aftermath, infidelity, jealousy, postpartum depression, and workplace stress.

Background and approach

Her background includes a decade of hands-on practice helping people find manageable ways forward. In sessions she treats clients as the experts on their own lives. She focuses on building on strengths and using those strengths to tackle problems.

Conversations are direct and grounded, aimed at real changes you can use day to day. Rachel emphasizes practical tools and steady encouragement. She helps clients set small goals, try different strategies, and track what works.

Progress is measured by what feels better in daily life, not by fitting a single label. Many people come for help with parenting, family stress, and young adult issues. Rachel offers a supportive space for sorting priorities, restoring confidence, and learning new coping skills.

She aims to empower people to make choices that match their values and needs.

Therapeutic approaches and how online work fits

Rachel uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and clearer thinking. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments; this helps with anxiety, low mood, and stressful thinking. Another frequently used method centers on building concrete coping skills and small daily habits to improve mood and manage stress and anger.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to the client’s goals, tries out methods together, and adjusts based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work as a team to find techniques that fit daily life and personal values.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer remote options. Rachel provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into parenting routines, work days, or times of transition while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting struggles, low self-esteem, anger, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include divorce and separation, domestic violence, infidelity, postpartum depression, and related issues.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Sessions are practical and supportive. The therapist focuses on strengths, clear next steps, and skills people can use in daily life.
What is her professional background?
She has 10 years of professional work experience helping adults and teens with stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, and self-esteem concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
Rachel holds the LPC credential and is licensed in Colorado with license number CO LPC LPC.0013035.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and the subscription handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

Specialties and expertise

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Experience
10 years
Licensed
Colorado
Languages
English

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