Rachelle Belott Filipiak
Compassionate, practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Rachelle
Rachelle Belott Filipiak uses an interpersonal, client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She brings five years of clinical experience and practical skill to sessions. Rachelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, who trained at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
She speaks plainly and focuses on clear steps people can take to feel better. Rachelle learned her skills in a variety of settings. She worked at a domestic violence shelter for women, at a college counseling center, and in a medium-security correctional facility for men.
Background and approach
She has also provided outpatient mental health services to people with a wide range of concerns. Those roles shaped her ability to respond to trauma, stress, and complex life changes. Her style blends Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when helpful.
Sessions aim to identify obstacles and practice new thoughts and behaviors. Rachelle helps people develop skills they can use on their own over time. She often supports people with parenting questions, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction issues, and ADHD-related concerns.
She also addresses adoption and foster care topics, attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication problems. Rachelle practices in Wisconsin and offers services in English. She works with adults and uses straightforward talk, practical exercises, and collaborative planning to help people cope and move forward.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Rachelle uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. This approach helps when trust, connection, or attachment wounds affect parenting, relationships, or self-worth.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and practical coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rachelle will talk with each person about goals and try methods that match those needs, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist collaborate to pick tools that feel useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions. Rachelle uses these formats to teach skills, practice new ways of relating, and check in on progress in a flexible way.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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