Raelene Faught
Practical, trauma-aware counseling for everyday life
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Raelene
Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 14 years of practice in Illinois. She focuses on helping people recover from painful experiences and make healthier choices in relationships and daily life. Her work often addresses anxiety, trauma, parenting, and life transitions.
Raelene emphasizes practical steps and clear goals so progress feels tangible. She treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the client needs.
Background and approach
Raelene combines a human-centered style with trauma-aware care and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide change. In therapy she helps clients name patterns, try new ways of coping, and practice different responses. She uses hands-on strategies alongside compassionate listening.
This mix aims to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. Her practice includes support for a wide range of concerns like stress, grief, addiction, body image, attachment issues, and relationship difficulties. She also works with people facing complex situations such as adoption and foster care, domestic violence, or first responder stress.
Raelene speaks English and accepts international clients. She frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on concrete steps and steady progress, rather than quick fixes. She encourages prospective clients to choose care that fits their needs and values.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Raelene commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps rebuild safer ways of relating. This approach can be useful for people who notice repeated relationship struggles or attachment wounds.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, a practical method that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Raelene collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques as progress unfolds.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. These options let people keep continuity of care during life changes, travel, or when in-person visits are difficult. The formats also support different ways of connecting, whether someone prefers spoken conversation or written check-ins between sessions.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point