About Rachel
Rachel Thornburg is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, phobias, and relationship challenges. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, ADHD, depression, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Rachel also supports people dealing with parenting strain, bipolar mood issues, and life transitions.
Her style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people try small, manageable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Conversation, skill practice, and short-term plans are common parts of her approach. Rachel uses a few different therapy methods depending on the situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and perspective. Emotionally-Focused tools are used when relationship patterns and attachment issues come up. In session she will talk through coping skills for panic, work on communication strategies, and create plans for managing cravings or mood shifts.
She pays attention to identity-related concerns like gender dysphoria and LGBT issues, and to specific focus areas such as phobias, body image, and codependency. Rachel has five years of clinical experience as an LPC. She offers work by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to provide flexible options.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, fills out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedules based on the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s goals and viewpoint, helping the therapist follow what matters most to the client and adjust work accordingly. This approach is useful when someone wants a collaborative space to make sense of anxiety, grief, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior. CBT is often used for panic, phobias, depression, and anxiety because it includes clear exercises and homework that can be done between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change the ways they respond in close relationships and when strong emotions arise. It can be helpful when communication problems, codependency, or attachment wounds are part of the concern.
Rachel will work together with each person to find the best mix of approaches for their situation. Figuring out what fits happens in early sessions through conversation about goals, past experiences, and how someone prefers to work. That collaborative process helps guide whether more CBT skills, emotion-focused exploration, or a client-centered pace is best.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging fit brief check-ins, progress notes, or when someone needs a flexible way to connect between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family responsibilities, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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