About Rachelle
Rachelle Belott Filipiak is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who uses an interpersonal and practical approach to therapy. She combines clear problem-solving with emotional support so people feel heard and guided toward change. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions.
She draws on methods from Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, and Cognitive Behavioral approaches among others. That mix helps her address relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues like addiction or depression.
Background and approach
Rachelle emphasizes small, doable steps that reduce emotional pain and build coping skills. Her background includes work in a domestic violence shelter for women, a college counseling center, a medium-security correctional facility for men, and outpatient mental health services. Those settings shaped her ability to meet people in difficult moments and adapt techniques to different needs.
In sessions she focuses on identifying obstacles, changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and strengthening emotional bonds where they matter. She wants people to leave therapy with practical tools and more confidence in handling future challenges. Rachelle has five years of clinical experience and practices in Wisconsin as an LPC.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options and works with people across a wide range of concerns, including phobias and ADHD. Rachelle will collaborate with each person to tailor the pace and methods to their goals.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy in Rachelle's work emphasizes how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. She uses this perspective to help people recognize patterns in close relationships and to practice new ways of connecting that reduce conflict and distress.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the person says. That approach helps people feel understood and encourages them to find their own answers, useful for issues like self-esteem, career choices, or parenting stress.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems active. With CBT, sessions include practical exercises and small homework tasks to change unhelpful thinking and build better coping skills for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Rachelle will work collaboratively to match methods to goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds. She involves clients in choosing strategies that feel realistic and doable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can make scheduling easier and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and people who prefer typed communication. These formats provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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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