Raelene Faught, LCPC

Raelene Faught is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She frames therapy as a way to heal from past hurts and move toward healthier choices. Raelene emphasizes practical change and everyday habits that lead to better relationships and day-to-day functioning.

She listens with a respectful, person-centered stance and treats each client as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on what is most pressing for the person sitting in the room, whether that is anxiety, grief, parenting strain, or recovery from trauma. Raelene helps people notice patterns in thoughts and habits and practice different ways of responding.

Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-based thinking. That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and habits, while also helping people test and change unhelpful thought patterns. She uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to set achievable goals and encourage steady progress.

In practical terms, Raelene supports people working through career stress, intimacy issues, substance concerns, and identity questions. She also addresses family-of-origin problems, adoption and foster care matters, and first responder stress. Her work often includes coping strategies for anger, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Raelene aims to make starting therapy straightforward and collaborative. She invites clients to share their goals and helps them develop small, doable steps toward those goals. Her tone is direct, warm, and geared toward building everyday habits that support lasting change.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Raelene uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques in her work. Attachment-based thinking looks at how close relationships shape patterns of feeling and behavior, which can help when relationship trust or intimacy is strained. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing and testing thoughts and everyday habits, which helps with anxiety, depression, and changing unhelpful routines.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that match those needs. Over a few sessions she and the client check what helps and adjust the plan so it fits day-to-day life.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy schedule easier and reduce travel time. It also lets sessions be shorter or more flexible when needed, and can allow people to connect from different locations, including international settings. Raelene aims to adapt her methods to suit how a person prefers to meet and how they want to work on thoughts and everyday habits.