About Rachel
Rachel Bertrand is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois who works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, trauma, identity questions, and challenges in relationships and family life.
Background and approach
She offers a supportive, strengths-focused approach aimed at helping clients build self-love, clarify life purpose, and improve communication and coping during major life changes. With seven years of professional experience, she integrates several evidence-based methods to tailor care to each person’s needs.
Her work often addresses areas such as parenting concerns, body image and eating issues, gender dysphoria and LGBT-related concerns, attachment and abandonment themes, and challenges like commitment or control issues. Rachel emphasizes a collaborative therapeutic relationship that centers the client’s values while teaching practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful awareness.
She frames growth as a step-by-step process and guides clients toward sustainable change through empathy, skill-building, and focused therapeutic strategies.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward a meaningful life while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering practical strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and symptom-driven interference. Both approaches are well suited to working through mood challenges, stress, relationship patterns, and body image concerns in an online format.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel works with clients to explore which methods fit their needs and goals, adjusting techniques over time so the work aligns with personal preferences and real-life objectives. The therapist frames treatment as a partnership where values, strengths, and practical skill-building guide each plan.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer remote access to care. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of work through transitions or spacing sessions to fit life demands, while still engaging in structured therapeutic exercises, mindfulness practice, and skills coaching with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English