About Rachel
Dr. Rachel Kinison brings two decades of counseling experience to her work, offering practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and a wide range of life challenges.
Background and approach
She holds a doctorate in Pastoral Community Counseling and a master’s degree in Counseling, and she is licensed as an Illinois LCPC and a Florida LMHC. Rachel emphasizes helping clients build concrete coping skills and restore daily functioning through tailored interventions.
Her clinical background includes community counseling, behavioral health services in a hospital setting, and work within adult probation programs, with experience leading individual and group therapy. She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-informed methods, while drawing from Emotionally-Focused and Narrative techniques as needed.
Rachel also offers relaxation skills and other practical tools that aim to shift thoughts and behaviors in manageable, positive ways. Rachel manages several health conditions herself and says those experiences inform her compassionate, down-to-earth approach.
She practices from Illinois, provides services in English, and accepts international clients. Her licenses are IL LCPC 180.007037 and FL LMHC MH16436.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Dr. Rachel Kinison commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. She also integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of traumatic experiences, using structured strategies to process memories and build coping skills.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Rachel works with clients to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences, then adapts interventions so they feel like a good fit rather than a prescribed formula. This partnership helps clients experiment with techniques and find what supports their progress.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, continue care across distances, and use different communication styles for therapy work. Licensed professionals can combine these formats with evidence-based approaches to support steady, practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English